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Apple, Amazon, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance form Project Connected Home over IP, a partnership to create a new smart home networking standard — - Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance announced a new partnership. — It's called Project Connected Home over IP …
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| New York Times: |
The defining moments of tech in the 2010s, including the Arab Spring and unveiling of the iPad, as recalled by Zuckerberg, Snowden, Phil Schiller, and others — An oral history of the 2010s — When the decade began, tech meant promise — cars that could drive themselves, social networks that could take down dictators.
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Author details how he created a deepfake video over two weeks at a cost of $552 using Faceswap, with an explanation of the tech and some of its limitations — I learned a lot from creating my own deepfake video. — Deepfake technology uses deep neural networks to convincingly replace one face with another in a video.
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| Bloomberg: |
Current and ex-employees of SoftBank's Vision Fund describe an environment of sycophancy towards Son, harassment, rivalries, and a culture of recklessness — Masayoshi Son's venture capital firm is famous for making outsize bets on tech startups. It has also been described as an environment of sycophancy and harassment.
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| New York Times: |
An examination of poorly secured police and private databases reveals how China is ramping up its ability to spy on its citizens to new and disturbing levels — The authorities can scan your phones, track your face and find out when you leave your home. One of the world's biggest spying networks …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
After a cyber attack, Canadian medical lab LifeLabs paid a ransom to recover the stolen data of 15M+ customers, which included login info and test results — Data breach took place in early November, and hackers also gained access to 85,000 laboratory test results.
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
An in-depth look at Ikea's Home Smart business, which has shifted from being a hobby to a core part of its future — The Swedish furniture giant has conquered living rooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms — but can it hang on to the future of the home? — Björn Block hurries out of the Ikea Museum … | Chris Prentice / Reuters: |
SEC charges former Palo Alto Networks IT administrator and four accomplices with insider trading from 2015 to 2018; the traders made over $7M in illegal profits — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Tuesday said they have charged a former IT administrator and four friends involved …
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| CNN: |
The Epilepsy Foundation files criminal complaint against 30+ unidentified Twitter users for coordinated attack of seizure-inducing videos to its feed last month — (CNN)Attackers sent videos of flashing and strobing lights to people on Twitter last month as part of a cyberattack which deliberately targeted people with epilepsy.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook pilots a program in the US to use part-time contracted “community reviewers” to expedite the fact-checking process and aid its fact-checking partners — Facebook is creating a new pilot program in the U.S. that will leverage part-time contracted “community reviewers” to expedite its fact-checking process.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia debuts Drive AGX Orin platform for autonomous vehicles and robots, open-sources autonomous car AI models, and announces a partnership with Didi Chuxing — Today marked the kickoff of Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference in Suzhou, China, where CEO Jensen Huang debuted a host of products and services during his keynote address.| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Ring device testing shows it lacks safeguards that would deter credential stuffing and brute force attacks, making 2FA a key part of securing accounts — It's not so much being watched. It's that I don't really know if I'm being watched or not. — From across the other side of the world … Sponsor Posts
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