VIENNA, 28 August 2017 – United States (US) President Donald Trump’s recent remarks on media are cause for deep concern, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir stated in a letter to Secretary of State H.E. Rex W. Tillerson.During a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, on 22 August 2017, the President accused the media of being “truly dishonest”, “fake”, “bad” and “crooked”, of “mak[ing] up stories” and deepening the divisions within the country.“I urge the United States administration to refrain from delivering such attacks on the media. The US President’s statements are deeply problematic in that they degrade the essential role the media plays in every democratic society, holding governments to account and offering a platform for a diversity of voices,” Désir said.

Daniel Kaye, a 29-year-old hacker known under the nicknames of BestBuy and Popopret, will appear in a UK court today to face hacking charges related to his activity as master of one of the biggest Mirai botnets ever assembled.Kaye, a UK citizen from the town of Egham, Surrey, had already pleaded guilty in a German court for infecting routers and IoT devices with the Mirai malware and using it to launch DDoS attacks.On July 28, a German court sentenced him to a suspended prison sentence of one year and eight months.Hacker will face similar charges in the UKFollowing legal procedures in Germany, the hacker was extradited back to his home country to face similar charges.

Google’s web-hostile AMP scheme makes copies of web pages, shrinks them, and serves them instead of the original when you click on a Google search result. It renders your content in non-standard HTML, and removes the original link to the article’s source. Whenever you share the page you’re reading, it forces you to share a the Google AMP URL instead of the original. Unless you’re using an iPhone, that is. In iOS 11, Mobile Safari strips AMP from any links you share. And iPhones running iOS 10 will load the non-AMP version (i.e. the original version) of a page if you press a link with 3D Touch.

One of the oldest and largest neo-nazi sites on the internet, the white supremacist chatroom Stormfront, has been thrown off the open web by its hosting provider.Stormfront has been described by the anti-hate group Southern Poverty Law Center as the “murder capital of the internet”. The group pointed out that “registered Stormfront users have been disproportionately responsible for some of the most lethal hate crimes and mass killings since the site was put up in 1995. In the past five years alone, Stormfront members have murdered close to 100 people.”As of Tuesday morning, Stormfront.org was unavailable, with the site’s domain registry recording that its hosting provider Network Solutions had issued a “hold” on the address.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O) said it will notify EU regulators on Tuesday on how it plans to ensure its search engine does not favour its own shopping service over rivals’.Google was hit with a record 2.4 billion euro ($2.9 billion) fine from the EU over the practice in June and has until midnight on Tuesday to come up with proposals to end the anti-competitive behaviour.The European Commission said on June 27 that the world’s most popular Internet search engine had abused its dominance in Europe to give prominent placements in searches to its own comparison shopping service and demote those of rivals.As well as ordering Google to come up with a solution, the Commission said the U.S. company must stop the practice by Sept. 28.

Google error disrupts corporate Japan’s web traffic – BBC News

Google has admitted that wide-spread connectivity issues in Japan were the result of a mistake by the tech giant.Web traffic intended for Japanese internet service providers was being sent to Google instead.Online banking, railway payment systems as well as gaming sites were among those affected.A spokesman said a ”network configuration error” only lasted for eight minutes on Friday but it took hours for some services to resume.Nintendo was among the companies who reported poor connectivity, according to the Japan Times, as well as the East Japan Railway Company.