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• Adobe releases out-of-band update to patch ColdFusion zero-day

  01-03-2019 22:41 via zdnet.com
  ColdFusion developers spot new zero-day exploited in the wild.
  
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• Russia limits operations of foreign communications satellite operators

  01-03-2019 21:53 via zdnet.com
  The Kremlin will require foreign satellite operators to go through an approval process and build local ground stations.
  
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• Lyft's IPO filing reveals nearly $1B in net losses in 2018

  01-03-2019 19:22 via zdnet.com
  The ride-hailing service is growing its market share and revenues are growing quickly, but it's still posting major losses
  
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• Chrome and Firefox are borrowing from each other's performance features

  01-03-2019 18:03 via zdnet.com
  Chrome to get back/forward caching from Firefox, and Firefox to get unused tab unloading from Chrome.
  
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• eBay considers another corporate split

  01-03-2019 18:00 via zdnet.com
  The company said its board has approved a "strategic review" of eBay's assets, including StubHub and eBay Classifieds Group.
  
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• The Industrial Internet of Things: A guide to deployments, vendors and platforms

  01-03-2019 17:04 via zdnet.com
  Although many IIoT projects are still in the proof-of-concept or trial stage, there are clear signs of a widespread move towards full production deployments. The relevant technologies are available, investment decisions have been made, and returns on those investments are expected.
  
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• Survey: Industrial IoT deployment thriving

  01-03-2019 17:04 via zdnet.com
  A recent Tech Pro Research survey shows that industries recognize the value of IoT and are keen to adopt devices.
  
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• Free PDF download: The Rise of Industrial IoT

  01-03-2019 17:03 via zdnet.com
  This special report from ZDNet and TechRepublic explores how, why, and when industries will adopt theInternet of Things. Download it as a free PDF ebook.
  
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• Technology and the Arts: Celebrating Ballerina, a computer language of integration

  01-03-2019 16:10 via zdnet.com
  WSO2's open source Ballerina -- a cloud native computer language -- helps integrate the tech community and the arts world in San Francisco, with an unique performance by the San Francisco Ballet.
  
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• More than just a giant smartphone: Pulse Smart Hubs offer maps, phone calls and defibrillators alongside the ads

  01-03-2019 15:58 via zdnet.com
  The London-based Urban Innovation Company is now installing up to 30 Pulse Smart Hubs on the streets of Belfast.
  
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• RSA Security Conference: The race to plug a $6 trillion security hole

  01-03-2019 15:43 via zdnet.com
  The world's largest security conference is coming up -- but the security hole becomes larger every year.
  
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• The weird spread of the Momo Challenge: Podcast 407

  01-03-2019 15:15
  
  Coming up today: the weird story of the Momo challenge; Revolut insiders reveal the human cost of a fintech unicorn’s wild rise; and we explain how a network of peadophiles was using YouTube to prey on children
  
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• Here's how to securely wipe your Android smartphone for resale

  01-03-2019 15:09 via zdnet.com
  Got your eye on a new Android smartphone? Here's how to wipe your existing smartphone so you can sell it or pass it on to a family member or friend without giving them all your data as well.
  
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• Monster BeagleBone AI crams computer-vision engine onto Raspberry Pi-style board

  01-03-2019 14:49 via zdnet.com
  BeagleBoard AI offers developers a single-board computer that's customized for artificial-intelligence applications.
  
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• Linux servers targeted by new Chinese crypto-mining group

  01-03-2019 14:48 via zdnet.com
  Researchers discover new Antd crypto-mining malware targeting Linux systems.
  
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• Galaxy S10 ships with screen protector as others may block fingerprint sensor

  01-03-2019 14:07 via zdnet.com
  Samsung wants Galaxy S10 buyers to only use its own screen protectors, which cost $30 but the first one's free.
  
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• So long Amazon Dash button: An experiment that delivered intangible value to Amazon on many fronts

  01-03-2019 14:02 via zdnet.com
  Amazon's Dash button was a marketing vehicle and a trinket designed to remind you that you could easily replenish supplies and order consumer product goods via Amazon.
  
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• Banning comments won't fix YouTube's paedophile problem. Its algorithm is totally broken

  01-03-2019 13:55
  
  Disabling comments on all videos of minors on YouTube is using a blunt instrument to tackle a precise problem
  
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• Is technology changing the way we love?

  01-03-2019 13:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Technology has changed the way the world looks at love and relationships. Paromita Vohra, filmmaker and educator on love and relationships, certainly agrees.
  
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• Hands-on with Microsoft HoloLens 2: More comfortable, more intuitive and more potential

  01-03-2019 13:27 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft's mixed-reality headset feels like an improvement on the original - but can it make the jump to the mainstream?
  
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• FAA's awful drone app B4UFLY to undergo private sector revamp

  01-03-2019 13:25 via zdnet.com
  "As near as I can tell, no part of this app is completely functional and most of the parts that do work just open a website inside the app."
  
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• These are the best noise-cancelling headphones in 2019

  01-03-2019 13:18
  
  WIRED Recommends the best noise-cancelling headphones to drown out the racket
  
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• Brazilian government seeks tech-based ideas to contain public spending

  01-03-2019 12:53 via zdnet.com
  A two-day event including a hackathon aimed to optimize resource utilization within government bodies.
  
