Amazon asked to share Echo data in US murder case - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46181800
A judge in the US has asked Amazon to hand over audio recordings from an Amazon Echo which was in a house where two women died.
Security flaw in DJI’s website and apps exposed accounts to hackers and drone live feeds – TechCrunch
It took about six months for popular consumer drone maker DJI to fix a security vulnerability across its website and apps
Children’s Commissioner calls for transparency on data gathered from children
A new report says children’s digital footprints are growing and more must be done to educate them about data security.
‘Bionic mushrooms’ that generate electricity created by scientists – The Independent
A regular shop-bought mushroom has been turned into an electricity generator in a process scientists hope will one day be used to power devices.
Hackers breach StatCounter, injecting its analytics script with malicious code that currently targets users of crypto exchange Gate.io to hijack BTC withdrawals – ZDNet
Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebook.html
But the report fails to look closely at how Facebook employees missed a crescendo of posts and misinformation that helped to fuel modern ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
Using Wi-Fi to “see” behind closed doors is easier than anyone thought - MIT Technology Review
With nothing but a smartphone and some clever computation, researchers can exploit ambient signals to track individuals in their own homes.
Social platforms and Silicon Valley Funders operate with sloppy disregard of the consequences of hate speech, unwilling to lose users and hurt their bottom line
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/opinion/cesar-sayoc-robert-bowers-social-media.html
Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46065796
Facebook said its security had not been compromised.
And the data had probably been obtained through malicious browser extensions.
China is exporting the Great Firewall as internet freedom declines around the world
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/11/01/asia/internet-freedom-china-censorship-intl/index.html
the internet is an excellent tool for social control, enabling surveillance and guiding of public opinion that would have been impossible in the past.
Samsung agrees to payouts after worker deaths - BBC News
Eurostar resets customer passwords after hack attack - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46048597
Eurostar has reset its customers’ login passwords after detecting attempts to break into an unspecified number of accounts.
iPhones are Allergic to Helium – iFixit
https://ifixit.org/blog/11986/iphones-are-allergic-to-helium/
Like an incredibly tiny grain of sand, the helium molecules are small enough to get inside the device, physically stop the clock, and turn your phone temporarily into a paperweight.
Another Tesla with Autopilot crashed into a stationary object
These systems are not sophisticated enough to distinguish a stationary object on the road from one that’s next to or above the road. To make the problem easier to handle, the cars may just ignore stationary objects
A look at AI-related research for predicting earthquakes by using seismic data, which scientists say is similar to the audio data used to train voice assistants - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/technology/earthquake-predictions-artificial-intelligence.html
Portrait by AI program sells for $432,000 - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45980863
The artwork was produced using an algorithm and a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th and 20th Centuries.
Driverless Cars Should Spare Young People Over Old in Unavoidable Accidents
In the Moral Machine Experiment, a survey of more than two million people from 233 countries, people preferred to save humans over animals, young over old, and more people over fewer.
Tim Cook calls for strong US privacy law, rips “data-industrial complex”
Apple CEO Tim Cook today called on the US government to pass “a comprehensive federal privacy law,” saying that tech companies that collect wide swaths of user data are engaging in surveillance.
Introducing 1Password for Democracy
https://blog.1password.com/introducing-1password-for-democracy/
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U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections - NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/us/politics/russian-hacking-usa-cyber-command.html
targeting individual Russian operatives […], telling them that American operatives have identified them and are tracking their work