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Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping
Researchers at Slovakian Internet security company ESET discovered that billions of devices are affected by a Wi-Fi vulnerability that allows nearby attackers to...
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Researchers Have Already Tested YouTube’s Algorithms for Political Bias
More moderation associated with more hate speech and misinformation, not politics.
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Microsoft's DreamWalker VR Turns Your Daily Commute Into Totally Different One
Microsoft researchers have designed virtual reality solutions to allow users to remain fully immersed in virtual environments, even when walking in real-life locations...
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Ransomware Forces Hospitals to Turn Away All but Most Critical Patients
Ransomware has crippled hospitals in Alabama and Australia, blocking admission for all but the most critical new patients.
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'RobbinHood' Ransomware Takes Down Baltimore City Government Networks
A "RobbinHood" ransomware attack earlier this week crippled networks used by Baltimore's city government.
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Ethiopian Air Pilots Turned Off 737 MAX Anti-Stall System. Then It Turned On Again
The pilots of Ethiopia Airlines Flight 302 apparently followed the proper steps to shut down an errant flight control system as they struggled to regain control...
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They Didn't Buy the DLC: Feature that Could've Prevented 737 Crashes Was Sold As an Option
The crashed Lion Air 737 MAX and the Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX aircraft had more in common than aircraft design and the apparently malfunctioning flight system...
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ber Escapes Criminal Charges for 2018 Self-Driving Death in Arizona
A prosecutor in Arizona has decided not to press charges against Uber in the March 2018 death of Elaine Herzberg. One of Uber's self-driving cars crashed into Herzberg...
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Researchers, Scared by Their Own Work, Hold Back 'Deepfakes for Text' AI
OpenAI, a non-profit research company investigating "the path to safe artificial intelligence," has developed a machine learning system called Generative Pre-trained...
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All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things
Cities generate lots of data. The exact amount depends on the size of the city and its sophistication and ambitions, but it's certainly more than mere humans can...
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More Than an Auto-Pilot, AI Charts Its Course in Aviation
Ask anyone what they think of when the words "artificial intelligence" and aviation are combined, and it's likely the first things they'll mention are drones.
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Decade-Old Bluetooth Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Data Passing Between Devices
A study by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology warns of a decade-old bug in the Bluetooth specification.
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Why Emergency Braking Systems Sometimes Hit Parked Cars and Lane Dividers
The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday provided new details about a March crash in Mountain View, California, that claimed the life of engineer Walter...
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Critical PGP and S/MIME Bugs can Reveal Encrypted Emails—ninstall Now
The flaws can expose emails sent in the past and "pose an immediate threat."
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What Lies Beneath: The Things Facebook Knows Go Beyond ser Data
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations regarding the exposure of profile data for millions of users, Facebook is now facing an investigation into its...
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AI Trained to Spot Heart Disease Risks sing Retina Scan
The idea behind using a neural network for image recognition is that you don't have to tell it what to look for in an image.
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Major Payment Company: 'fewer and Fewer se Cases' For Bitcoin Payments
Stripe is one of the most popular ways for small online organizations to accept credit card payments. And in 2014 it became one of the first major payment processors...
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Do We Need a Tech Boom For the Elderly?
Joseph Coughlin has been director of the MIT AgeLab ever since he founded it in 1999. In his new book, The Longevity Economy, he contends that old age—much like...
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