Bracing for the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the company adds more steps for buyers of political ads. Disinformation experts aren’t sure it is enough. Facebook Tightens Rules on Verifying Political Advertisers Source: NY Times Tech
Read MorePhishing is a method of trying to gather personal information using deceptive e-mails and websites. Here’s what you need to know about this increasingly sophisticated form of cyberattack. What is phishing? Learn how this attack works Source: Security
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube’s difficult summer rolls on. Recent stories have revealed that the company might be accidentally generating video playlists for pedophiles; the Federal Trade Commission is investigating the site’s targeting of ads toward children; and the New York Times linked the site’s popularity to the rise of right-wing extremism
Read More{$inline_image}Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Stephen Hawking used to say: Crack open this tasty lobster! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, August 27 2019,
Read MoreNew-gadget season is almost here, but our columnist has concluded, after testing hundreds of gizmos over the years, that it pays to wait. The Joys of Being a Late Tech Adopter Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreAn early render of the Pixel 4 was tweeted by Google back in June. | Image: Google Photos of what could be Google’s upcoming Pixel 4 have leaked via Telegram, XDA-Developers is reporting. The images appear to show a device that’s consistent with the official pics and information that’s been released about the phone by
Read MoreAnother Google service bites the dust, and this time it’s Google Hire. The company said it’ll shut down the job tracking system by next year. Hire helped HR departments keep track of and communicate with candidates. This tool was a product in development at Bebop, a startup Google acquired for $380 million in 2015. Its
Read MoreHydraulic components are the industrial power transmission version of LEGO. Pumps, cylinders, valves – pretty much everything is standardized, and fitting out a working system is a matter of picking the right parts and just plumbing everything together. That’s fine if you want to build an excavator or a dump truck, but what if you want
Read MoreThe supposedly independent group of companies tasked with overseeing the delivery of Facebook‘s “cryptocurrency” Libra has announced a public bug bounty. In a blog post yesterday, the Libra association disclosed that its offering up to $10,000 to security researchers that find flaws and help tune up the Libra blockchain. The bug bounty was first opened
Read MoreWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. A few days ago, I was baffled to see an obviously scammy event pop up in my Google calendar: I’d won $2,338 in some ‘annual competition.’ I had no idea
Read MoreAnother day, another instance of Android malware found on the Google Play app store. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab said they found an app with 100 million downloads that housed a malicious module that then pushed ads or downloaded apps surreptitiously onto compromised Android devices. The malicious component was found by the researchers after they were alerted
Read MoreBloomberg: German data protection authority is probing Facebook over transcribing audio of its users, adding to an investigation into Google’s speech assistant — – Social network is facing intense regulatory scrutiny in Europe — Speech recognition forms new front for tech privacy probes German data protection authority is probing Facebook over transcribing audio of its
Read MoreCanon just announced two new cameras with 32.5-megapixel crop sensors: the 90D and the M6 Mark II. Both snappers share the same features with differences in design. While the 90D carries on with Canon’s familiar D-series body design, the M6 Mark II has a mirrorless body with a 3-inch touch screen and no opticalviewfinder. The 32.5-megapixel
Read MoreAn uninterruptible power supply (UPS) isn’t something solely to have hooked up to your desktop PC. Your Raspberry Pi SBC might also benefit from it. Yet the available options aren’t too great, or are too expensive. This leads folk including [Joachim Baumann] to modify cheerfully cheap Chinese UPS HAT boards such as the Geekworm UPS
Read MoreJames Cameron, Christopher Nolan and more have a magic button. How to fix your bad TV settings, according to Hollywood's biggest directors – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCanon has announced two new enthusiast-grade cameras that are similar in capability but very different in form. Whether you’d get along better with the EOS 90D or the EOS M6 Mark II will entirely depend on your feelings about the never-ending DSLR-versus-mirrorless debate. Both cameras have a new 32.5-megapixel APS-C image sensor, a DIGIC 8
Read MoreNathaniel Popper / New York Times: Sources: when Telegram raised $1.7B in 2018, it told investors it will deliver Gram by Oct. 31, 2019, or give back the money, and now says it is still on track — While Facebook’s big cryptocurrency plans have hit a wall with regulators, another big social network, Telegram, is
Read MoreNetflix still ships a million discs each week. Netflix ships milestone 5 billionth disc – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWWE has some competition. AEW All Out: Start time, how to watch, match card, B/R Live and Fite TV – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt wasn’t that long ago when hard drives that boasted a terabyte of capacity were novel. But impressive though the tera- prefix is, beyond that is peta and even further is exa — as in petabyte and exabyte. A common i7 CPU currently clocks in at about 60 gigaflops (floating point operations per second). Respectable,
Read MoreGreg Kumparak / TechCrunch: Google to shut down Google Hire, a job application tracking system for small to medium sized businesses it launched two years ago, in September 2020 — Add another one to the Google Cemetery. — Google has disclosed that it will shut down Google Hire, the job application tracking system it launched
Read MoreBut no licenses have yet been issued, Reuters reports. US reportedly receives 130-plus requests for Huawei licenses – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMaria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Cisco to buy customer analytics startup CloudCherry, which has raised $16M in venture funding from Cisco, Microsoft, and others — Though best known for its networking and data center gear, Cisco Systems Inc. is also a major player in the contact center technology business. Cisco to buy customer analytics startup CloudCherry,
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Dutch data protection agency says it found that Windows 10 may still be unlawfully collecting user data, refers Microsoft to its EU privacy regulator in Ireland — The Dutch data protection agency has asked Microsoft’s lead privacy regulator in Europe to investigate ongoing concerns it has attached to how Windows 10
Read MoreReuters: Sources: US Commerce Department has received 130+ applications from companies for licenses to sell US goods to Huawei; none of the licenses have been granted — WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department has received more than 130 applications from companies for licenses … Sources: US Commerce Department has received 130+ applications from companies
Read More
