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As attendees of Defcon's Voting Village, including an 11-year-old, successfully hack voting machines, vendors and officials try to downplay the problems — Veteran hackers have tried for years to get the world to notice flaws in voting machines. Now that they've got it, they have to wrestle with scaring people away from voting.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Dealing with the likes of Infowars on internet platforms is not a binary choice to keep or ban them; many other options exist, and they should all be explored — from the deplatforming-and-denialism dept — Warning 1: I'm about to talk about an issue that has a lot of nuance in it and no clear …
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| Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: |
Social media pressure is here to stay as a tactic against advertisers and platforms that support shows like Infowars, because it works, as Sleeping Giants shows — Shortly before the 2016 presidential election, Matt Rivitz stumbled upon the Breitbart News website, which once called itself the “home of the alt-right.”| Tanya Dua / Business Insider: |
Vimeo has joined YouTube and others in removing InfoWars from its platform; sources say removal came after employee dissatisfaction that it hadn't been banned — - Vimeo is the latest platform to removed InfoWars' account from its platform, following Facebook and YouTube.| Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney: |
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| Check Point Research: |
Check Point shows how hackers could infiltrate networks via all-in-one printers using just a fax number, points to attack on HP model that HP has since patched — Research By: Eyal Itkin and Yaniv Balmas — Fax, the brilliant technology that lifted mankind out the dark ages of mail delivery …
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Researchers demo machine learning techniques that de-anonymize the authors of code samples, often with more than 90% accuracy, even from binary code — RESEARCHERS WHO STUDY stylometry—the statistical analysis of linguistic style—have long known that writing is a unique, individualistic process.| Shira Ovide / Bloomberg: |
Snapchat's loosened standards for video and changes to advertising, like its use of consumer data and computerized auctions, make it less of an internet rebel — It loses luster, though, as it discards the elements that set it apart. — Snapchat has defined itself in opposition to the internet establishment.| BuzzFeed News: |
State Dept. cable says a five-day-long attack on 9+ major Swedish news sites in 2016 was part of a Russian disinformation campaign to destabilize NATO alliances — According to a newly released State Department cable, the attack was part of a Russian campaign to sow disinformation about NATO.
Tweets: @ericgeller and @buzzfeednews
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researcher details vulnerabilities in police body cams, like possibility for outsiders to track individual cams, alter video footage, plant malware, and more — AS THEY PROLIFERATE, police body cameras have courted controversy because of the contentious nature of the footage they capture …
Tweets: @yaleprivacylab
| Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
Netflix says its CFO David Wells, who led the service's international expansion to 190 countries, is leaving the company after 14 years — Netflix chief financial officer David Wells will step down, the company announced Monday. — The company said Wells will stay on the job until he can help choose a successor.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Rigetti Computing, one of the companies trying to build a practical quantum computer, discloses that it has raised a $50M round in late 2017 — Few corners of the tech industry are as tantalizing or complex as quantum computing. For years evangelists have promised machines capable of breaking …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Deloitte: since 2015, China has outspent the US by $24B in 5G infrastructure and has built 350K new cell sites, compared to less than 30K in US — - China has built 350,000 new cell sites, while the U.S. has built fewer than 30,000 since 2015, according to Deloitte.
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