Alexa and Google Home abused to eavesdrop and phish passwords - Ars Technica
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 a Huge Milestone, Engineers Build a Working Computer Chip Out of Carbon Nanotubes
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)
America blacklists China’s best artificial-intelligence firms
The move, linked to repression in Xinjiang, strikes at the heart of China’s technological ambitions
Blizzard Boycott After Hearthstone Player Punished For Hong Kong Protest Support
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.
Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer
Blizzard Sets Off Backlash for Penalizing Hearthstone Gamer in Hong Kong - The New York Times
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
A brain-controlled exoskeleton has let a paralyzed man walk in the lab - MIT Technology Review
Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing - Technology - The Guardian
Leak spells out how social media app advances China’s foreign policy aims
Medical images and health data, including X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans, with names and birthdates, from 16M scans worldwide are available unprotected online — ProPublica
One expert warned about it for years.
Australia concluded China was behind hack on parliament, political parties – Reuters
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
Mozilla, Creative Commons want to create an ad-free internet
“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,”
TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience - The Washington Post
Hong Kong unrest features prominently on most social media, but not on TikTok
Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second - Science
no matter how fast or slowly languages are spoken, they tend to transmit information at about the same rate: 39 bits per second
Britisk granskning kan få store konsekvenser for norsk personvern
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.
Astronauts mix cement on ISS, pave way for future space colonies - Astronomy.com
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.
YouTube Videos Are a Gold Mine for Health Researchers - The Atlantic
“Digital exhaust” from online life could be transformed into health insights. Should it be?
How Apple’s Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls - The New York Times
Apple Responds to Project Zero – Michael Tsai
Apple takes flak for disputing iOS security bombshell dropped by Google - Ars Technica
Apple statement alienates the security community when the company needs it most.