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• What if Yahoo hackers have my details?

  23-09-2016 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's technology reporter Chris Foxx explains how you can stay safe following the Yahoo hack.
  
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• Cancer blogger Anna Swabey fundraising target met

  23-09-2016 19:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The target of raising £100,000 created by a blogger Anna Swabey, who was killed by brain cancer, is met on the day of her funeral.
  
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• Women and queer-inclusive game jam aims to boost diversity

  23-09-2016 19:03
  
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• Yahoo hack hits 500 million users, but who are the suspects?

  23-09-2016 18:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As Yahoo announces a huge data breach by "state-sponsored hackers" - who could that mean?
  
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• Report: Apple's answer to the Amazon Echo inches closer to reality

  23-09-2016 18:13 via zdnet.com
  
  A new report claims Apple engineers are testing the smart home device outside of Apple's secretive campus.
  
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• Twitter shares soar almost 20% on takeover talk

  23-09-2016 17:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Shares in Twitter jump more than 20% after a report that it has received takeover approaches, including from Google and Salesforce.com.
  
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• Get ready for the robotics A-Team

  23-09-2016 17:32 via zdnet.com
  
  Autonomous mobile robots can accomplish a variety of tasks.
  
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• How Microsoft is open-sourcing Minecraft AI experiments

  23-09-2016 17:23
  
  Microsoft’s Katja Hofmann gave a demo of Project Malmo – the free download that brings AI experimentation to the sandbox
  
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• Cutting the cable: why industry is turning to wireless

  23-09-2016 17:00 via computerweekly.com
  
  Wireless networking technology is heading out of the office and the living room, and on to the factory floor. We explore the trend
  
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• Amazon has been fined £65,000 for trying to fly dangerous goods

  23-09-2016 16:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Online giant Amazon has been fined £65,000 after being found guilty of attempting to ship dangerous goods by air.
  
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• Exchanged Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones face fresh battery complaints

  23-09-2016 16:42 via zdnet.com
  
  Consumers have complained that exchanged Galaxy Note 7 handsets are overheating and quickly losing battery life.
  
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• Palmer Luckey vanishes from Reddit after Trump 'shitposting'

  23-09-2016 16:39
  
  The Oculus Rift creator appears to have deleted the Reddit account used to bolster and fund a pro-Trump group
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• Plane crew douse smoking Samsung phone

  23-09-2016 16:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cabin crew on an Indian passenger aircraft have used a fire extinguisher to tackle a smoking Samsung handset.
  
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• Amazon fined for shipping lithium batteries on passenger planes

  23-09-2016 16:02
  
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• Google or Salesforce could be about to bid for Twitter

  23-09-2016 15:37
  
  Report from CNBC claims “several technology companies” have expressed an interest in Twitter with a formal bid expected soon
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• From digital to biological: Why the future of storage is all about DNA

  23-09-2016 15:29 via zdnet.com
  
  The same four chemical building blocks behind almost all life on earth could one day be used replace traditional computer storage.
  
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• What's in that photo? Google open-sources caption tool in TensorFlow that can tell you

  23-09-2016 15:25 via zdnet.com
  
  Google's Show and Tell open-sourced imaging caption system doesn't just repeat pre-learned descriptions of images.
  
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• Government enlists startups to develop exporters’ network

  23-09-2016 15:00 via computerweekly.com
  
  The Department for International Trade selects two startups to help it build an artificial intelligence, peer-to-peer knowledge network
  
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• We're told data breaches cost millions on average - but this security study disagrees

  23-09-2016 14:41 via zdnet.com
  
  New research suggests that the average cost of data breaches is lower than many estimates and too low to drive greater investment in cybersecurity.
  
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• Turns out the Oculus Rift creator is funding the dark corners of Donald Trump lobbyist groups

  23-09-2016 14:29
  
  Palmer Luckey is funding angry right-wingers to "make America great again"
  
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• BBC builds a 'holographic' TV to see how we may watch shows in the future

  23-09-2016 14:26
  
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• Facebook 'overestimated' video viewing time

  23-09-2016 13:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook has overestimated how much video people have watched for the last two years, the company has admitted.
  
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• Cybersecurity accelerator gives startups the chance to work with GCHQ spy agency

  23-09-2016 13:37 via zdnet.com
  
  New government scheme designed to help protect the UK from cyberattacks
  
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• RBS tests claim blockchain could replace UK’s Faster Payments bank clearing scheme

  23-09-2016 13:34 via computerweekly.com
  Researchers at the Royal Bank of Scotland investigate the use of distributed ledger technology for bank clearing systems
  
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• Infrastructure as code: What does it mean and why does it matter?

