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• Cloudflare launches decentralized service for generating random numbers

  17-06-2019 23:34 via zdnet.com
  New "League of Entropy" service will generate a stream of random numbers using five servers located across the globe.
  
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• Microsoft acquires Pull Panda for code-review collaboration

  17-06-2019 19:48 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft is buying Pull Panda and immediately making all subscriptions to its tools available for free in the GitHub Marketplace.
  
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• A quarter of major CMSs use outdated MD5 as the default password hashing scheme

  17-06-2019 19:48 via zdnet.com
  Offenders include WordPress, osCommerce, SuiteCRM, Simple Machines Forum, miniBB, MyBB, SugarCRM, and others.
  
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• Apple's ground game versus Google's long game

  17-06-2019 19:41 via zdnet.com
  As Android has failed to expand far beyond smartphones, Apple has fortified a device ecosystem around pillars of related operating systems. Google sees AI as its wrecking ball.
  
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• Microsoft finally releases Hyper-V Server 2019

  17-06-2019 19:28 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft has made Hyper-V Server 201, which it first released last fall, available on its Evaluation Center and plans to deliver it to Visual Studio Subscription customers by June 19.
  
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• AT&T Business: Customer experience and digital transformation (CxOTalk interview)

  17-06-2019 18:32 via zdnet.com
  Learn how the Chief Marketing Officer of AT&T Business drives CX with organizational change at this huge company with $37 billion in revenue. He also talks about 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT).
  
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• Brazilian smartphone market grew in revenue in Q1 2019

  17-06-2019 18:26 via zdnet.com
  But the number of handsets sold in the country has dropped, says IDC
  
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• Edge of tomorrow: Industrial IoT slowly assembles new modes of production

  17-06-2019 18:07 via zdnet.com
  Industrial IoT may be slow to catch on, but serves as a proving ground that ultimately is reshaping the backbone of the producer economy.
  
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• AI's potential will only be realised when it collaborates with humans

  17-06-2019 17:54
  
  Automation and algorithms are most effective if they're used alongside human insights and creativity
  
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• Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says

  17-06-2019 16:55 via bbc.co.uk
  The technology company tweeted its QLED-branded sets should be scanned once every few weeks.
  
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• SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Google won't lift a finger

  17-06-2019 16:19 via zdnet.com
  First they hijacked my T-Mobile service, then they stole my Google and Twitter accounts and charged my bank with a $25,000 Bitcoin purchase. I'm stuck in my own personal Black Mirror episode. Why will no one help me?
  
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• iOS 13: Your iPhone could also be your passport and ID card

  17-06-2019 16:09 via zdnet.com
  iOS 13 will give open up the iPhone's ability to read more NFC tags… a feature that some Android smartphones already have.
  
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• Instagram to make hacked account recovery easier

  17-06-2019 14:50 via bbc.co.uk
  The photo platform is testing a new way to get back into hacked accounts.
  
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• Nvidia brings Arm support to its GPU platform for supercomputing

  17-06-2019 14:37 via zdnet.com
  Nvidia also unveiled what it says is the world's 22nd fastest supercomputer, the DGX SuperPOD.
  
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• Hacker conference speaker axed over abortion views

  17-06-2019 14:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Protests and a threatened boycott lead the Black Hat hacker conference to axe its keynote speaker.
  
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• Boris Johnson's full fibre plan needs more detail says industry

  17-06-2019 14:13 via bbc.co.uk
  Broadband providers say it will take more than money to achieve a "full fibre for all" by 2025 pledge.
  
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• IBM adding recommended bias monitors to Watson OpenScale

  17-06-2019 14:00 via zdnet.com
  These recommended bias monitors automatically identify attributes like sex, ethnicity, marital status and age and recommend they be monitored.
  
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• Lithuania: A discovery for industrial companies

  17-06-2019 13:24 via zdnet.com
  ROL, AQ wiring systems, IKEA Industry Lithuania, System Air, Dovista A/S – these are only several Scandinavian companies which have recently decided to start their business in Lithuania, one of the fastest growing countries in the European Union. Why did Scandinavian companies choose such a small Baltic country?
  
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• Game Over for GandCrab: New free decryption tool allows victims to unlock all versions of this ransomware

  17-06-2019 13:21 via zdnet.com
  Shortly after those behind GandCrab announced they are retiring, researchers have released a new tool which nullifies all versions of the ransomware.
  
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• Intel's cascade of data centre riches

  17-06-2019 13:13 via zdnet.com
  Customers will need to spend time matching Intel's new Cascade Lake processors to applications, and working out how best to deploy Optane DC memory, but there are real performance benefits to be had.
  
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• Apple's Tim Cook: Silicon Valley has created privacy-violating 'chaos factory'

  17-06-2019 13:06 via zdnet.com
  Time for tech companies to take responsibility for the digital privacy mess they're created, says Apple chief.
  
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• Huawei smartphone sales hit amid US curbs

  17-06-2019 13:05 via bbc.co.uk
  The founder of the Chinese telecoms giant says overseas sales of its mobile phones have sunk 40%.
  
