https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_pr_1.html

you should either lock Zoom down as best you can, or — better yet — abandon the platform altogether.

https://m.dw.com/en/antarctica-experiences-first-known-heat-wave/a-52963959

https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/upgraded-google-glass-helps-autistic-kids-see-emotions

https://www.fastcompany.com/90476690/this-beautiful-library-in-minecraft-lets-people-anywhere-access-the-work-of-censored-journalists

You might not be able to find accurate info in the press in countries with oppressive regimes, but you can at Reporters Without Borders’ Uncensored Library in the game

https://www.wired.com/story/how-north-korea-robs-banks-around-world/

They scored $80 million by tricking a network into routing funds to Sri Lanka and the Philippines and then using a “money mule” to pick up the cash.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/4/21165087/ios-apple-push-notification-advertising-marketing-now-allowed-app-store

long as users agree to receive the ads first.

The change follows a couple incidents over the past two years in which Apple bent its own rules by sending out push notifications that read a lot like ads. Since other companies’ apps could be banned or have their push notification privileges revoked for that behavior, the moves were criticized as another example of Apple getting away with special treatment because it controls the platform.

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-can-clone-millions-of-toyota-hyundai-kia-keys/

Encryption flaws in a common anti-theft feature expose vehicles from major manufacturers.

chip-enabled mechanical keys

their technique likely isn’t as easy to pull off as the “relay” attacks that thieves have repeatedly used to steal luxury cars and SUVs. Those generally require only a pair of radio devices to extend the range of a key fob to open and start a victim’s car. You can pull them off from a fair distance, even through the walls of a building.

By contrast, the cloning attack the Birmingham and KU Leuven researchers developed requires that a thief scan a target key fob with an RFID reader from just an inch or two away

https://www.wired.com/story/botnet-social-network-where-everyones-influencer/

a faux-social network called Botnet, which is free for anyone to download as an app. Botnet looks like a stripped-down Facebook Newsfeed, where the only posts you can see are your own. It’s just you and the bots, who like and comment on your posts with reckless abandon.

Botnet is designed to simulate the experience of mega-fame on the internet

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/qwake-c-thru-ar-hud-firefighters/

This augmented reality feed presents them with a video stream taken from an on-board thermal camera. It then uses some smart artificial intelligence image recognition to show the outlines of objects and people in green; giving the firefighters the ability to see what they’re doing even in the smokiest of rooms.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51658111

The attack allowed hackers to gain access to its client list but it said its servers had not been breached.

Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have all demanded it stop using photos on their platforms.

But Clearview AI chief executive Hoan Ton-That told the CBS This Morning programme it was his First Amendment right to collect public photos.