  23-09-2016 13:21 via computerweekly.com
  
  The emergence of software-defined hardware has given rise to the phrase “infrastructure as code” to describe the way these environments are managed
  
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• BBC opens up about holographic TV trials

  23-09-2016 13:10 via computerweekly.com
  Broadcaster reveals how it is attempting to pre-empt the potential change in viewing habits the rise of augmented reality could bring
  
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• This tiny Q-Bot could save you a fortune on heating bills

  23-09-2016 13:00
  
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• UK government partners with tech startups on cyber security

  23-09-2016 12:30 via computerweekly.com
  Applications are open to cyber security startups for the first of two cyber innovation centres to receive £50m over five years, as part of the government’s £1.9m National Cyber Security Programme
  
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• Alan Turing's homosexual court files go on display

  23-09-2016 12:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Court files recording details of World War Two code-breaker Alan Turing's convictions for homosexual acts have gone on display for the first time.
  
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• Tefal Cook4Me Connect review: Is this the smart cooker you've been looking for?

  23-09-2016 12:28
  
  Pressure cooking gets smart, but this one isn’t clever enough for the forward-looking smart home
  
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• Google Safe Browsing beats rivals but still only flags up 10 percent of hacked sites

  23-09-2016 12:26 via zdnet.com
  
  An analysis of hijacked websites suggests Google's Safe Browsing technology is only warning users about a small proportion of them.
  
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• Watch Rosetta's final moments as the probe gears up to 'crash' into comet 67P

  23-09-2016 11:49
  
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• Rosetta will crash into comet 67P next week

  23-09-2016 11:49
  
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• Yahoo under fire over data breach affecting 500 million users

  23-09-2016 11:45 via computerweekly.com
  Yahoo comes under fire for not detecting and notifying users sooner of the biggest breach of personal details to date
  
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• IBM lambasted by ABS for failing to handle Census DDoS

  23-09-2016 10:45 via zdnet.com
  
  The Australian Bureau of Statistics has said IBM should have been able to handle the denial-of-service attack that hit Census systems on the night of August 9.
  
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• Interview: British Medical Journal’s CDO talks datacentres, DevOps and desktops

  23-09-2016 10:36 via computerweekly.com
  
  BMJ’s chief digital officer explains how the 170-year-old healthcare publication has negotiated several major digital transformation projects since she joined in 2012
  
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• Protect bank transfer scam victims, demands Which?

  23-09-2016 10:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  People who are tricked into transferring money to a fraudster deserve better protection, says consumer group Which?
  
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• EU drops limits on free roaming

  23-09-2016 09:54
  
  European Commission ditches 90-day cap on free data roaming
  
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• Yahoo confirms it lost 500m account details in "state sponsored" attack

  23-09-2016 09:47
  
  Several hundred million accounts exposed as Yahoo is set to finalise deal with Verizon
  
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• EGX 2016: What's new at UK's biggest gaming event?

  23-09-2016 09:45 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK's biggest gaming event - EGX 2016 - has kicked off in Birmingham. BBC reporter Steffan Powell tells us what to look out for...
  
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• Yahoo 'state' hackers stole data from 500 million users

  23-09-2016 09:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Yahoo says 'state-sponsored' hackers stole information from about 500 million users in 2014 in what appears to be the largest publicly disclosed cyber-breach in history.
  
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• WIRED Awake: 10 must-read articles for September 23

  23-09-2016 09:11
  
  Tesla and SolarCity to launch a 'solar roof',Ig Nobel prizes award study into 'pseudo-profound bullshit'
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• The robot which can climb stairs and other tech news

  23-09-2016 09:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Lara Lewington looks at some of the best of the week's technology news.
  
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• NBN anticipates updated CVC model in 2017

  23-09-2016 08:55 via zdnet.com
  
  NBN is kicking off another round of CVC pricing consultations with industry, with a new model to be implemented during the second half of the financial year.
  
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• Incredible machines fix simple problems

  23-09-2016 08:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Meet Joseph Herscher - he's from New York and might just be the wackiest inventor ever! Take a look if you don't believe us...
  
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• Optus Business adds cybersecurity capabilities to managed services

  23-09-2016 08:28 via zdnet.com
  
  Leveraging Palo Alto Networks' cybersecurity platform, Optus and Singtel will now provide enterprise and government customers with detection and prevention mechanisms against cyber attacks.
  
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• 71 percent of Australian-used IoT devices failed privacy probe

  23-09-2016 08:25 via zdnet.com
  
  71 percent of devices and services used by Australians did not provide a privacy policy nor a notice explaining how personal information is collected, used, and stored.
  
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• ASX Monday jitters a result of incomplete failover

  23-09-2016 08:13 via zdnet.com
  
  The ASX has laid out the series of events that led to the late opening and early closure of the market on Monday.
  
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• ​Samsung extends Note 7 refund deadline for X-ray battery testing

  23-09-2016 07:32 via zdnet.com
  
  Samsung has extended the refund deadline for the Galaxy Note 7 to the end of the month in South Korea as the government has ordered the company to do X-ray testing for the newly produced batteries.
  
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• Australians to transfer money using only mobile number or email in 2017: RBA

  23-09-2016 07:20 via zdnet.com
  
  Instant funds transfer between competing banks will be a reality for Australians next year, the Reserve Bank has said.
  
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