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Hacking games: The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has funded an organization called U.S. Cyber Games that will assemble a team of young people to compete in an international cybersecurity competition, the Washington Post reports. Modeled on competitive video gaming, the competition will include “king-of-the-hill-type games where one team tries to break into a network, …

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The power of privacy: Surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden warned that several governments across the globe, including the U.S., Russia, China, and the European Union, are trying to break encryption, CNBC reports. Speaking during the first Global Encryption Day, Snowden suggested that “privacy is power”. Privacy is “an insulating layer that allowed those of us who wield very little …

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Meta changes: Facebook has renamed itself Meta after several recent controversies, including its role in spreading misinformation and extremism online. The company says the name change is because it is refocusing on creating a metaverse, a virtual world using virtual and augmented reality. However, the rebranding also gives Facebook a potential “escape hatch” as it faces …

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