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China's Quiet Experiment Let Millions View Long-Banned Websites
China allowed millions of its citizens access to long-banned foreign websites like YouTube and Instagram in a two-week experiment of the Tuber mobile browser application...
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Tax Agency Watchdog Is Investigating IRS Use of Cellphone Location Data
U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russel George said he will review Internal Revenue Service use of software that enables warrantless surveillance...
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Microsoft Takes Down a Risk to the Election, and Finds the U.S. Doing the Same
Fearing Russian ransomware attacks on the election, the company and U.S. Cyber Command mounted similar pre-emptive strikes. It is not clear how long they may work...
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Israeli Researchers Find Breach Allowing Hackers to Spy Through Remotes
Researchers in Israel discovered a security breach that would let hackers eavesdrop on users through voice-command remote controls from the Comcast cable TV service...
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Facebook Widens Ban on Political Ads as Alarm Rises Over Election
Political ads will be banned indefinitely after polls close on Nov. 3 and the company plans new steps to limit misinformation about the results.
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4G, 5G Networks Could Be Vulnerable to Exploit Due to 'Mishmash' of Old Technologies
Positive Technologies' Sergey Puzankov said that outstanding issues in the Signaling System 7 protocol continue to plague the telecommunications industry as it...
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Trump Moves to Tighten Visa Access for High-Skilled Foreign Workers
The Trump administration has announced stricter rules for the H-1B visa program, which U.S. tech companies have long valued.
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The Cyber-Avengers Protecting Hospitals From Ransomware
The Cyber Threat Intelligence League aims to protect hospitals and health systems around the world from cyberattacks as they deal with Covid-19 cases.
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Contact Tracing: England's Long-Awaited App Hits 10 Million Downloads
The U.K. National Health Service's Covid-19 contact tracing app hit 10 million downloads just four days after its release.
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Digital Identity Checks to Be Expanded Under A$800M Technology Budget Package
Australia's government will broaden the use of digital identity checks when businesses and individuals access services online.
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Clinical Trials Hit by Ransomware Attack on Health Tech Firm
Philadelphia-based software provider eResearch Technology was hit two weeks ago by a ransomware attack that has slowed clinical trials.
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Flawed Algorithm Used to Determine U.K. Welfare Payments Is 'Pushing People Into Poverty'
Human Rights Watch warns a flawed algorithm for calculating monthly social security benefits in Britain is causing hunger, debt, and psychological distress.
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Critical Flaws Discovered in Popular Industrial Remote Access Systems
Researchers found critical defects in two popular industrial remote access systems that attackers could exploit.
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Report Shows It Could Take 12 Years to Reach Equal Representation of Women in Tech
Women technologists account for 28.8% of the technology workforce this year, up from 25.9% in 2018 and 26.2% in 2019, according to AnitaB.org's 10th annual "Top...
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America's Innovation Edge Now in Peril, Report Says
A sweeping report from Baker Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences urges significant policy and funding action to ensure the United States does...
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Pentagon Is Clinging to Aging Technologies, House Panel Warns
Despite the Pentagon's talk of embracing quantum computing and artificial intelligence, the politics of killing off old weapons systems is so forbidding that the...
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One of This Year's Most Severe Windows Bugs Is Now Under Active Exploit
Microsoft warns a high-impact vulnerability that allows hackers to instantly take control of Windows' Active Directory is being actively exploited by malicious...
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In Facial Recognition Challenge, Top-Ranking Algorithms Show Bias Against Black Women
Facial recognition algorithms have higher false-positive and lower false-negative rates for Black women, eyeglass wearers, and young children.
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Hackers Infiltrated Many Washington State Agencies
At least 13 of Washington State's departments and commissions reportedly have been hit by a sophisticated malware attack.
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