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• Here’s why the Cybertruck’s windows broke, according to Elon Musk

  25-11-2019 23:32
  
  One of the biggest selling points for Tesla’s new Cybertruck is that its glass is supposed to be near indestructible. So it didn’t go so well when during its live presentation, throwing a steel bass at the truck‘s window caused it to, umm, get destructed. Twice. To be fair, the steel ball Tesla was throwing at the window didn’t actually go through the window as it presumably would have on a normal car door. Tesla also demonstrated a naked sheet of the material emerging u
  
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• Netflix reopens the historic Paris Theatre to screen its original movies

  25-11-2019 23:15
  
  Netflix today announced it was reopening Manhattan‘s Paris Theatre indefinitely, and is making it into “a home for special Netflix events, screenings, and theatrical releases.” The theater currently hosts a limited run of Netflix Original Marriage Story. So yeah, the company that’s disrupting the tradition of theatrical film releases is now in the theater business. Netflix revealed it’d signed a lease agreement to “save the beloved institution&rdquo
  
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• Scientists developed a new AI framework to prevent machines from misbehaving

  25-11-2019 21:24
  
  They promised us the robots wouldn’t attack… In what seems like dialogue lifted straight from the pages of a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Stanford claim they’ve developed an algorithmic framework that guarantees AI won’t misbehave. The framework uses ‘Seldonian’ algorithms, named for the protagonist of Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” series, a continuation of the fictional
  
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• Facebook wants to pay you to answer social media questions

  25-11-2019 20:38
  
  We already know apps like Facebook try to learn as much about you as possible, so why not at least get paid for it? Facebook – now a rebranded corporate entity – today revealed a new app dubbed Facebook Viewpoints which pays you to participate in surveys, tasks, and research. The company claims “the best way to make products better is to get insights directly from the people who use them.” These insights will be used throughout the company’s portfolio, including In
  
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• The curious case of the vanishing Baby Yoda GIFs

  25-11-2019 19:53
  
  A strange thing happened over the weekend — GIFs of a certain character from Disney’s The Mandolorian disappeared from Giphy, and so far we don’t know exactly what happened. It’s such an oddly specific thing that many suspected copyright shenanigans, but even that is apparently not the case. While only three episodes have been released at the time of this writing, The Mandolorian is so far a decent show — but probably not for the reasons anyone suspe
  
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• Hackers demand $14M in Bitcoin to unlock systems for 110 nursing homes across US

  25-11-2019 19:24
  
  Hackers are demanding $14 million worth of Bitcoin to restore computers powering 110 nursing homes across the United States, putting the lives of patients at risk. In an interview with KrebsOnSecurity, Wisconsin-based IT company Virtual Care Provider Inc. (VCPI) confirmed that hackers have used the dreaded Ryuk ransomware to encrypt all of the data it hosts for clients. The firm estimated it maintains roughly 80,000 computers and servers powering care facilities across 45 US states. Ryuk i
  
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• We heard you liked sales so we’re reselling our sale

  25-11-2019 17:21
  
  We’re releasing a super limited release resale. Say that five times fast. Bet you can’t, but we bet you CAN save BIG! TNW2020’s 2-for-1 ticket resale is happening on November 28 at 15:00 CET. It’s your last chance to get them, and we only have less than 100 — so get in quick.  
  
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• Estonian crypto exchange was actually run by Israeli firm, employees claim

  25-11-2019 16:11
  
  After a petition by its own staff, an Israeli firm that runs a heavily-hyped cryptocurrency exchange is reportedly shutting down. The parent company of DX.Exchange, which traded asset-backed tokenized shares of Nasdaq listed companies, is entering bankruptcy after 78 of its staff petitioned to an Israeli court to “wind it up,” The Times of Israel reports. The petition, dated October 24, alleges that an Israeli company called CX Technologies Ltd. is behind DX.Exchange, rather than an
  
