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Sloppy VPN mistake reportedly exposed DNC hacker as Russian spy
Mashable - 23 Mar 2018 04:57Replaced by robots: 8 jobs that could be hit hard by the A.I. revolution
Digital Trends - 23 Mar 2018 01:40
According to one study, 47 percent of current jobs in the United States could be automated within the next two decades. Here are eight examples of the kind of employment that refers to. The post Replaced by robots: 8 job...
Amnesty International presses Apple to warn Chinese iCloud users of government snooping risk
AppleInsider - 23 Mar 2018 01:40
Amnesty International is calling on Apple to inform Chinese iCloud users that their data might be at risk of government prying after the company migrated regional accounts to China-based servers, a move designed to confo...
NASA Curiosity rover reaches 2,000 Martian days milestone
Slash Gear - 23 Mar 2018 01:04
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has achieved yet another milestone: 2,000 Martian days (“sols”) of service. The rover has been rolling around the Red Planet since landing in August 2012. Since then, Curiosity has trave...
Amazon patents delivery drones that can react to people screaming and flailing
L.A. Times - 23 Mar 2018 00:25How Brain Stimulation Can Boost Memory If Paired With Learning
Singularity Hub - 23 Mar 2018 17:00
In 47 CE, Scribonius Largus, court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius, described in his Compositiones a method for treating chronic migraines: place torpedo fish on the scalps of patients to ease their pain with ele...
Do You Have What it Takes to Be an IoT Developer?
ReadWrite - 23 Mar 2018 17:00
If you constantly find yourself fascinated by the latest technological gadgets hitting the marketplace, have you ever considered becoming one of the people who designs and creates them? This week is Computer Science Educ...
DOJ Accuses Iran of Hacking Thousands of University Professors to Steal Scientific Research
Gizmodo - 23 Mar 2018 16:58
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday unveiled an indictment in the Southern District of New York accusing nine Iranians of conspiring to hack into universities and businesses to steal intellectual property and ac...
Bank of America Analyst Says Apple Plans to Launch Foldable iPhone in 2020
Mac Rumors - 23 Mar 2018 16:57
Apple plans to launch a foldable iPhone two years from now, according to Wamsi Mohan, an analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. A fan-made foldable iPhone concept Mohan shared his prediction in a research note obtaine...
Guccifer 2.0 Was Always Sloppy
Motherboard - 23 Mar 2018 16:48
A sloppy mistake linked Guccifer 2.0 to Russian military intelligence officers, according to a new report. But this was hardly the only mistake the hacker made in his months-long existence.
Scientists Are Building a Mini-Earth With 8 Tons of Spinning Liquid Sodium
Gizmodo - 23 Mar 2018 16:40
Admit it, you don't really understand why the Earth has a magnetic field. Sure, movement inside the Earth's outer core is creating a electric current, generating a magnetic field through it. But what's causing this movem...
Nine Iranians charged in $3.4 billion cyber theft campaign targeting universities, Justice says
USA Today - 23 Mar 2018 16:37
Nine Iranians charged in massive cyber theft campaign
Congress Enacts Garbage Surveillance Legislation By Attaching it to Must-Pass Budget Bill
Motherboard - 23 Mar 2018 16:31
The CLOUD Act is highly unpopular, but it passed, because Congress is dysfunctional.
A new laser source for infrared chemical imaging: a promising tool for early cancer diagnostic
Phys.org - 23 Mar 2018 16:22
Sébastien Février, researcher at XLIM (CNRS/Université de Limoges), and his team demonstrated that a bench-top, optical fibre-based laser source can be used to perform infrared spectromicroscopy with a precision rival...
Exposed: The path of ransomware payments
Phys.org - 23 Mar 2018 16:12
The murky ecosystem of ransomware payments comes into focus in new research led by Damon McCoy, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Ransomware attacks, whic...
World's largest collection of ocean garbage is twice the size of Texas
USA Today - 23 Mar 2018 16:04
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, halfway between Hawaii and California, has grown to more than 600,000 square miles, or twice the size of Texas.
Apple's Sales Have Grown So Much That It's Running Out of 10-Digit Invoice Numbers
Mac Rumors - 23 Mar 2018 16:04
Currently, when Apple sends an invoice to its customers and business partners, the recipient gets an invoice number that is entirely numeric and spans 10 digits. According to a post on Reddit citing a letter from Apple c...
Everything You Need to Know About Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
Wired - 23 Mar 2018 16:00
All of WIRED's coverage on the scandal plaguing the social media giant.
How Much Energy Can You Store in a Rubber Band?
Wired - 23 Mar 2018 16:00
On a scale from "light thwack" to "geez, watch it with that thing!"
New Data Gives Peek at European IMSI Catcher Exports
Motherboard - 23 Mar 2018 15:30
Data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act style-request shows Finnish companies exporting powerful surveillance technology to Mexico, Colombia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Tony Hunter receives Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award
EurekAlert! - 23 Mar 2018 06:00
(Salk Institute) Salk scientist celebrated for seminal contributions to cancer research.
Apple says a fix for that pesky Siri privacy bug is on the way
BGR - 23 Mar 2018 05:34
Upon its release late last year, iOS 11 was widely viewed as one of the buggiest iOS releases in history. That being the case, the discovery of yet another iOS bug this week is perhaps not all that surprising. As we high...