You Should Know About This Chernobyl Fungus That Eats Radiation

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a30784690/chernobyl-fungus/

How can this fungus process radiation in this way? Because it has tons of very dark melanin pigment that absorbs radiation and processes it in a harmless way to produce energy.

Researcher details a backdoor in Huawei-owned HiSilicon chips used in millions of smart devices, including security cameras, that has been active since 2013 - ZDNet

https://www.zdnet.com/article/researcher-backdoor-mechanism-discovered-in-devices-using-hisilicon-chips/

Your Philips Hue light bulbs can still be hacked — and until recently, compromise your network - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21123491/philips-hue-bulb-hack-hub-firmware-patch-update

Might want to check if you’ve got firmware 1935144040

Facebook settles facial recognition lawsuit for $550 million

https://www.cyberscoop.com/facbook-facial-recognition-lawsuit-illinois/

Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions” service

The case accuses Facebook of breaking privacy law in Illinois by mining information about people in the state without their consent, then failing to disclose how long that data would be stored

London to deploy live facial recognition to find wanted faces in a crowd - Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/london-to-deploy-live-facial-recognition-to-find-wanted-faces-in-crowd/

Tech from NEC aimed at spotting wanted persons on the streets to alert officers.

Opplysninger om over tre millioner medlemmer av norsk idrett lå tilgjengelige på nett - ABC Nyheter

https://www.abcnyheter.no/nyheter/sport/2020/02/05/195647027/opplysninger-om-over-tre-millioner-medlemmer-av-norsk-idrett-la-tilgjengelige-pa-nett

etter en IT-feil hos Idrettsforbundet. Datatilsynet prioriterer saken høyt.

A performance artist loaded 99 smartphones into a wagon and opened Google Maps on all of them, creating an artificial traffic jam that turned green streets red – Ben Schoon / 9to5Google

https://ww.9to5google.com/2020/02/03/google-maps-hack-virtual-traffic-jam/

Google admits it sent private videos in Google Photos to strangers - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21122044/google-photos-privacy-breach-takeout-data-video-strangers

Google’s Takeout service, that lets people download their data, was affected by a “technical issue” between November 21st and November 25th last year. It resulted in a small number of users receiving private videos that didn’t belong to them.

The app that the Iowa Democratic Party commissioned to tabulate and report results from the caucuses on Monday was not properly tested - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/us/politics/iowa-caucus-app.html

“The consensus of all experts who have been thinking about this is unequivocal,” Mr. Blaze added. “Internet and mobile voting should not be used at this time in civil elections.” Any technology, he said, should be tested and retested by the broader cybersecurity community before being publicly introduced, to test for anything ranging from a small bug to a major vulnerability. “I think the most important rule of thumb in introducing technology into voting is be extremely conservative,” he said

The Chinese doctor who tried to warn others about coronavirus - BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51364382

In early January, authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan were trying to keep news of a new coronavirus under wraps. When one doctor tried to warn fellow medics about the outbreak, police paid him a visit and told him to stop.