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• Ready for takeoff: Airbus's sweeping mixed reality redesign

  17-06-2019 13:00 via zdnet.com
  With competitor Boeing on the ropes, Airbus and Microsoft try to reinvent the way planes are made.
  
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• CRM Watchlist 2019 winners: The big engines that could part one -- Infor and SAP

  17-06-2019 13:00 via zdnet.com
  SAP and Infor won the CRM Watchlist 2019 -- and they did so with some power. They both have some similar and some very very different reasons for their victory, but a victory nonetheless. SAP won, and they win more often than not, and here's why. Infor won, and they won for some truly distinctive reasons for their impact. Why? Read on.
  
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• Petaflop systems now dominate the supercomputer landscape

  17-06-2019 12:57 via zdnet.com
  For the first time, it is only petaflop systems that have made the TOP500 list.
  
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• Porn trolling lawyer jailed for 14 years

  17-06-2019 12:53 via bbc.co.uk
  A US lawyer who tricked people into paying for films he helped pirate gets a 14-year jail sentence.
  
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• Equifax breach impacted the online ID verification process at many US govt agencies

  17-06-2019 12:31 via zdnet.com
  Impacted agencies include the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Social Security Administration (SSA), the US Postal Service (USPS), and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
  
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• Huawei will not be beaten to death despite $30b hit: Ren Zhengfei

  17-06-2019 10:44 via zdnet.com
  Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei says the company was unprepared for the strength of the US restrictions.
  
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• Houdini malware targets victims with keylogger, online bank account theft tools

  17-06-2019 10:30 via zdnet.com
  The new Trojan variant is actively striking commercial banking customers.
  
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• New Echobot malware is a smorgasbord of vulnerabilities

  17-06-2019 10:20 via zdnet.com
  Security researchers spot new Mirai variant called Echobot that targets a wide range of IoT devices and enterprise apps.
  
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• Boom Supersonic, Stratasys extend 3D printing deal

  17-06-2019 09:00 via zdnet.com
  Boom Supersonic will use Stratasys' F900 3D printer to create hundreds of parts for a demonstrator supersonic jet.
  
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• Oregon State University breach exposed student, family data

  17-06-2019 08:49 via zdnet.com
  OSU is one of several US universities impacted by data breaches in recent weeks.
  
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• Monday briefing: Huawei delays launch of folding Mate X

  17-06-2019 08:39
  
  The Chinese firm's flexible flagship has been delayed until September, Julian Assange's extradition hearing is scheduled for February 2020
  
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• Mermaids transgender charity data breach exposed confidential emails

  17-06-2019 08:08 via zdnet.com
  Private emails between the charity and parents were reportedly available for public viewing.
  
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• Take an exclusive look inside Nasa's colossal, unseen archives

  17-06-2019 07:00
  
  Benedict Redgrove has spent nine years photographing Nasa's vast, untouched archives. Here he reveals the spacesuits, engines, and rubber stamps that took men to the Moon
  
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• Inside the urgent battle to stop UK police using facial recognition

  17-06-2019 07:00
  
  UK police use of live facial recognition technology is expanding, but the law around it is still unclear. Now legal cases are challenging its legitimacy
  
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• Four of the best life hacks from the world's extreme productivity gurus

  17-06-2019 07:00
  
  These extreme life hackers optimise their time for sleep, data analysis and high-stakes risks
  
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• A radical design overhaul is transforming women's watches

  17-06-2019 07:00
  
  Brands are being bolder about exposing mechanics in women’s watches to surprisingly beautiful effect
  
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• SK Telecom to collaborate with Nokia and Ericsson in 6G research

  17-06-2019 04:57 via zdnet.com
  They will also work together to improve SK Telecom's 5G networks.
  
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• Intel announces program to help Israeli AI startups

  17-06-2019 03:53 via zdnet.com
  The company will provide 10 to 15 startups with mentorship from Intel and industry experts.
  
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• Reported losses from NBN scams increase by nearly 300% in 2019: ACCC

  17-06-2019 03:12 via zdnet.com
  Consumers lost more than AU$110,000 each month in the January to May period.
  
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• 5G just part of technology's 'new Cold War frontline'

  17-06-2019 02:25 via zdnet.com
  As nations search for technology that 'confers a decisive strategic advantage' in controlling the 'global digital commons', the global political trends are reminiscent of the 1930s.
  
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• Vocus loses another potential suitor as AGL walks away

  17-06-2019 02:07 via zdnet.com
  AGL states it is no longer confident its proposal would create value.
  
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• Dutton's non-denial fuels fears of domestic ASD cyber spying

  17-06-2019 01:53 via zdnet.com
  The Australian government could avoid so much grief about surveillance if it stopped being so paranoid about discussing its ideastransparently -- unless it really does intend to do something dodgy.
  
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• How Salesforce got its developer conference right, while Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Google lost their way

  17-06-2019 00:00 via zdnet.com
  Salesforce made developers and admins the stars at TrailheaDX 2019. Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Facebook failed to do the same at their developer conferences.
  
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