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January 19, 2019

Chainalysis: Bitcoin transactions on darknet markets rose throughout 2018 to an average of $2M/day, nearly double the activity measured at the start of the year (Anna Irrera/Reuters)

Anna Irrera / Reuters: Chainalysis: Bitcoin transactions on darknet markets rose throughout 2018 to an average of $2M/day, nearly double the activity measured at the start of the year — NEW YORK (Reuters) – Use of bitcoin as a form of payment doubled in 2018 on darknet market sites, where users can buy anything …

Automate Your Home From the Clearance Rack

The month or so after the holidays have always been a great time to pick up some interesting gadgets on steep clearance, but with decorations and lights becoming increasingly complex over the last few years, the “Christmas Clearance” rack is an absolute must see for enterprising hackers. You might just luck out like [ModernHam] and

January 19, 2019

How IoT-enabled scooters, bikes, and cars are making streets safe

The flurry of anti-dockless electric scooter headlines reached critical mass last summer. “This town seriously hates electric scooters,” screamed the link to a story focused on Santa Monica, Calif. “San Francisco Is Fighting the Scooter Trend With Poop and Vandalism,” blared another. There’s even an Instagram account devoted to images of destroyed rideshare scooters. And, of

January 19, 2019

How 2018 became Facebook’s worst year in privacy and security

In early December, Facebook’s developer team declared the discovery of a security bug that gave developers access to photos users hadn’t shared on their timeline, including photos they had posted in Facebook Marketplace or Stories. More worryingly, apps could find access to images users might have uploaded to Facebook but didn’t post anywhere. For example, this could

How to make your audio system sound better for free – CNET

Move your speakers into the middle of the room, and listen to them from 4 or 5 feet away. How to make your audio system sound better for free – CNET Source: CNet

January 19, 2019

Report: $5.3B was invested in cybersecurity companies in 2018, up 81% from 2016, with California alone accounting for 46% of VC investments worldwide (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Report: $5.3B was invested in cybersecurity companies in 2018, up 81% from 2016, with California alone accounting for 46% of VC investments worldwide — 2018 wasn’t all bad. It turned out to be a record year for venture capital firms investing in cybersecurity companies. Report: .3B was invested in cybersecurity companies

Euro style and high-end sound in an apartment-friendly speaker – CNET

Trenner & Friedl’s Osiris speakers produce amazing sound without taking over the room. Euro style and high-end sound in an apartment-friendly speaker – CNET Source: CNet

Full Color Dot Matrix Is The Art We Need

Fans of 80s-era computer printing technology are few and far between, but Apple’s ImageWriter II was a beast of a printer. This tractor feed dot-matrix printer is nigh-indestructible. The print quality was actually pretty great. It was loud as hell, which is a mark of quality electromechanical components. It could do color, and color dot-matrix

January 19, 2019

Hiveage streamlines your freelance and small business invoicing for just $50

Hiveage is trusted by 60,000 small businesses and freelancers around the globe — and with this offer, you can get a lifetime of access to their suite of invoicing features for only $49.99, hundreds of dollars off the regular price. Hiveage streamlines your freelance and small business invoicing for just Source: The Next Web

Chevy's full-scale Lego Silverado opens Detroit Auto Show public days – Roadshow

Even though it has 334,544 bricks, it weighs less than the real truck. Chevy's full-scale Lego Silverado opens Detroit Auto Show public days – Roadshow Source: CNet

Whirlpool, GE and the dozens of cooking apps crowding the smart kitchen – CNET

Commentary: The connected kitchen is getting complicated. And this is just the beginning. Whirlpool, GE and the dozens of cooking apps crowding the smart kitchen – CNET Source: CNet

January 19, 2019

The security threats of neural networks and deep learning algorithms

This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. History shows that cybersecurity threats evolve along with new technological advances. Relational databases brought SQL injection attacks, web scripting programming languages spurred cross-site scripting attacks, IoT devices ushered in new ways to create botnets, and the internet in

January 19, 2019

Government use of blockchain will shape our digital identity

To be honest, I hate the word “identity.” There’s a lot of talk about this now, but if anyone is telling you they’re building “identity” on a public network, you should run immediately. Why? Because it’s probably the worst thing to do. The irony of this all, is that the more we advance into the

January 19, 2019

DNC says in court filing that it was a target of a failed spearphishing campaign after the midterms; researchers: the campaign resembled Russia-linked attacks (Nicole Perlroth/New York Times)

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: DNC says in court filing that it was a target of a failed spearphishing campaign after the midterms; researchers: the campaign resembled Russia-linked attacks — SAN FRANCISCO — The Democratic National Committee believes it was targeted in a hacking attempt by a Russian group in the weeks … DNC

Unobtanium Bezels Finally Modeled For 3D Printing

In 1991, Apple released the Quadra line of computers, named after their utilization of the new Motorola 68040 CPU. The Quadra line initially consisted of two models, the Quadra 700 and the Quadra 900. These two models, and the Quadra 950, released as a slight upgrade to the 900, were the peak of performance. You

Could You Fall in Love With a Robot?

