[ad_1] The exploit was detailed at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas by Nathan Hauke and David Renardy security company Two Six Labs, as reported by Wired. Rather than a traditional DDoS attack which overwhelms a server by sending thousands of junk traffic requests to it from hundreds of different computers until it […]
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Key U.S. election systems could have been exposed online for months
[ad_1] It’s likely the case that election officials who claimed their systems weren’t online didn’t know any better. “We … discovered that at least some jurisdictions were not aware that their systems were online,” Kevin Skoglund, an independent security consultant, told Motherboard. At issue isn’t the electronic voting machines themselves, but the SFTP server and […]
Misuse of land and agriculture is driving climate change
[ad_1] The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which issued the report, relied on the expertise of 107 scientists from 50 nations all over the world — more than half from developing nations. The report outlines the ways that increased demand for food is not only warming the planet, but making it harder to […]
Apple faces anti-trust probe in Russia over rejected parental control app
[ad_1] The company has taken heat from US and EU regulators for its tight control over apps that allow parents to limit their children’s screen time. Apple this summer issued a new policy on such parental control apps, permitting apps that rely on a VPN or MDM (mobile device management). According to the updated guidance, […]
Facial recognition will catch sleepy taxi drivers in Russia
[ad_1] The device, which will be mounted on the car’s windshield, includes software that can identify the signs of an exhausted person — including blinking, yawning and a less than upright posture. In total, the software can identify 68 facial points. The move by Yandex is in response to demands from Russian legislators that taxi […]
Facebook’s Workplace redesign looks nothing like Slack
[ad_1] Workplace groups offer real-time chat and posts with threaded comments. That’s why, perhaps, the rest of Workplace is largely unchanged. The site still has a newsfeed, for instance, steered by the Facebook algorithm. According to McGinn, it gives employees a bird’s-eye view of their company and surfaces content they might not have found on […]
Facebook sues two app developers for click fraud
[ad_1] According to a statement from Facebook, the developers created Android apps infected with malware that faked user clicks on the social media platform’s ads. The apps in question are pretty basic by design — they include apps to clear up phone storage, save battery life, scan for viruses and a note pad. Some of […]
Researchers create ‘2D’ gold a million times thinner than a fingernail
[ad_1] The flakes are flexible, which means they could be used in bendable screens, electronic inks and transparent conducting displays, plus tests indicate that the material is 10 times more efficient as a catalytic substrate than the currently used gold nanoparticles. This means it could greatly increase the speed of medical diagnostic tests, as well […]
Sony is using AI to replace drummers, one beat at a time
[ad_1] In order to train the AI system, Sony’s researchers compiled data from 665 different songs from a wide range of genres including pop, rock and electronica. The songs all feature ryhthm instruments, bass, kick and snares that were available as separate 44.1kHZ audio tracks. With the contexual signals of those tracks, the researchers created […]
NEC’s passenger drone takes a short test flight in Japan
[ad_1] The battery-powered drone didn’t actually have a passenger inside as it rose to a height of about 10 feet for a few moments before returning to the ground. It was the first demo of such a vehicle by a major Japanese corporation, according to Bloomberg. Its partner Cartivator aims to start mass production in […]