Most prominent among the victims: The UK’s National Health Service. Dozens of hospitals and medical centers had to be closed. Treatment was postponed, ambulances diverted. Appointments couldn’t be made because it was too dangerous. Medical workers had no access to important information. However, some security firms reported that most of the affected computers were in … Read more
Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales is creating Wikitribune, a news version of Wikipedia where he hopes news will be more fact-based than what he sees elsewhere. He will be hiring many journalists for the initial phase, and see how things develop from there. Wikitribune will not focus on doing original journalism. It will use the same … Read more
Info on money — revenues and expenses — at all levels of U.S. government is being made freely available in a new website by former Microsoft CEO and current L.A. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer. The website is USAFacts.org. Ballmer was not satisfied with the information available through web search. He said the project involved organization … Read more
Users of the sharing and discussion board Hacker News are this week discussing whether the recent TechCrunch Disrupt New York Hackathon team’s improvements to the ycombinater site are really improvements, but are generally impressed with the work. The team sought to boost the user experience of Hacker News by adding tags to posts in order … Read more
Now that Google is a sub-company inside Alphabet — which is run by founders Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin and Larry Page — Google is run by Sundar Pichai, and his earnings are up almost double from 2015. In 2016, he made $199.7m. $650k is his base pay, and $198.7m was a stock award. Google is reportedly … Read more