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    • Researcher discloses zero-day exploit in Zoom's Mac client that lets any malicious site force a user into a Zoom call with video enabled without user permission (Jonathan Leitschuh/Medium)

    Jonathan Leitschuh / Medium: Researcher discloses zero-day exploit in Zoom’s Mac client that lets any malicious site force a user into a Zoom call with video enabled without user permission  —  A vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission. Researcher discloses zero-day exploit in Zoom's

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    • Two years on, WannaCry remains in thousands of networks globally, despite available patches; researcher: "kill switch" stopped ~60M WannaCry detonations in June (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

    Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Two years on, WannaCry remains in thousands of networks globally, despite available patches; researcher: “kill switch” stopped ~60M WannaCry detonations in June  —  Two British researchers saved the internet from a global cyberattack in 2017.  Amid mounting pressure and little sleep … Two years on, WannaCry remains in thousands of networks

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    • Microsoft refutes report from last week that it is moving manufacturing out of China, says there currently aren't any plans to do so (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware)

    Andrew E. Freedman / Tom’s Hardware: Microsoft refutes report from last week that it is moving manufacturing out of China, says there currently aren’t any plans to do so  —  Microsoft Refutes Report That it Will Move Manufacturing From China Andrew E. FreedmanJuly 8, 2019 at 12:54 PM A Microsoft store.  Credit: ShutterstockA Microsoft store.

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    • Superhuman still allows spying, even after last week's privacy fixes, as recipients of Superhuman emails don't know their actions are tracked or sent to senders (Mike Davidson/Mike Industries)

    Mike Davidson / Mike Industries: Superhuman still allows spying, even after last week’s privacy fixes, as recipients of Superhuman emails don’t know their actions are tracked or sent to senders  —  Last week was a good week for privacy.  Or was it?  —  It took an article I almost didn’t publish and tens of thousands

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    • Predictive policing AI is a bigger scam than psychic detectives

    Law enforcement agencies around the world have recently begun extricating themselves from expensive, ineffective predictive policing systems. The machine learning equivalent of psychic detectives, it turns out, simply doesn’t work. AI can’t predict crime In Palo Alto, California a three-year long program using predictive policing is finally being shuttered. Police spokesperson Janine De la Vega

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    • Medallia, which offers a customer experience management platform, sets IPO range at $16 to $18/share, will raise $247M at a valuation of $2.8B at the mid-point (NASDAQ.com)

    NASDAQ.com: Medallia, which offers a customer experience management platform, sets IPO range at $16 to $18/share, will raise $247M at a valuation of $2.8B at the mid-point  —  Medallia, an enterprise customer experience and feedback management platform, announced terms for its IPO on Monday. Medallia, which offers a customer experience management platform, sets IPO range

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