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• Anker's Eufy Cameras Caught Uploading Content To the Cloud Without User Consent

  29-11-2022 23:25 via yro.slashdot.org
  Anker's popular Eufy-branded security cameras appear to be sending some data to the cloud, even when cloud storage is disabled and local only storage settings are turned on. MacRumors reports: The information comes from security consultant Paul Moore, who last week published a video outlining the issue. According to Moore, he purchased a Eufy Doorbell Dual, which was meant to be a device that stored video recording on device. He found that Eufy is uploading thumbnail images of faces and user inf
  
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• Influencers Were Paid By Google To Promote a Pixel Phone They Never Used

  29-11-2022 22:45 via mobile.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google and iHeartMedia -- the US's biggest radio station operator -- are being hit with a false advertising lawsuit for ads they ran about the Pixel 4 [...]. The FTC and four states say the companies aired "nearly 29,000 deceptive endorsements by radio personalities" during 2019 and 2020, with Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Samuel Levine saying that "Google and iHeartMedia paid influencers to promote products they never used, showing
  
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• Amazon's New Chip Moves AWS Into High-Performance Computing

  29-11-2022 20:02 via tech.slashdot.org
  Amazon's cloud-computing unit is rolling out new chips designed to power the highest-end of computing, supporting tasks such as weather forecasting and gene sequencing. From a report: Amazon Web Services, the largest provider of over-the-internet computing, on Monday said it would let customers rent computing power that relies on a new version of its Graviton chips. Peter DeSantis, a senior vice president who oversees most of AWS's engineering teams, said in an interview that the product is a sp
  
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• China Launches Astronauts To Newly Completed Space Station

  29-11-2022 19:11 via science.slashdot.org
  Tall as a 20-story building, a rocket carrying the Shenzhou 15 mission roared into the night sky of the Gobi Desert on Tuesday, carrying three astronauts toward a rendezvous with China's just-completed space station. From a report: The rocket launch was a split-screen event for China, the latest in a long series of technological achievements for the country, even as many of its citizens have been angrily lashing out in the streets against stringent pandemic controls.The air shook as the huge whi
  
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• FTX-backed DEX Serum Calls Itself 'Defunct,' Promotes Community Fork

  29-11-2022 18:28 via tech.slashdot.org
  Serum, a decentralized crypto exchange backed by FTX, notified its 215,000 Twitter followers the project is "defunct" after the crypto exchange giant's sudden collapse -- while pointing users towards a community-led fork of the project. From a report: "The Serum program on mainnet became defunct" following FTX's implosion, Serum tweeted. "As upgrade authority is held by FTX, security is in jeopardy, leading to protocols like Jupiter and Radium moving away," it added, referring to two DeFi projec
  
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• UK Waters Down Internet Rules Plan After Free Speech Outcry

  29-11-2022 17:53 via news.slashdot.org
  The British government has abandoned a plan to force tech firms to remove internet content that is harmful but legal, after the proposal drew strong criticism from lawmakers and civil liberties groups. From a report: The U.K. on Tuesday defended its decision to water down the Online Safety Bill, an ambitious but controversial attempt to crack down on online racism, sexual abuse, bullying, fraud and other harmful material. Similar efforts are underway in the European Union and the United States,
  
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• CISA Releases Seven Industrial Control Systems Advisories

  29-11-2022 17:31 via us-cert.cisa.gov
  Original release date: November 29, 2022
  CISA released seven (7) Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on November 29, 2022. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS.CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations:ICSA-22-333-01 Mitsubishi Electric GOT2000ICSA-22-333-02 Hitachi Energys IED Connectivity Packages and PCM600 ProductsICSA-22
  
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• Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor Assets To Bring Zero-Knowledge Encryption To File Storage

  29-11-2022 17:15 via hardware.slashdot.org
  Dropbox has announced plans to bring end-to-end encryption to its business users, and it's doing so through acquiring "key assets" from Germany-based cloud security company Boxcryptor. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. From a report: Dropbox is well-known for its cloud-based file back-up and sharing services, and while it does offer encryption for files moving between its servers and the destination, Dropbox itself has access to the keys and can technically view any content passing through.
  
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• AWS Announces Digital Sovereignty Pledge

  29-11-2022 16:55 via tech.slashdot.org
  AWS has announced its "AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge." From a report: As nations across the globe introduce legislation that governs how and where businesses can keep data on their local users, the large clouds either have to offer attractive solutions or run the risk of having their customers move to local clouds. Microsoft, with Purview, and Google, with Dataplex, also offer data governance tools, but none of them have gone quite as far as AWS in making digital sovereignty a core pillar of th
  
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• India To Start Pilot of Retail Digital Currency on Dec 1

  29-11-2022 15:51 via news.slashdot.org
  The Reserve Bank of India's first pilot for a retail e-rupee, its version of the central bank digital currency (CBDC), will be launched on Dec. 1, it said in a statement on Tuesday. From a report: The pilot will cover select locations in a closed user group comprising participating customers and merchants, the central bank said. "It would be issued in the same denominations that paper currency and coins are currently issued," the statement added. "It would be distributed through intermediaries s
  
