Also, the most detailed brain map yet took 12 years, $40m to build Roundup Hello, welcome to this week’s AI roundup of news that’s beyond what we’ve already covered, and it’s mostly all about facial recognition.…
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Teenagers today. Can’t take them anywhere, eh? 18-year-old kid accused of $50m SIM-swap cryptocurrency heist
Also, Cisco, Citrix emit patches, US army advises using Signal Roundup Here comes a summary of this week’s computer security news beyond what we’ve already covered.…
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Protestors in Los Angeles force ICANN board out of hiding over .org sale – for a brief moment, at least
DNS overseer accepts 35,000-signature petition… and then runs away It was only going to be one rogue member, then it wasn’t happening at all, and then the entire board of DNS overseer ICANN emerged from the organization’s headquarters into Los Angeles, blinking in the bright sun, to accept a 35,000-signature petition from those opposed the...
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Curse of Boeing continues: Now a telly satellite it built may explode, will be pushed up to 500km from geo orbit
DirecTV’s Spaceway-1 to head off into the void before its batteries denote AT&T’s satellite telly service DirecTV will push one of its birds beyond geostationary orbit – before it has a chance to explode into a million pieces.…
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Everyone loves our new desktop web search design so much – the one with ads that look like links – that we’re tweaking it, says Google
Unpopular opinion: Adverts are a bit more distinct with this new style, but OK, internet, you win Google is under fire this week for rolling out a new design for its desktop web search results in which advertisements and normal links look almost the same.…
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One-time Brexit Secretary David Davis demands Mike Lynch’s extradition to US be halted
MP claims HPE vs Autonomy High Court trial has cost £40m to date Ex-Cabinet minister David Davis has called for former Autonomy exec Mike Lynch’s potential US extradition to be halted – at least until judgment in the lengthy UK civil case brought against him by HPE.…
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Don’t mention the seam! Microsoft releases Surface Duo Android SDK, more on Windows 10X
New SDK shows both potential and challenge of the new Surface devices Microsoft has released a preview SDK for its forthcoming Android Surface Duo device, and has confirmed a Developer Day on February 11th when the SDK for the Windows dual-screen Surface Neo will be previewed.…
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Ooh, watch out Google. You’ve got competition. Verizon has a new ‘privacy-focused’ search engine
Yep, the Verizon that sold subscribers’ location data Verizon has slung out a new, privacy-focused search engine in an effort to win over customers who prefer not to have their browsing habits tracked by ad-slingers and the like.…
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SLS goes vertical at Stennis while NASA practises SRB stacking
Shades of Saturn V as Artemis I inches closer to launch Engineers have lowered NASA’s monster SLS core stage into the B-2 Test Stand at the agency’s Stennis Space Center.…
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Good folk of Forfar: Alan Hattel would like you all to know he’s not dead despite what it says on his tombstone
So give him a call FFS Like the unfortunate soul who finds himself being loaded onto a cart of plague victims in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a bloke from Forfar in Scotland has had to declare himself “still alive” after finding his name on a headstone in a local graveyard.…