…circa 2007. People also called numbers randomly in search of phone friends who might become romantically involved and eventually meet face to face. Persistent calls from unknown numbers became a…

Number of U.S. Presidents who were also painters: 4 Number of U.S. Presidential paintings released by hackers? 23 1 Number of U.S. Presidential nude self-portrait paintings released by hackers: 2…

…here. With name and badge number in hand, Anonymous tweeted a dox containing the officer’s name (Anthony Bologna), last known addresses, family members, phone number, and legal troubles. Because Bologna…

…refine, test, and iterate the idea, eventually leading to a commitment from the UN Refugee Agency to purchase a large number of units. As I learned more about the project,…

…often from cell phone signals, too; devices that were not as portable as expected, with godmothers carrying their phones in their hands, an obstacle that some have overcome by crafting…

…data-sets from the other big automotive and logistics companies, right down to the driver-data collected from people who wore court-ordered monitors: paroled felons, abusive parents under restraining orders, government employees….

…need for continually lower numbers means that these very numbers have become less meaty. On the one hand, not doing better than in the previous year means admitting failure. One…

…camera network was hacked and infected with ransomware that, city officials admitted two weeks later, prevented the city from digitally recording images from 80% of the cameras for three days…

…20 gigabytes in size, and not just from transactions. * The lottery expands, writes Borges, from merely contributing to the vicissitudes of human life to apportioning power: “I have been…

…number upon which the speaker’s technique is based, is a multiplier of a property. It is this practice of multiplication that allows the speaker to “translate from the individual survey…

…Along with colleagues, he developed a number of research projects focused on farmed wild birds: farm surveys to count the number of birds, investigations of how birds were marketed, and…

…decades of progress. Led by the Social Protection Unit at the World Bank shortly after its creation in 1996, a number of aid agencies began to move away from static…

…277). This lack of preparedness was especially alarming, he argued, since the world could expect an increasing number of epidemic emergencies due to a number of factors: growth in human…

…from the usual years to months, preparations have begun for large-scale studies in Ebola-affected countries to begin in January 2015. While logistical questions remain—ranging from the number of doses needed…

…from computer hacking, and provide two main explanations. First, these borrowings reflect a further step in the diffusion of metaphors, models, and machines from the computer sciences into the life…

…who in the public would care about an activist from the Middle East, unknown to most, being compromised by a crappy trojan (Wikipedia 2017d) bought from some dodgy website for…

…who sought to film, take pictures, or livestream from inside the restaurant; angry and harassing phone calls to Comet Ping Pong, other businesses implicated in the theory, and to individuals…

…everyone in India a unique number—or maybe two unique numbers—stored in supposedly safe databases whose purposes include everything from combatting corruption to delivering “services” to remaking the very composition of…

Small technologies of government now permeate the field of international aid. From micro-insurance, sin taxes, and cash transfers to solar lanterns, water filtration systems, and sanitation devices, examples proliferate across…

…(Theillaumas, interview 07/20/2011) Since traumatic events are rare, the psou also organizes simple “conversations”, which are scheduled after a phone call from a person who wants to talk about other…

…the tactic: the acquisition of digital documents from the voting machine company Diebold; and the publication of emails from the now-defunct energy giant Enron. Even if these materials were not…

In March 2016, federal wildlife officials faced a barrage of criticism from California politicians concerning the regulation of the state’s water system. Senator Dianne Feinstein and a group of Republican…

…and the limited number clinicians who saw first-hand the effects of DES, but the limited number of scientific publications published on the topic gained little interest. It was only intervention…

…human computers. To save the time and expense of hiring and managing large numbers of temporary workers, Amazon engineers instead developed a website through which people could work simultaneously from…

…is understood to be radically different than using hacked computers and the information from them to cause what are banally called “effects”—from breaking hard drives or centrifuges, to contaminating the…

…quantity of water it could provide. That quantity is calculated through an extraction rate, a number that defines the volume of water that can be extracted from an aquifer per…