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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Global heatmap published by fitness tracking app Strava last November can be used to locate military bases around the world, map soldier jogging routes — Data about exercise routes shared online by soldiers can be used to pinpoint overseas facilities — Sensitive information about the location …
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| New York Times: |
How Devumi uses its 3.5M+ automated Twitter accounts, sometimes based on stolen social identities, to sell followers and retweets to 200K+ customers — Everyone wants to be popular online. — Some even pay for it. — Inside social media's black market.
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| Axios: |
Memo by a NSC official that's circulating in the Trump administration proposes government pay for and build a nationwide 5G network in 3 years to fend off China — Trump national security officials are considering an unprecedented federal takeover of a portion of the nation's mobile network …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Intel warned China's Lenovo and Alibaba about Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities before warning the US government — Decision to disclose issue to select few customers, including Lenovo and Alibaba, has ripple effects through security and tech industries
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
US Secret Service warning financial institutions about “jackpotting” attacks targeting US ATMs; source close to the matter says Ploutus.D malware is being used — ATM “jackpotting” — a sophisticated crime in which thieves install malicious software and/or hardware at ATMs …
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter tells Congress that Russia-linked bots retweeted @realDonaldTrump 469,537 times and @HillaryClinton 47,846 times from September 1 to November 15, 2016 — Russian-linked accounts spurred 50,000 retweets of Clinton — Information comes in response to questions from Congress
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| Jan Wolfe / Reuters: |
New Copyright Royalty Board ruling requires streaming services to give 15.1%, up from 10.5%, of revenue to songwriters and music publishers over next five years — (Reuters) - U.S. copyright authorities on Saturday decided to increase over the next five years the royalty payments music streaming companies …
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| Paris Martineau / The Outline: |
Inside the cryptocurrency pump and dump chat groups, where tens of thousands of traders meet to hype coin prices, before dumping them minutes later — Inside the group chats where people pump and dump cryptocurrency — How self-proclaimed “pump and dump groups” scam thousands of wannabe altcoin investors.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
AI advances are now making automated analysis of live surveillance video possible, presaging useful applications while raising serious questions about privacy — What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match? — We usually think of surveillance cameras as digital eyes …
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| Robert Draper / National Geographic: |
Tweets: @susanbgoldberg, @dirka, @model_the_world, @natgeomaps, @natgeomaps, @natgeomaps, and @stevecase
| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google's AI-powered Clips camera is now available in the US Google Store for $249, with first deliveries expected in March — Three months ago Google announced the Google Clips, a tiny clip-on camera powered by some impressive machine learning technology. The idea behind it was that rather … | Josh Lovejoy / Google Design: |
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Tweets: @jdlovejoy, @mvitazko, and @thesignoffive
| Jordan Kisner / The Guardian: |
Profile of VocaliD, which uses a crowdsourced voice library to craft custom voices for speech-impaired users of type-to-talk devices — Millions are robbed of the power of speech by illness, injury or lifelong conditions. Can the creation of bespoke digital voices transform their ability to communicate?| Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says it will repay all 260K users who lost money in Friday's theft of ~$400M in NEM coins — Users will receive 88.549 yen for each coin that was stolen — Japanese exchange will compensate clients using internal funds
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Coincheck, SiliconANGLE, Ubergizmo, BBC, The Verge, SlashGear, Neowin, NewsBTC, Engadget, Cointelegraph.com News, Crunchbase News, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, and South China Morning Post
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