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■AT&T has officially launched AT&T TV, a streaming alternative to its DirecTV and U-verse services, in select U.S. markets. The service is now available in parts of five states: Orange County and Riverside, California; Corpus Christi, El Paso and Odessa, Texas; West Palm Beach, Florida; Topeka and Wichita, Kansas; and St. Louis and Springfield, Missouri.AT&T TV will be able to work with both an app and a dedicated streaming box. The app will be the same AT&T TV app that ... |
8/20/2019 3:59:30 AM |
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■Researchers have discovered a major new security flaw in Bluetooth, which could leave millions of devices at risk of a malicious hack. The Bluetooth SIG, an organization that oversees the technology "s standards, has issued a security notice for what the researchers are calling Key Negotiation of Bluetooth or KNOB attack. "The KNOB attack can be conducted remotely or by maliciously modifying few bytes in one of the victim "s Bluetooth firmware. Being a standard-compliant attack it is expected to ... |
8/17/2019 3:56:49 AM |
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■Microsoft amended its privacy policy and other pages to make it clear human workers are listening to recorded conversations and commands to improve the services. "We realized, based on questions raised recently, that we could do a better job specifying that humans sometimes review this content, " a Microsoft spokesperson told Motherboard, which spotted the policy tweaks.Tech companies in the United States have been facing broad criticism from lawmakers and regulators over their privacy ... |
8/16/2019 4:26:39 AM |
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■Amazon has announced that its facial recognition system can now detect "fear " by reading a person "s face. Rekognition is one of many Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services available for developers. It can be used for facial analysis or sentiment analysis, which identifies different expressions and predicts emotions from images of people "s faces. The service uses artificial intelligence to "learn " from the reams of data it processes.Civil rights groups called on ... |
8/15/2019 4:09:37 AM |
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■The FCC has recently approved $121 million in funding to boost the rollout of rural broadband connectivity. This funding should bring serviceable internet speeds to roughly 36,579 homes and business across 16 US states. The providers will begin receiving funding later this month. "As we continue to authorize funds to expand broadband in rural America, I am excited to see the benefits for rural residents who live all across the country, from Tribal lands in Wyoming to mountain communities in ... |
8/14/2019 4:33:07 AM |
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■Huawei has launched its own operating system the HongmengOS, known in English as the HarmonyOS. The company says the operating system, a microkernel-based distributed OS, can be used in everything from smartphones to smart speakers, wearables, and in-vehicle systems to create a shared ecosystem across devices. The operating system will be released as an open-source platform worldwide to encourage adoption.In addition to being a lightweight system, Huawei says HarmonyOS will offer some performance boosts. ... |
8/13/2019 4:33:45 AM |
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■Broadcom Inc. said it agreed to buy Symantec Corp. "s division that serves business customers for $10.7 billion in cash, adding software designed to keep hackers out of corporate systems.The deal, which is expected to close in Broadcom "s fiscal first quarter ending in January, comes less than a month after the two companies " discussions for a full merger fell apart over disagreements about the price. The deal effectively splits Symantec in two, with Broadcom taking ownership of its entire enterprise ... |
8/10/2019 4:33:21 AM |
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■During a briefing at the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on August 7, researchers from Israeli security company Check Point revealed how Facebook-owned WhatsApp could be hacked to change the text of a message and the identity of the sender. These vulnerabilities were initially announced last year but WhatsApp has failed to resolve the issues, which remains today.The flaws could have significant consequences because WhatsApp has about 1.5 billion users, and is used for personal ... |
8/9/2019 5:39:05 AM |
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■The Trump administration on Wednesday released a rule that restricts government agencies from doing business with Huawei, the giant Chinese maker of telecommunications equipment and smartphones. The interim rule will preclude any US federal agency from purchasing telecom or technology equipment from the firms "as a substantial or essential component of any system, or as critical technology as part of any system, " starting August 13.The ban is part of a broad U.S. push against Huawei ... |
8/8/2019 5:12:57 AM |
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■Five months after it was announced, Apple "s first credit card is now available but not to everyone. The customers who got access on Tuesday morning were among those who applied to be "notified " when the card first became available. The credit card will be released to the wider public later in August. At that time, all customers will be able to apply for the card in their iPhone wallet app.The sleek number-less titanium card that integrates with Apple Pay, the company "s digital ... |
8/7/2019 5:00:16 AM |
