Dow Jones list of 2.4 million risky banking clients exposed online – CNET
Foreign politicians, terrorists and high-profile criminals are on the list. Dow Jones list of 2.4 million risky banking clients exposed online – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreForeign politicians, terrorists and high-profile criminals are on the list. Dow Jones list of 2.4 million risky banking clients exposed online – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Coinhive, an in-browser Monero miner known for cryptojacking, says it will shut down on March 8, citing the crypto crash and a recent Monero hard fork — Coinhive wanted to be an alternative to classic banner ads but it became malware after constant abuse. Coinhive, an in-browser Monero miner known for
Read MoreFederal regulators fined social media app Musical.ly — now known as TikTok — $5.7 million for illegally collecting the names, email addresses, pictures and locations of kids under 13, a record for violations of the nation’s child privacy law. The U.S. government fined the app now known as TikTok .7 million for illegally collecting children’s
Read MoreDial-up modems were well known for their screeching soundtrack during the connection process. Modern networking eschews audio based communication methods, so we no longer have to deal with such things. However, all is not lost. [::vtol::]’s Mayak installation brings us a new sound, all its own. The installation consists of four WiFi routers, connected to
Read MoreAlexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: Crowdtangle data: a small number of Facebook Pages created 46% of the top 10,000 posts for or against vaccines, with 20% generated by seven anti-vax Pages — Squelching vaccine misinformation might be easier than the platform makes it seem. — Look up vaccinations on Facebook … Crowdtangle data: a
Read MoreDespite being an excellent phone with an innovative wide-angle camera, Samsung’s new flagship device lags Apple in biometrics. Tech Fix: Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus Review: A ,000 Smartphone With Compromises Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe Verge: After Project Veritas posts internal Facebook documents, Facebook says it fired a contractor a year ago who worked with the right-wing sting group on a “stunt” — Project Veritas published Facebook moderation conversations — Facebook says it fired a contractor who worked … After Project Veritas posts internal Facebook documents, Facebook says it
Read MoreOh, what’s KiCon you say? KiCon is the first dedicated conference on our favorite libre EDA tool: KiCad, organized by friend of Hackaday Chris Gammell and scheduled for April 26 and 27th in Chicago. Having stuffed ourselves full of treats through the holidays, followed by sleeping through the calm winter months, we find ourselves once
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: FTC settles with TikTok’s Musical.ly for $5.7M over the app’s violation of US child privacy laws; TikTok’s app updates today with a new UX for those under 13 — A significant FTC ruling issued today will see video app TikTok fined $5.7 million for violating U.S. children’s privacy laws … FTC
Read MoreThe company unveiled an early model of an autonomous delivery robot on Tuesday. Your next FedEx delivery could be a pizza Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreA Reddit experiment moves beyond upvotes into actual money. Reddit tests tipping users, starting with Mr. Hell in a Cell – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe P30 Pro’s triple camera setup extends its zoom range to 7.8x, while the P30 gets a third camera for a 4.7x zoom. Huawei P30, P30 Pro credible leaked photos reveal 7.8x-zoom camera – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTo protect himself and his sources from prying eyes in China, Paul Mozur, a technology reporter in Shanghai, leaves just an “innocent trace” of digital exhaust. Tech We’re Using: Limiting Your Digital Footprints in a Surveillance State Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreConnie Loizos / TechCrunch: Sendoso, which sends customized gifts to current and prospective clients at scale for a monthly fee, raises $10.7M Series A led by David Sack’s Craft Ventures — In today’s noisy, fast-paced world, finding a way to let clients and potential customers know that they are top of mind can be a
Read MoreThis small, stylish box for its cloud service offers device and network connections for a PC-free Windows gaming setup. Blade Shadow Ghost turns your TV into a snappy cloud-gaming PC – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe 2018 models are getting discounts to make way for new 2019 versions. But for most people, now’s the time to buy. LG OLED TVs now available for lowest prices yet, starting at ,110 – CNET Source: CNet
Read More{$inline_image} Listen, it hurts to hear, but somebody needs to say it. It’s over, OK? You’ve got to admit it and move on. Sure, you could get away with it for a week or two in January, but now it’s just getting weird. No matter how hard you fight it, the facts are the facts:
Read MoreListen, it hurts to hear, but somebody needs to say it. It’s over, OK? You’ve got to admit it and move on. Sure, you could get away with it for a week or two in January, but now it’s just getting weird. No matter how hard you fight it, the facts are the facts: the
Read MoreNew York Times: How Chinese tech companies are hurriedly rolling out facial and voice recognition tech for pigs, many of which are dying from a deadly swine disease — As a devastating disease afflicts the country’s swine, companies are scrambling to roll out facial and voice recognition and other unproven ways to save them. How
Read MoreWe like blinky things. We’re moths drawn to the flame of serially-addressable RGB LEDs. If the LEDs are smaller, we want to know. If you can drive more of them, we want to know. That said, the most interesting news out of CES last January was both right up our alley, and immensely disappointing. Corsair,
Read MoreIsobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider: Sensor Tower: TikTok passed 1B downloads on Android and iOS, excluding Android installs in China; 663M downloads came in 2018, beating Instagram’s 444M — – Chinese short-form video app TikTok has been downloaded 1 billion times across Android and iOS, according to Sensor Tower figures. Sensor Tower: TikTok passed
Read MoreBeing a woman in the male-driven tech industry can be frustrating – so much so that, if you are a woman in tech, I don’t even have to explain what I mean. Yet in the face of adversity, we’ve proven time and time again that we have what it takes to succeed. These stories of
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Boston-based job-seeking platform Jobcase raises $100M in growth equity funding led by Providence Strategic Growth, bringing total raised to $118.9M — Jobcase, a self-described open access platform for jobs seekers and employers, today announced that it has secured $100 million … Boston-based job-seeking platform Jobcase raises 0M in growth equity funding
Read MoreCryptocurrency scams that have been running for years in India are finally getting busted by the local police. Criminal investigation authorities in the Indian state of Gujarat have booked five people for running a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) called Bitstrades. The company’s founder Hardik Zadafiya has been arrested for cheating and criminal breach of trust under the Indian
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Threads, which aims to create a user-friendly asynchronous chat platform for coworkers, comes out of stealth with $10.5M Series A from Sequoia — The rapid rise of Slack has ushered in a new wave of apps, all aiming to solve one challenge: creating a user-friendly platform where coworkers can have productive
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