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Penn News | Penn Study: Americans Give Up Personal Data for Discounts, They Believe Mar... - 0 views

www.upenn.edu/...e-marketers-will-get-it-anyway

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  • dr tech on 10 Jun 15
     
    "The survey found that more than half of Americans say they do not want to lose control over their information but also believe this loss of control has already happened. Turow argues that marketers misrepresent Americans' behaviors by categorizing their acceptance of company discounts in exchange for personal data as rational acceptance of "tradeoffs."
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Try, Robot: Darpa contest sends new humanoids into 'nuclear reactor' | Technology | The... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...test-humanoids-nuclear-reactor

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  • dr tech on 09 Jun 15
     
    "Engineers tried to help, but no robots could navigate the hazardous terrain and disaster ensued, rendering a huge area around the plant uninhabitable after toxic steam exploded into the skies. The radioactive leftovers are still emitting a million watts of heat."
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Internet-connected hospital drug pumps vulnerable to remote lethal-dose attacks - Boing... - 0 views

boingboing.net/...net-connected-hospital-dr.html

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shared by dr tech on 09 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 09 Jun 15
     
    "Researcher Billy Rios (previously) has extended his work on vulnerabilities in hospital drug pumps, discovering a means by which their firmware can be remotely overwritten with new code that can result in lethal overdoses for patients. "
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'Ransomware-as-a-service' discovered on the darknet | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-service-discovered-on-darknet

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shared by dr tech on 04 Jun 15 - Cached
  • dr tech on 04 Jun 15
     
    "Branded as "Tox", the tool lets anyone, regardless of technical ability, automatically create ransomware: software which encrypts a victim's hard drive and demands payment before decrypting it."
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Tomorrow's Surveillance: Four Technologies The NSA Will Use to Spy on You - Soon - 0 views

www.makeuseof.com/...nsa-will-using-next-five-years

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shared by dr tech on 02 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 02 Jun 15
     
    "The NSA's plans don't end with collecting your phone records. Here are just a few of the ways the National Security Agency (NSA) will be keeping tabs on you in the world of tomorrow. Prepare to be shocked, amazed, and a little freaked out."
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Computers are now better than humans at recognising images | Global | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...than-humans-recognising-images

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shared by dr tech on 13 May 15 - Cached
  • dr tech on 13 May 15
     
    "It might not sound like much, but the success of the Minwa supercomputer, which can sort a million images into a thousand predefined categories with an error rate less than the typical human, makes it the latest secret weapon of the company known as "China's Google", Baidu."
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Algorithm knows you're drunk just by looking at you - Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...gorithm-knows-youre-drunk.html

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shared by dr tech on 30 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 30 Apr 15
     
    "built an algorithm that can determine with 90 percent accuracy whether a person is drunk or not based on an infrared image of his or her face."
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Want To Plant One Billion Trees In A Single Year? Try Drones.  | GOOD - 0 views

magazine.good.is/...ing-to-plant-one-billion-trees

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  • dr tech on 23 Apr 15
     
    "First, the drones engage in aerial mapping to create detailed three-dimensional terrain models. They then begin "precision planting" by shooting seed pods that have been "pregerminated and covered in a nutritious hydrogel" into the soil. Finally, drones monitor tree growth over the course of a number of "planting audits," designed to track the reforrestation progress. "
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How Google's New Search Preference for Mobile-Friendly Sites Will Affect Smal... - 0 views

magazine.good.is/...mobile-friendly-search-results

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shared by dr tech on 22 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 22 Apr 15
     
    "The National Small Business Administration found in 2013 that roughly 20 percent of small businesses are lacking a mobile-friendly website, and 18 percent have no web presence at all. Falling further down the search result hierarchy affects both the business itself and the costumers looking for the business."
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Google's 'mobilegeddon' will shake up search results | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...shake-up-mobile-search-results

