Giridhari Venkatadri, Piotr Sapiezynski, and Alan Mislove of Northeastern University, along with Elena Lucherini of Princeton University, did a series of tests that involved handing contact information over to Facebook for a group of test accounts in different ways and then seeing whether that information could be used by an advertiser. They came up with […]

Researchers at Northeastern University conducted half a million data traffic testsacross 161 countries to help determine which ISPs routinely hamstring streaming performance. They found that carriers consistently apply arbitrary restrictions on video streaming that have nothing to do with managing network load.

Successful completion of Google’s IT certificate could earn Northeastern students up to 12 credits in the university’s College of Professional Studies, saving $6,000 in tuition.

On Wednesday, Gizmodo reporter Kashmir Hill wrote that she successfully targeted an ad to Northeastern University computer science professor Alan Mislove using his office landline number, which he never provided to Facebook. Facebook and Instagram allow advertisers to upload lists of phone numbers or email addresses to target with ads as part of its “custom audiences” feature; the social network can […]

There still isn’t a comprehensive look at how climate change will impact the Mississippi River, which is “mind-boggling,” said Samuel Muñoz, the study’s lead author and a professor at the College of Engineering at Northeastern University.

The company may also rely on information that consumers may not be aware is being tapped to sell ads, such as security phone numbers and  “shadow information” gleaned about you from friends’ accounts, Gizmodo reports. Alan Mislove of Northeastern University and other researchers discovered that numbers provided to Facebook in two-factor authentication became targeted by advertisers […]

Christine Blasey Ford has – after weeks of wondering how and if it would happen – appeared before the US Senate’s Judiciary Committee giving her account of the alleged sexual assaulted she says was committed on her by President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the 1980s. Daniel Medwed is a Professor of Law and […]

According to Laura Dudley, a clinical professor and behavior analyst at Northeastern University, Kavanaugh’s behavior during his opening remarks — from his apparent yelling to his furrowed brows — seemed to “reflect underlying anger.”

Facebook is sharing personally identifying information that you never submitted to the social network with its advertisers – and you can’t erase it from their records. That’s from a paper published by researchers at Northeastern University and Princeton University, who looked into how ad targeting works on Facebook.

“It’s incredible to see how much great stuff gets donated every year and how much waste can be reduced by shopping at the sale instead of taking a trip to Target,” senior Eva Gaufberg said of the Trash2Treasure sale at Northeastern University in Boston.

Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, said a federal judge might find in San Francisco’s favor. “If you got it before a judge, it’s anyone’s guess,” he said. “You can make a very reasonable argument that a health care facility of this sort is not something that was […]

Dagmar Sternad of Northeastern University in Boston, her postdoc Salah Bazzi, and their colleagues have turned to a different way of evaluating stability that’s applicable to transient motions like moving a cup of coffee from one point to another. Rather than analyzing perturbations about a steady-state closed orbit in phase space, they applied a method that […]