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• 1,300 adult performers accuse Instagram of unfairly deleting their accounts

  25-11-2019 15:19
  
  Over the past year, social networking platforms Facebook and Instagram have made it almost impossible for NSFW artists to exist on the platforms — from banning any discussion around “sexual preference,” “sexual roles,” “breasts,” and “buttocks” to the tech giant’s latest stunt in restricting solicitation that involves “sexual emoji or emoji strings.” Alongside strict guidelines, hundreds of porn stars and sex workers have c
  
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• Get these five highly-rated smartphone apps at Black Friday prices

  25-11-2019 14:30
  
  With offers slashing hundreds of dollars off each of these five deals, this is probably the best time all year to lock in some of the most vital security, productivity and personal growth apps anywhere at the lowest possible cost.
  
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• Hollywood exec embezzled $22M to gamble on cryptocurrency and play poker

  25-11-2019 13:45
  
  A former digital marketing executive has admitted to embezzling more than $22 million of his employer’s funds to use for cryptocurrency gambling and personal expenses. Cincinnati resident Daniel Bleiden pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft last week. He’d previously served as vice president of accounting and finance at StyleHaul, the seminal digital media company for the fashion, lifestyle, and beauty industries, which shut down earlier this year. The Departmen
  
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• Why mobile access won’t mend our ‘digital divide’ without fixed-line broadband

  25-11-2019 13:22
  
  Mobile services have had an important and positive impact on developing countries where they are the main means of connecting to the internet. However, mobile services have capacity constraints. They use limited radio frequency spectrum, which means that mobile data typically has usage limits. They also have high prices per unit (per gigabyte), which results in lower use per connection. Fixed-line broadband, on the other hand, has significantly lower prices per unit. It is often offered on an u
  
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• How DevOps and security teams can get along better

  25-11-2019 12:00
  
  Agile software development has been with us for nearly two decades since the original Manifesto was published. Software development and IT teams all strive for better software that responds to customer needs, broadly in line with the principles of agile. However, there are still problems that exist around the processes and politics of software.  DevOps can help here, with teams collaborating on how to get software out faster and more efficiently. Yet for IT security teams, the rise of DevO
  
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• The pros and cons of unsupervised learning in cybersecurity

  25-11-2019 11:53
  
  Cybercriminals continue to disrupt current defense mechanisms through new methods by exploiting vulnerabilities, especially in the overlapping areas of machine and human interactions. Cybersecurity software has matured well in terms of reacting to breaches based on signatures. This mode of operation is not sustainable—especially as bad actors and cybercriminals are creating more new ways to attack security systems than ever before. In many cases, it may take up to six months to even 
  
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• CHEAP: Good lord, there’s 25% off the latest iPad (IT’S ONLY $250!)

  25-11-2019 11:13
  
  Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! I’m a fan of tablets. There’s something about their notepad size and large screen that makes me feel like I’m a professional on some sort of futuristic space ship. Despite this, there is a downside in the real world though: what do you use them for? While tablets are nice to have, I’ve never found them to be a must. Phones are more portable, and laptops are more powerful, ki
  
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• Moonday Mornings: Racehorse mogul allegedly stole $100M from OneCoin, bought horses

  25-11-2019 11:09
  
  It’s the start of another week, which means we have another bunch of cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines from over the weekend to catch up on. It’s Moonday Mornings, take a look. 1. Racehorse buyer accused stealing from OneCoin scheme A high profile individual from the world of horse racing is believed to have been involved in the OneCoin scam. Amer Abdulaziz, the founder of Phoenix Thoroughbreds, a Dubai-based horse racing investment firm, is being accused of being a key figure
  
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• Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin hits lowest price in 195 days’

  25-11-2019 11:03
  
  Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Faraday used to say: We’re on the highway to hell, so let’s ride! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, November 24 2019, at a price of $7,047. That’s a notable 4.74 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$350.71. It was the lowest closing price in one hundred and
  
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