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  • dr tech on 21 Apr 15
     
    "Having a site that is friendly to mobile browsers on smartphones and tablets will be key from Tuesday as Google rolls out a new mobile-focused algorithm. The update to the way Google ranks search results will take into account how mobile-friendly a website is. This means companies without a good mobile website will suffer, as searchers on mobile will see sites with good mobile experiences ranked higher than those with no mobile or poor mobile sites."
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Algorithm 'identifies future trolls from just five posts' | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...re-trolls-from-just-five-posts

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  • dr tech on 18 Apr 15
     
    "With all the information together, they created a prediction model which can guess with 80% accuracy whether or not that user will go on to be banned from just their first five posts. "
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Stolen data reaches five continents and 22 countries in 12 days on the Dark Web - 14 Ap... - 0 views

www.computing.co.uk/...ies-in-12-days-on-the-dark-web

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  • dr tech on 15 Apr 15
     
    "The files were then downloaded through the Bitglass proxy service, in which a unique watermark was applied to each copy, so that the company could track when the data was viewed and/or downloaded from that point forward. The firm used a basic "phishing" technique to entice criminals on the Dark Web. The data had been viewed over 200 times in just a few days, and in 12 days it had received more than 1,000 clicks, and had spread across the globe in 22 different countries, in five different continents."
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UK opposes international ban on developing 'killer robots' | Politics | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...an-on-developing-killer-robots

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  • dr tech on 14 Apr 15
     
    "The UK is opposing an international ban on so-called "killer robots" at a United Nations conference that is this week examining future developments of what are officially termed lethal autonomous weapons systems (Laws)."
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IBM unveils Watson Health Cloud to reduce healthcare costs - 0 views

mashable.com/...ibm-watson-health-cloud

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shared by dr tech on 14 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 14 Apr 15
     
    ""We believe a very large portion of healthcare spend is preventable," said John Kelly, IBM's SVP of solutions research, in an interview with Mashable. "Costs can improve dramatically through these technologies." Kelly is so confident in Watson Health Cloud that he thinks it can not only halt the growth of healthcare costs, but also reverse them."
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The dick pic test: are you happy to show the government yours? | James Ball | Comment i... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ment-privacy-surveillance-gchq

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shared by dr tech on 09 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 09 Apr 15
     
    "If you're doing nothing wrong, and have nothing to hide from your government, then mass surveillance holds no fears for you. This argument might be the oldest straw man in the privacy debate, but it's also a decent reflection of the state of the argument. In the UK's first major election since the Snowden revelations, privacy is a nonissue. This is a shame, because when it comes down to it, many of us who are doing nothing wrong have plenty we would prefer to hide."
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University admissions service broke data laws over targeted advertising | UK news | The... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ia-broke-data-laws-advertising

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shared by dr tech on 09 Apr 15 - Cached
  • dr tech on 09 Apr 15
     
    "The universities admissions service, Ucas, broke data protection rules when it signed up teenagers to receive adverts about mobile phones, energy drinks and other products, the information commissioner has ruled."
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Probing the whole Internet - in under an hour - for major security flaws - 0 views

mashable.com/...internet-weak-spots

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shared by dr tech on 31 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 31 Mar 15
     
    "Durumeric leads a team of researchers at the University of Michigan that has developed scanning software called ZMap. This tool can probe the whole public Internet in under an hour, revealing information about the roughly four billion devices online. The scan results can show which sites are vulnerable to particular security flaws. In the case of FREAK, a scan was used to measure the scale of the threat before the bug was publicly announced."
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India's $11 cellphone could change the world - Boing Boing - 0 views

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shared by dr tech on 26 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 26 Mar 15
     
    "The Micormax Joy phone is no iPhone. Selling at around $11, it is a candybar style device with color screen and keyboard wheel controls, and runs on the Android-based Cyanogen OS. "
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Brute-force iPhone password guesser can bypass Apple's 10-guess lockout - Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...-force-iphone-password-gu.html

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shared by dr tech on 20 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 20 Mar 15
     
    "The IP Box costs less than £200 and can guess all possible four-digit passwords in 111 hours. The device bypasses the secure wipe triggered by ten bad guesses by "aggressively cutting the power after each failed PIN attempt, but before the attempt has been synchronized to flash memory." "
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