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Constant but Camouflaged, Flurry of Cyberattacks Offers Glimpse of New Era
Once imagined as a new kind of warfare, government-linked hacking has instead become a widespread and perhaps permanent feature of the global order.
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U.S., Allies Accuse China of Hacking Microsoft and Condoning Other Cyberattacks
This is the first time Washington and other U.S. allies have assigned blame for the Microsoft Exchange hack, which compromised more than 100,000 servers worldwide...
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As Spain's Beaches Fill Up, Seaside Resort Sends in Drones
Officials in the town of Sitges in northeastern Spain are using drones for real-time crowd monitoring along 18 km of beach as COVID-19 cases rise.
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Encrypting Photos on the Cloud to Keep Them Private
Computer scientists at Columbia University have developed a system that allows mobile users to encrypt personal images on cloud photo services in order to maintain...
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NIST Evaluates Face Recognition Software's Accuracy for Flight Boarding
Tests of face recognition software indicate the most accurate algorithms are able to confirm airline passenger identities at boarding while committing few errors...
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Chinese Phone Games Now Require Facial Scans to Play at Night
Chinese video game publisher Tencent has added a facial recognition system to more than 60 of its China-specific smartphone games.
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Stanford Researcher's Cryptography Can Preserve Genetic Privacy in Criminal DNA Profiling
Researchers have devised cryptography that permits searching for DNA matches in criminal cases while protecting the suspect's genetic privacy.
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Resetting Your IoT Device Before Reselling It Isn't Enough, Researchers Find
A new study suggests Amazon's recommendation that users factory reset their Internet of Things devices to erase personal information before reselling them may not...
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For the First Time, Scientists Detect a Moving Photon Multiple Times Without Destroying It
A boon for all things quantum.
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Singapore Launching $50 Million Program to Advance Research on AI, Cybersecurity
Singapore intends to invest $50 million in research on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity for next-generation communications infrastructures.
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Faces Are the Next Target for Fraudsters
Facial recognition systems increasingly are a target for fraudsters.
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Hidden Costs, Flawed Training Plague the V.A.'s Huge Software Upgrade
A $16-billion effort to modernize health records at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ran into major problems in its first installation, two watchdog reports...
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AI's Role in Debugging Code Expected to Grow
Technology companies are developing artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools to debug code as software maintenance becomes ever more challenging.
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MIT Robot Could Help People with Limited Mobility Dress Themselves
Researchers designed an algorithm to help a robot efficiently dress a human, theoretically ensuring human safety by reasoning about the human model's uncertainty...
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Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack
Inside the hacks that lock down computer systems and damage businesses.
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Microsoft's Emergency Patch Fails to Fix Critical 'PrintNightmare' Vulnerability
Researchers warn a Microsoft software patch did not fully correct a flaw in the Windows operating system that allows hackers to commandeer infected networks.
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Fallout From Hack of City Law Department Could Linger for Months
One department official was reassigned, and lawyers still lack remote access to case files, leading to delays with lawsuits.
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Spy Agencies Turn to Scientists as They Wrestle With Mysteries
American intelligence agencies are tapping outside expertise as they wrestle with mysteries like the coronavirus and UFOs that are as much about science as they...
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