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• Netflix Nights Still Come Wrapped in Red-and-White Envelopes

  29-11-2022 15:00 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  Netflix's trailblazing DVD-by-mail rental service has been relegated as a relic in the age of video streaming, but there is still a steady -- albeit shrinking -- audience of diehards who are happily paying to receive those discs in the iconic red-and-white envelopes. From a report: Netflix declined to comment for this story but during a 2018 media event, co-founder and co-CEO of Netflix Reed Hastings suggested the DVD-by-mail service might close around 2023. When -- not if -- it happens, Netflix
  
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• Nvidia AI Plays Minecraft, Wins AI Conference Award

  29-11-2022 14:00 via slashdot.org
  A paper describing MineDojo, Nvidia's generalist AI agent that can perform actions from written prompts in Minecraft, won an Outstanding Datasets and Benchmarks Paper Award at the 2022 NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) conference, Nvidia revealed on Monday. Ars Technica reports: To train the MineDojo framework to play Minecraft, researchers fed it 730,000 Minecraft YouTube videos (with more than 2.2 billion words transcribed), 7,000 scraped webpages from the Minecraft wiki, and 340
  
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• Artemis: NASA's Orion Capsule Breaks Distance Record

  29-11-2022 11:00 via science.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The US space agency's Orion capsule has reached a key milestone on its demonstration mission around the Moon. On Monday, it moved some 430,000km (270,000 miles) beyond the Earth -- the furthest any spacecraft designed to carry humans has travelled. The ship is uncrewed on this occasion, but if it completes the current flight without incident, astronauts will be on the next outing in two years' time. [...] The previous record for the most distant
  
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• Rolls-Royce Successfully Tests Hydrogen-Powered Jet Engine

  29-11-2022 08:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  Britain's Rolls-Royce said it has successfully run an aircraft engine on hydrogen, a world aviation first that marks a major step towards proving the gas could be key to decarbonizing air travel. Reuters reports: The ground test, using a converted Rolls-Royce AE 2100-A regional aircraft engine, used green hydrogen created by wind and tidal power, the British company said on Monday. Rolls and its testing program partner easyJet are seeking to prove that hydrogen can safely and efficiently deliver
  
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• Japanese Researchers Faked Data In Spaceflight Simulation

  29-11-2022 04:30 via science.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says a team of researchers fabricated the results of an experiment, led by one of its astronauts, that sought to simulate daily life on board the International Space Station (ISS). JAXA stated that it would subject astronaut Satoshi Furukawa to disciplinary action over data tampering, Japanese media reported. The experiment in question, conducted between 2016 and 2017, involved 40 participants who wer
  
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• BlockFi Sues FTX's Bankman-Fried Over Shares In Robinhood

  29-11-2022 03:02 via yro.slashdot.org
  Newly-bankrupt crypto lending platform BlockFi has filed a lawsuit against Sam Bankman-Fried's holding company Emergent Fidelity Technologies seeking his shares in Robinhood that were pledged as collateral earlier in November. CoinTelegraph reports: The suit was filed on Nov. 28 in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey just hours after BlockFi filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the same court. As per the filing, BlockFi is demanding Emergent turnover collateral as par
  
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• UK Ditches Ban On 'Legal But Harmful' Online Content In Favor of Free Speech

  29-11-2022 02:25 via news.slashdot.org
  Britain will not force tech giants to remove content that is "legal but harmful" from their platforms after campaigners and lawmakers raised concerns that the move could curtail free speech, the government said on Monday. Reuters reports: Online safety laws would instead focus on the protection of children and on ensuring companies removed content that was illegal or prohibited in their terms of service, it said, adding that it would not specify what legal content should be censored. Platform ow
  
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• Media Groups Urge US To Drop Julian Assange Charges

  29-11-2022 01:45 via news.slashdot.org
  The US government must drop its prosecution of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange because it is undermining press freedom, according to the media organizations that first helped him publish leaked diplomatic cables. The Guardian reports: Twelve years ago today, the Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and El Pais collaborated to release excerpts from 250,000 documents obtained by Assange in the "Cablegate" leak. The material, leaked to WikiLeaks by the then American soldier
  
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• Comcast's Sneaky Broadcast TV Fee Hits $27, Making a Mockery of Advertised Rates

  29-11-2022 01:02 via news.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Comcast "Broadcast TV" fee that isn't included in the company's advertised prices is rising again, tacking as much as $27 onto the monthly bills of cable TV users. Comcast's Broadcast TV and Regional Sports Network fees combined could add nearly $40 to a customer's monthly TV bill after next month's price hikes, all while Comcast advertises much lower prices than people actually pay. "Comcast has started notifying customers and municipal
  
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• Major Canadian Crypto Exchange Coinsquare Says Client Data Breached

  29-11-2022 00:20 via yro.slashdot.org
  Coinsquare, one of Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, may have been breached, but the company claims customer assets are "secure in cold storage and are not at risk." CoinDesk reports: The exchange, which touts itself as "Canada's trusted platform to securely buy, sell and trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more," emailed customers Friday to report a "data incident" in which an unauthorized third party accessed a customer database containing personal information. According to the email, the br
  
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