By now, the privacy threats posed by Amazon Alexa and Google Home are common knowledge. Workers for both companies routinely listen to audio of users—recordings of which can be kept forever—and the sounds the devices capture can be used in criminal trials.
Now, there’s a new concern: malicious apps developed by third parties and hosted by Amazon or Google.
In this new study, researchers used rolled up sheets of carbon, each a single atom thick, to form 14,000 carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs)
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenstrapagiel/blizzard-boycott-hong-kong
people who play Blizzard games have started a boycott movement over what’s being called a cowardly act of censorship in favor of the Chinese government.
The move, linked to repression in Xinjiang, strikes at the heart of China’s technological ambitions
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/world/asia/blizzard-hearthstone-hong-kong.html
the latest American company to find itself caught between its business interests in China and the values of its core customers
Leak spells out how social media app advances China’s foreign policy aims
One expert warned about it for years.
Hong Kong unrest features prominently on most social media, but not on TikTok
“We’re at a point where it’s clear there’s kinds of negative side effects for people and even for democracy of the data-driven ad economy that funds the internet,”
The report, which also included input from the Department of Foreign Affairs, recommended keeping the findings secret in order to avoid disrupting trade relations with Beijing
no matter how fast or slowly languages are spoken, they tend to transmit information at about the same rate: 39 bits per second
https://nrkbeta.no/2019/09/13/britisk-granskning-kan-fa-store-konsekvenser-for-norsk-personvern/
– Handelen med personopplysninger slik vi kjenner den i dag står på spill.
Det kan være bra for nordmenns personvern, men det kan også skade annonsefinansierte nettaviser og innovative internettselskaper.
“Digital exhaust” from online life could be transformed into health insights. Should it be?
By successfully mixing cement in space for the first time, researchers have taken a small step toward building structures on other worlds, such as the Moon and Mars.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/09/technology/apple-app-store-competition.html
contaminated by bacterial genes.
https://pxlnv.com/blog/dont-speak/
The more I’ve thought about Apple’s statement regarding the iOS exploit chains discovered last week, the more bizarre it seems
Apple statement alienates the security community when the company needs it most.