Author: Tech Support

    • 11 ways to educate your consumers about malware, phishing or other cyberattacks

    While companies are quick to integrate new technologies to stay ahead of their competitors, every new technology also comes with risks. Malware, phishing and other cyberattacks are an all-too-common occurrence — especially following the implementation of newer technologies. To find out the most effective ways to educate consumers about the risks they can face from

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    • How Eva Galperin, who leads EFF's Threat Lab, is advocating for people affected by stalkerware, which gives a bad actor full access to another's device (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

    Andy Greenberg / Wired: How Eva Galperin, who leads EFF’s Threat Lab, is advocating for people affected by stalkerware, which gives a bad actor full access to another’s device  —  OVER THE LAST year, Eva Galperin says she’s learned the signs: the survivors of domestic abuse who come to her describing how their tormentors seem

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    • Google pilots a row of ads on the Android TV home screen of Sony smart TVs, NVIDIA Shield TV, others; users say they cannot disable the ads (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

    Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Google pilots a row of ads on the Android TV home screen of Sony smart TVs, NVIDIA Shield TV, others; users say they cannot disable the ads  —  Users are reportedly not enjoying Google’s “pilot program.”  —  Google is trying out a new “Pilot Program” that puts a row of

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    • Samsung says it expects Q1 operating income of $5.5B, down 60% YoY, its worst drop in more than four years, as chip prices fall and smartphone sales slow (Sam Kim/Bloomberg)

    Sam Kim / Bloomberg: Samsung says it expects Q1 operating income of $5.5B, down 60% YoY, its worst drop in more than four years, as chip prices fall and smartphone sales slow  —  – Chip buyers working through inventories, pushing prices down  — Sluggish smartphone demand also hurts bottom line at Samsung Samsung says it

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    • What the Fax?

    Every nation has its quirks, and it could be argued that the U.S. has more than its fair share, but what stands out the most to me – as a tech journalist who recently made the move across the pond – is that in many ways, the nation of Silicon Valley is still stuck in

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    Hiding Messages In Magnets

    Magnets have always been fun, particularly since the super-powerful neodymium type became readily available. You can stack them up, pull them apart, or, if you really want, use them for something practical. Now [Adric] has shown us a new use for them entirely – by writing hidden messages on them. It’s a remarkably simple hack,

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    • Bioware’s overworked Anthem developers aren’t alone, and that’s the problem

    We recently discovered a new perpetrator of the dreaded “crunch culture” of video game development — the legendary Bioware. When Kotaku‘s Jason Schreier wrote an article about the struggles during development of Anthem, the studio lashed out, before privately admitting that maybe it does have problems. The whole account is almost a microcosm of the problems

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    • Researchers developed algorithms that mimic the human brain (and the results don’t suck)

    A pair of researchers recently developed a method for successfully conducting unsupervised machine learning that closely mimics how scientists believe the human brain works. These biologically-feasible algorithms could provide an alternate path forward for the field of AI. IBM researcher Dmitry Krotov and John J. Hopfield, inventor of the associative neural network, developed a set

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    • Google says it is dissolving its week-old AI ethics board, following controversy over several of the board members (Kelsey Piper/Vox)

    Kelsey Piper / Vox: Google says it is dissolving its week-old AI ethics board, following controversy over several of the board members  —  The controversial panel lasted just a little over a week.  —  This week, Vox and other outlets reported that Google’s newly created AI ethics board was falling apart amid controversy … Google

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