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■Russian state-sponsored hackers may be trying to spy on companies by hacking into vulnerable office IoT devices connected to their corporate network, according to Microsoft.The group, known as STRONTIUM, has been active since at least 2007. They are credited with a long list of infamous work including breaking into the Democratic National Committee in 2016, the crippling NotPetya attacks against Ukraine in 2017, and targeting political groups in Europe and North America throughout 2018. "In April, ... |
8/6/2019 5:54:51 AM |
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■Verizon has updated its lineup of unlimited plans with a new set that will let you, your spouse and your kids potentially each choose your own plan. Each family member may have to do a little bit of work to sort through the details and determine just which plan might make the most sense for them.Whereas before Verizon had three different unlimited plans to choose from, there are now four (along with a "Just Kids " plan you can tack on to any unlimited plan). What you get ultimately ... |
8/3/2019 5:00:47 AM |
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■Cisco has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a client alleging the networking giant knowingly sold video surveillance kit containing serious security vulnerabilities. Although Cisco eventually fixed the software flaws, the lawsuit alleged that the firm potentially exposed the federal and state-level agencies that used the equipment.The settlement stems from a Video Surveillance Manager package Cisco sold, starting more than a decade ago, to a raft of government agencies. These agencies ... |
8/2/2019 4:23:50 AM |
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■Facebook may release a TV streaming device this fall, The Information reported Wednesday. The device will combine a camera for video chat with streaming apps from major media companies, according to the report.The new device, code-named Catalina, will also come with a physical remote and streaming video services similar to other television boxes like Apple TV. Facebook has talked to media companies including Netflix, Disney, Hulu, Amazon and HBO about including their apps on the device. The company has ... |
8/1/2019 5:17:46 AM |
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■In one of the biggest data breaches ever, a hacker gained access to more than 100 million Capital One customers " accounts and credit card applications earlier this year. The bank announced the hack the same day the FBI arrested a suspect, Paige A. Thompson, who worked for Amazon Web Services years before the digital theft took place.The breach compromised names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, dates of birth, and self-reported incomes. Capital One "s press release also claims that 140,000 US Social ... |
7/31/2019 4:23:25 AM |
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■Earlier this year, it was revealed that Alexa and then Google Assistant secretly spy on users. Now it turns out Apple "s voice assistant Siri also has humans listening to customers " queries. An Apple contractor shared Siri "s quality-control practices with The Guardian last week. As with Google and Amazon, Apple utilizes human contractors who listen to a small number of user recordings captured by a personal assistant Siri, in this case. The contractors then grade how Siri responded, identifying when ... |
7/30/2019 4:43:33 AM |
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■The United States Justice Department has approved the $26 billion merger deal between T-Mobile and Sprint. After over a year in regulatory limbo, the merger received the green light from the last federal agency to hold out, with the Federal Communications Commission already signaling that it will approve the deal.The companies also announced agreements with Dish Network Corporation in which the combined T-Mobile and Sprint, as the proposed New T-Mobile, will divest Sprint "s prepaid businesses and Sprint ... |
7/27/2019 4:46:06 AM |
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■The US Department of Justice took the unusual step of announcing an antitrust investigation against America "s biggest tech firms. It "s the first clear public confirmation of a major U.S. antitrust review of the tech industry. The examination promises to be the broadest and potentially toughest scrutiny of companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon.The DOJ said its antitrust division will collect information from the public, other companies and industry participants to examine "whether ... |
7/26/2019 5:16:58 AM |
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■A "technical error " in the Messenger Kids app allowed a child to enter a group chat with friends-of-friends who hadn "t been approved by their parents. The entire purpose of the app, which was launched in 2017 as a safe alternative to Facebook Messenger, was for parents to control who their children talk to. The issue appears to have arisen as a result of how Messenger Kids " permissions are applied in group chat scenarios where the multi-user chats apparently override the system of ... |
7/25/2019 5:21:49 AM |
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■Apple is reportedly in advanced talks to buy assets from Intel "s modem chip business. The deal, valued at $1 billion or more, could be reached in the next week.This deal could potentially bring Apple hundreds of engineers and key patents from Intel that would likely allow them to build out some of the technologies they are currently licensing from Qualcomm for their cell network-connected mobile devices.For those who are wondering why Intel is looking to offload their modem business, this came on the ... |
7/24/2019 5:10:49 AM |
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