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"Four U.S. SenatorS today urged the Federal Trade CommiSSion to inveStigate claimS that the very popular video app TikTok, which iS owned by a company tied to China'S military and government, violated a conSent decree to protect children'S privacy."

"India has started using a system that allows security agencies and income tax officials to directly intercept phone calls and emails without any court or legislative oversight, Reuters reported this summer."

"A woman who held jobs at a supermarket and a halfway house took down credit card information of customers at NTUC FairPrice, created an EZ-Link mobile account with details from a halfway house resident and combined the two to make s$41,330 worth of unauthorised EZ-Link top-ups."

"A report from the Oxford Martin School'S Programme on the ImpactS of Future Technology Said that 47 percent of all jobS in the U.S. are likely to be replaced by automated SyStemS. Among the jobS Soon to be replaced by machineS are real eState brokerS, animal breederS, tax adviSerS, data entry workerS, receptioniStS and variouS perSonal aSSiStantS."

"This person or group, who go by the names BestBuy and Popopret, recently spammed an ad to folks on Jabber, an instant messaging service. They offered to perform a distributed denial of service (DDos) attack on whomever their client(s) wanted, and they backed up their offer by claiming to wield the ability to perform some of the strongest DDos attacks ever seen. Recent events in the history of the internet show us that these kind of attacks - if these hackers indeed have the power they claim - can wreak internet havoc by blocking user access to a range of some of the web's most popular destinations."

"That is when the alarm bells went off for Mr Ang. "I saw that there was a text file inside the encrypted folder that showed that it was ransomware, asking for payment to decrypt the files." The company decided not to pay the ransom of Us$1,000 (s$1,447). Instead, it spent a week rebuilding about 3,000 infected files with data of the accounts and stocks from hard copy files."

"Ringing Bells also plans to sell other more expensive handsets - ranging in price up to about $100 (£75) - at a profit. But, with just over a week to go until Freedom 251's launch, critics remain unconvinced. "I find it difficult to believe that any sort of phone can be manufactured for 251 rupees, so it's difficult to see what kind of business model they have," says Pranav Dixit, a tech expert at the news site Factor Daily."

"75% 75% surveyed by Ipsos/Reuters said, "they would not let investigators tap into their Internet activity to help the U.s. combat domestic terrorism"(up from 67% in 20"

"In terms of safety, a 2013 Navigant Research report noted "the potential for greatly reduced accident rates." such potential rests on the basic logic of driving: Good driving relies on physics calculations; bad driving happens thanks to human physical limitations like intoxication and sleepiness."

"But which parts of an individual's anatomy are truly unchangeable, even as he or she ages and potentially undergoes plastic surgery?"

"There it is. If you run a business, and the FBI or NsA want to turn it into a mass surveillance tool, they believe they can do so, solely on their own initiative. They can force you to modify your system. They can do it all in secret and then force your business to keep that secret. Once they do that, you no longer control that part of your business. You can't shut it down. You can't terminate part of your service. In a very real sense, it is not your business anymore. It is an arm of the vast U.s. surveillance apparatus, and if your interest conflicts with theirs then they win. Your business has been commandeered."

"China is home to the world's largest population of digital natives, totaling more than 75 million people - that's almost twice as many as the U.s., which has more than 41 million."

"In Eric S. Raymond'S Seminal eSSay on open Source, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, he defineS LinuS'S Law (named for the father of the Linux kernel, LinuS TorvaldS), which StateS that "given enough eyeballS, all bugS are Shallow." In other wordS. If enough uSerS are looking at the code, bugS and problemS will be found."

New York healthcare provider, California's higher education system and the U.s. Department of Energy have become the latest targets of data bandits.

Apple is offering a free case to tackle the iPhone 4's antenna problem, but will the fault damage the technology giant's reputation?Apple called a press conference at which the case offer was made in response to ongoing speculation about the phone's problems, and boss steve Jobs also offered a full refund for the handset.

"Unskilled manual laborers have felt the pressure of automation for a long time - but, increasingly, they're not alone. The last few years have been a bonanza of advances in artificial intelligence. As our software gets smarter, it can tackle harder problems, which means white-collar and pink-collar workers are at risk as well. Here are eight jobs expected to be automated (partially or entirely) in the coming decades. Call Center Employees call-center Telemarketing used to happen in a crowded call center, with a group of representatives cold-calling hundreds of prospects every day. Of those, maybe a few dozen could be persuaded to buy the product in question. Today, the idea is largely the same, but the methods are far more efficient. Many of today's telemarketers are not human. In some cases, as you've probably experienced, there's nothing but a recording on the other end of the line. It may prompt you to "press '1' for more information," but nothing you say has any impact on the call - and, usually, that's clear to you. But in other cases, you may get a sales call and have no idea that you're actually speaking to a computer. Everything you say gets an appropriate response - the voice may even laugh. How is that possible? Well, in some cases, there is a human being on the other side, and they're just pressing buttons on a keyboard to walk you through a pre-recorded but highly interactive marketing pitch. It's a more practical version of those funny soundboards that used to be all the rage for prank calls. Using soundboard-assisted calling - regardless of what it says about the state of human interaction - has the potential to make individual call center employees far more productive: in some cases, a single worker will run two or even three calls at the same time. In the not too distant future, computers will be able to man the phones by themselves. At the intersection of big data, artificial intelligence, and advanced

"At 221 of the Fortune 500 companies, Fortune magazine's list of the the top 500 U.s. public corporations ranked by gross revenue, employees' credentials are posted publicly online for hackers to steal and reuse in cyberattacks, according to new research from the web intelligence firm Recorded Future. "

""All passwords are Diceware generated and contain six words," Mira says on her website. "I write the passwords by hand and do not keep a copy of what I have sent to you. The passwords are sent by U.s. Postal Mail, which cannot be opened by the government without a search warrant." she also recommends you alter the pass phrase slightly after she sends it to you."