Month: October 2020

Researchers find candidates and PACs are increasingly turning to influencers for the election as platforms like Facebook and Twitter clamp down on bots and ads (Arielle Pardes/Wired)

Arielle Pardes / Wired: Researchers find candidates and PACs are increasingly turning to influencers for the election as platforms like Facebook and Twitter clamp down on bots and ads  —  Platforms like Facebook and Google are sharing their plans to pause political ads around Election Day.  That’s won’t stop all paid campaigning. Researchers find candidates

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Crowd Funded Jumping Cubes

{$inline_image} The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently contributed their Int-Ball  technology to a Kickstarter campaign operated by the Japanese electronics manufacturer / distributor Bit Trade One (Japanese site). This technology is based on the Cubli project out of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), which we covered back in 2013. The Cubli-based technology has

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Researchers extract Intel's secret key for encrypting and decrypting security updates that patch vulnerabilities on its Goldmont architecture-based CPUs (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers extract Intel’s secret key for encrypting and decrypting security updates that patch vulnerabilities on its Goldmont architecture-based CPUs  —  Hackers can now reverse-engineer updates or write their own custom firmware.  —  Researchers have extracted the secret key … Researchers extract Intel's secret key for encrypting and decrypting security updates

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