Today people fall in love via their phones. But would your phone be just as satisfying? Could You Fall in Love With a Robot? Source: NY Times Tech

Lime SDR (and Pluto, Too) Sends TV

If you have experienced software defined radio (SDR) using the ubiquitous RTL SDR dongles, you are missing out on half of it. While those SDRs are inexpensive, they only receive. The next step is to transmit. [Corrosive] shows how he uses DATV Express along with a Lime SDR or a Pluto (the evaluation device from

January 19, 2019

Recycling the world’s plastic garbage could buy you the NFL, Apple and Microsoft

This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Year. On Dec. 18, we announced the winner: 90.5 percent, the amount of plastic that has never been recycled. Okay – but why is that such a big deal? Much like Oxford English Dictionary’s “Word of the Year”

January 19, 2019

AI isn’t here to steal your job, it’s here to make it better

The belief that AI will displace jobs has been well countered with arguments that AI actually empowers workers to focus on higher-level thinking and creating. It’s an advantage in the workplace, not an obstruction. But there’s another, less discussed advantage of adopting AI at work. One with the potential to level the playing field for

January 19, 2019

Profile of an angel investor and Code.org co-founder Ali Partovi, who now manages Neo, a fund that matches talented young engineers with tech industry veterans (Biz Carson/Forbes)

Biz Carson / Forbes: Profile of an angel investor and Code.org co-founder Ali Partovi, who now manages Neo, a fund that matches talented young engineers with tech industry veterans — s venture capitalists mingled with members of the Golden State Warriors at a fall 2016 cocktail party, tech investor Ali Partovi scrambled to find something

January 19, 2019

Q&A with Hadi Partovi on starting Code.org, working on IE at Microsoft, what he is looking for in startup founders, and teaching computer science in schools (David Gelles/New York Times)

David Gelles / New York Times: Q&A with Hadi Partovi on starting Code.org, working on IE at Microsoft, what he is looking for in startup founders, and teaching computer science in schools — The founder and chief executive of Code.org, who was born in Iran, says computer science is a “foundational skill,” … Q&A with

Is That A Vintage Computer In Your Pocket?

There’s a lot of debate over which of several contenders was the first modern computer. One of those first operating computers was the University of Cambridge’s EDSAC — the brainchild of Dr. Maurice Wilkes. The EDSAC scored a lot of firsts and used a serial data path along with mercury delay line memories. Over on

January 19, 2019

Researcher: vulnerability in Marvell's Wi-Fi SoC used in the PS4, Xbox One, Surface tablets, and more lets attacker hijack devices without any user interaction (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Researcher: vulnerability in Marvell’s Wi-Fi SoC used in the PS4, Xbox One, Surface tablets, and more lets attacker hijack devices without any user interaction — List of impacted devices includes PS4, Xbox One, Samsung Chromebooks, and Microsoft Surface devices. Researcher: vulnerability in Marvell's Wi-Fi SoC used in the PS4, Xbox One,

Talking With Bubbles

Despite the title, this isn’t a tale of conversing with Michael Jackson’s chimp. Rather, it is about [KyungYun]’s machine that transforms speech into whimsical bubbles. While the speech control is novel, we were more fascinated with how the mechanism uses a system of strings to blow bubbles, along with the workmanship to make the device

January 18, 2019

The owner of Reliance Retail, India's biggest retailer, and Jio, a disruptive telecom, announces an online retail platform to compete with Flipkart and Amazon (Manish Singh/VentureBeat)

Manish Singh / VentureBeat: The owner of Reliance Retail, India’s biggest retailer, and Jio, a disruptive telecom, announces an online retail platform to compete with Flipkart and Amazon — As Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart scramble for ways to work around the impending new strict ecommerce policy in India … The owner of Reliance Retail, India's

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