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• Elon Musk: $35,000 Tesla Model 3 arrives but job cuts coming as sales shift online

  01-03-2019 12:52 via zdnet.com
  Tesla to slash sales force now that the Model 3 electric car is finally ready to order.
  
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• Retail industry endures new point-of-sale cybercrime spree

  01-03-2019 12:47 via zdnet.com
  The harvest of sensitive data is at hand, but it is not certain who is behind the campaign.
  
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• Amazon stops selling Dash buttons

  01-03-2019 12:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Amazon stops selling its Dash buttons because shoppers are using other methods to buy products.
  
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• IT security: Five essential steps to keep the hackers at bay

  01-03-2019 12:27 via zdnet.com
  Keeping a whole organisation secure from malware and other security incidents is hard. But covering these basics will go a long way towards it.
  
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• London has the most tech unicorns in Europe, but Brexit may change that

  01-03-2019 12:16 via zdnet.com
  More billion-dollar tech companies call London home than any other European capital – but will leaving the EU frighten them off?
  
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• Dow Jones watchlist of high-risk financial connections leaked online

  01-03-2019 11:47 via zdnet.com
  The watchlist is used by financial companies to search for high-risk individuals.
  
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• Instagram biggest for child grooming online - NSPCC finds

  01-03-2019 10:39 via bbc.co.uk
  Facebook and Snapchat are warned too, after cases including a girl lured to woods "for sex" then abandoned.
  
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• 19-year-old makes millions from ethical hacking

  01-03-2019 10:09 via zdnet.com
  The Argentine teenager has topped the charts when it comes to bug bounty hunting.
  
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• ‘Breathing’ robot pillow could aid sleep and other news

  01-03-2019 09:11 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the best tech news stories of the week.
  
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• Friday briefing: YouTube will no longer allow comments on videos of children

  01-03-2019 08:35
  
  To tackle paedophiles, YouTube will close all but a select few moderated comments sections on videos featuring kids; Facebook is developing its own cryptocurrency
  
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• The Polestar 2 saloon is coming to take on Tesla's Model 3

  01-03-2019 07:00
  
  The all-electric second car from Volvo's high-brow sibling has finally arrived - and it's not an SUV but a 408hp, 500km-range saloon looking to square up to Elon Musk's EV for the masses
  
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• Samsung Galaxy S10+ review: high quality, high price, low innovation

  01-03-2019 07:00
  
  Incremental gains aren't exciting, but with the best image stabilisation seen in a phone ever, the new flagship still has some tricks up its sleeve
  
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• Quantum computers could be the ultimate defence against the next global financial crisis

  01-03-2019 07:00
  
  Super-fast computers could make financial firms much better at calculating risk – helping to avoid the calamitous events of the 2008 financial crash
  
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• New tech for the super-old is here to get centenarians online

  01-03-2019 07:00
  
  Specialist phones and tablets designed for elderly people often have an upper age limit. Can even more specialist tech help?
  
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• Do high-tech laboratories actually help scientists do better work?

  01-03-2019 07:00
  
  Gorgeous laboratories – with architectural features that can rival museums – have become the new norm
  
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• Coles signs up Optus for business connectivity deal

  01-03-2019 06:39 via zdnet.com
  Coles stores to get NBN fibre connections with Optus acting as retailer and enterprise mobile connectivity provider.
  
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• ANU claims Australians want government to use data for better-targeted benefits

  01-03-2019 06:34 via zdnet.com
  Respondents to its survey said they wanted the data to be used to make sure the right people were receiving the right benefits, the Australian National University has reported.
  
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• A Berkeley mash-up of AI approaches promises continuous learning

  01-03-2019 05:59 via zdnet.com
  The team of professor Sergey Levine at University of California at Berkeley engineered a novel mash-up of two machine learning tasks, resulting in ways to have a computer continually update its ability to generalize from one learned task to another.
  
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• New Thai laws allow government to access information without warrants: Report

  01-03-2019 05:50 via zdnet.com
  Government will be able to seize, search, infiltrate, and make copies of computers, computer systems, and information in computers without a court warrant, Reuters has reported.
  
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• TPG-Vodafone merger provisional decision put off again

  01-03-2019 04:45 via zdnet.com
  New provisional date to be set once information from telcos is received by the ACCC.
  
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• Social media firms 'must tackle grooming'

  01-03-2019 04:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Charity demands action after 5,000 online grooming offences were recorded by police in 18 months.
  
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• Survey: the pressure is on IT to deliver digital transformation

  01-03-2019 03:23 via zdnet.com
  IT is being asked to transform their businesses, but not getting the budget to do so, survey finds.
  
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• How one teenager is making millions by hacking legally

  01-03-2019 02:36 via bbc.co.uk
  19-year-old Santiago Lopez is the first to make over a million dollars breaking into IT software.
  
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• Huawei pleads not guilty to stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile

  01-03-2019 01:41 via zdnet.com
  A trial has been set for March 2, 2020.
  
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• Software update takes out NBN satellite users

  01-03-2019 01:37 via zdnet.com
  Remedy offered to users still affected is to power cycle modem and NBN network termination device.
  
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• How you could control your world with just your fingertips

  01-03-2019 01:11 via bbc.co.uk
  Tapping on a keyboard has been the standard way to interact with computers, but that is changing.
  
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• CSIRO's CUNE uses artificial intelligence to find disease genes

  01-03-2019 01:07 via zdnet.com
  CUNE uses AI to provide a more reliable way to recreate gene mutations in the lab.
  
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