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data Facebook Knew of Cambridge Analytica Data Misuse Earlier Than Reported
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Facebook employees were aware of concerns about 'improper data-gathering practices' by Cambridge Analytica months before the Guardian first reported, in December 2015, that the political consultancy had obtained data on...
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its Walmart Is Looking Into Launching Its Own Cloud Gaming Service, Report Says
Google's Stadio cloud-gaming service may be intercepted by a similar service from Walmart. According to a report from US Gamer, the American retail giant is looking into launching its own cloud gaming service. From the report: Multiple sources familiar with Walmart's plans,...
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report Crashed Boeing Planes Lacked Safety Features That Company Sold Only As Extras
The recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes involving an Ethiopian Airlines flight and a Lion Air flight may have been a result of two missing safety features that Boeing charged airlines extra for (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). The New York Times reports that ...
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which Apple's Plan For Its New TV Service: Sell Other People's TV Services
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Recode: After years of circling the TV business, Apple is finally ready to make its big splash: On Monday it will unveil its new video strategy, along with some of the new big-budget TV shows it is funding itself. One thing Apple...
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facebook First Medical Device To Treat Alzheimer's Is Up For Approval By the FDA
the_newsbeagle writes: An FDA advisory committee met today to consider approving the NeuroAD device, which is supposed to help with the cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. The device uses a combination of brain stimulation and cognitive training tasks to strengthen...
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read 750,000 Medtronic Defibrillators Vulnerable To Hacking
The Homeland Security Department has issued an alert Thursday describing two types of computer-hacking vulnerabilities in 16 different models of Medtronic implantable defibrillators sold around the world, including some still on the market today. The vulnerability also...
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slashdot Microsoft Boots Up the First 'DNA Drive' For Storing Data
Since 2016, Microsoft has been working with the University of Washington to develop the first device to automatically encode digital information into DNA and back to bits again. 'So far, DNA storage has been carried out by hand in the lab,' reports MIT Technology Review. But ...
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story The Majority of Scooters in LA Are Going To Share Your Location With the City
Los Angeles is pumping the brakes on scooter companies that won't tell it what part of the city you're wheeling around. From a report: Last September, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation said it would require all scooter companies to provide real-time location data...
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computer Microsoft Says the FCC 'Overstates' Broadband Availability In the US
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Microsoft this week was the latest to highlight the U.S. government's terrible broadband mapping in a filing with the FCC, first spotted by journalist Wendy Davis. In it, Microsoft accuses the FCC of over-stating actual...
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Thursday March 21, 2019. 11:40 PM
geek Tesla Sues Former Employees For Allegedly Stealing Data, Autopilot Source Code
Tesla is suing a former engineer at the company, claiming he copied the source code for its Autopilot technology before joining a Chinese self-driving car startup in January. Reuters reports: The engineer, Guangzhi Cao, copied more than 300,000 files related to Autopilot...
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news Grandson of Legendary John Deere Inventor Calls Out Company On Right To Repair
chicksdaddy writes: The grandson of Theo Brown, a legendary engineer and inventor for John Deere who patented, among other things, the manure spreader is calling out the company his grandfather served for decades for its opposition to right to repair legislation being...
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pc Historic, Widespread Flooding Will Continue Through May, NOAA Says
The U.S. is likely to see 'historic, widespread flooding' through May, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's spring outlook. From a report: 'This is shaping up to be a potentially unprecedented flood season, with more than 200 million people at risk ...
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technology Cable Lobby Seeks Better Reputation By Dropping 'Cable' From Its Name
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Cable lobbyists don't want to be called cable lobbyists anymore. The nation's top two cable industry lobby groups have both dropped the word 'cable' from their names. But the lobby groups' core mission -- the fight...
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internet PewCrypt Ransomware Locks Users' Files and Won't Offer a Decryption Key Until - and Unless - PewDiePie's YouTube Channel Beats T-Series To Hit 100M Subscribers
The battle between PewDiePie, currently the most subscribed channel on YouTube, and T-Series, an Indian music label, continues to have strange repercussions. In recent months, as T-Series closes in on the gap to beat PewDiePie for the crown of the most subscribers on...
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technologies Comcast Unveils $5-a-Month Streaming Service Xfinity Flex
Comcast announced a $5-a-month streaming video service Thursday called Xfinity Flex, an offering that aggregates on-demand video from your subscriptions like Netflix Amazon Prime Video and HBO, as well as offering free ad-supported shows to watch and options to rent and buy...
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computers Nokia Firmware Blunder Sent Some User Data To China
HMD Global, the Finnish company that sublicensed the Nokia smartphone brand from Microsoft, is under investigation in Finland for collecting and sending some phone owners' information to a server located in China. From a report: In a statement to Finnish newspaper Helsingin...
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pc news US Companies Are Moving Tech Jobs To Canada Rather Than Deal With Trump's Immigration Policies, Report Says
US companies are going to keep hiring foreign tech workers, even as the Trump administration makes doing so more difficult. For a number of US companies that means expanding their operations in Canada, where hiring foreign nationals is much easier. From a report: Demand for...
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pc news headlines Microsoft Ships Antivirus For macOS as Windows Defender Becomes Microsoft Defender
Microsoft is bringing its Windows Defender anti-malware application to macOS -- and more platforms in the future -- as it expands the reach of its Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) platform. From a report: To reflect the new cross-platform nature, the suite is also...
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geek news Amazon To Launch Mobile Ads, in a Threat To Google and Facebook
Amazon.com has been beta testing its in-house made ads on Apple's iOS platform for several months, Bloomberg reported Thursday, in a move that is described as ecommerce giant's growing efforts to grab a chunk of the $129 billion digital advertising market that is currently...
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technology news For Years, Hundreds of Millions of Facebook Users Had Their Account Passwords Stored in Plain Text and Searchable By Thousands of Facebook Employees
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees -- in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity reported Thursday. From the report: Facebook says an ongoing investigation has so...
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