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.