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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 11:00:00 +0000
Researchers are working to identify behavioral and neurological indicators that determine which lil puppers will grow into good bomb-sniffing doggos.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 13:00:00 +0000
Hacking back, Trump’s poor security hygiene and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 21:15:37 +0000
Michael Caputo is helping launch a video startup that involves a bunch of Russians. He’s also sending a Russian ballerina on tour. But that doesn’t make him a Putin stooge, he insists.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 16:18:48 +0000
The past month has seen one blockbuster revelation after another about how our mobile phone and broadband providers have been leaking highly sensitive customer information, including real-time location data and customer account details. In the wake of these consumer privacy debacles, many are left wondering who’s responsible for policing these industries? How exactly did we get to this point? What prospects are there for changes to address this national privacy crisis at the legislative and regulatory levels? These are some of the questions we’ll explore in this article.
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Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 08:34:00 -0700
Amazon has confirmed a report that one of its Echo devices recorded a family’s conversation and then messaged it to a random person on the family’s contact list, who is an employee of a family member.
But Amazon, in a statement emailed to Computerworld, confirmed every privacy advocate’s worst nightmare with its explanation: “Echo woke up due to a word in background conversation sounding like ‘Alexa.’ Then, the subsequent conversation was heard as a ‘send message’ request. At which point, Alexa said out loud ‘To whom?’ At which point, the background conversation was interpreted as a name in the customer’s contact list. Alexa then asked out loud, ‘[contact name], right?’ Alexa then interpreted background conversation as ‘right.’ As unlikely as this string of events is, we are evaluating options to make this case even less likely.”
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 12:28:00 -0700
Looks as if we have a solution for the Avast-related blue screens in Win10 1803 upgrades that I talked about earlier this week. Avast heavyweight Ondrej Vlcek chose his words carefully but threw lots of shade at Microsoft for the upgrade installer’s bug.
Posting on the Avast forum, Vlcek says:
Credit to Author: Wendy Torell| Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 20:20:00 +0000
Organizations like Open Compute Project (OCP) and Open19 have created open standards for alternatives to conventional server designs. These architectures redefine how power is converted and distributed within an IT… Read more »
The post 12V vs. 48V: The Rack Power Architecture Efficiency Calculator Illustrates Energy Savings of OCP-style PSUs appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 23:26:49 +0000
You should certainly understand the risks of having a smart speaker in your home, but there’s a perfectly good explanation for how that rogue message might have gotten sent.
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