news.slashdot.org - The UK's NHS will be banned from buying fax machines from next month -- and has been told by the government to phase out the machines entirely by 31 March 2020. From a report: More than 9,000 fax machines are in use by the NHS, a July survey found. All will be replaced by email, according to a re...
bleepingcomputer.com - Microsoft has confirmed that the upcoming Chromium-based Edge browser will also be able to run Chrome extensions. While this will greatly expand the functionality of the browser, it will also open it up to the increasing amount of malicious Chrome extensions that are seen on a daily basis.
developers.slashdot.org - Long time reader theodp writes: At Monday's kickoff event with Melinda Gates for Computer Science Education Week 2018, Microsoft President Brad Smith revealed how a 2013 driveway encounter led to Microsoft's decision to commit $25 million to Code.org, whose CEO Hadi Partovi happens to live next ...
news.slashdot.org - Netflix CEO Reed Hastings loves to identify sleep as the biggest competition of its service. "Sometimes employees at Netflix think, 'Oh my god, we're competing with FX, HBO, or Amazon, but think about it. If you didn't watch Netflix last night: What did you do? There's such a broad range of thing...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - It has been reported that researchers have created new artificial intelligence that could spell the end for one of the most widely used website security systems. The new algorithm, based on deep learning methods, is the most effective solver of captcha security and authentication systems to date ...
yro.slashdot.org - Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it's anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is. From a report: The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails -- each one following the path of an anonymous cellpho...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - It has been reported that Kubernetes vulnerability hits top of severity scale. The security issue strikes at some of the basic reasons for the rising popularity of containers as an architecture and Kubernetes as an orchestration mechanism.The vulnerability (CVE-2018-1002105) allows for privilege ...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - The media headlines were about the end of austerity and the digital sales tax on Google and Amazon. Yet from the viewpoint of a technology innovator it was the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s emphasis on investment in tech talent and cyber security that stood out in this year’s Budget. While an add...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - The DanaBot banking trojan is back, and has expanded beyond banking to compromise Web-based email servers. Will LaSala, Director ,Security Solutions and Security Evangelist at OneSpan: “Previously the DanaBot focused on mainly harvesting banking credentials by a similar means to the new threat, e...
northumberlandgazette.co.uk - People are being warned to be on their guard over phishing email scams. Northumberland County Council’s Trading Standards team has received a number of complaints about a hoax email that appears to be a reminder to residents to pay their TV licence fee. A link within the email leads to a con...
news.slashdot.org - Global carbon emissions will jump to a record high in 2018, according to a report, dashing hopes a plateau of recent years would be maintained. It means emissions are heading in the opposite direction to the deep cuts urgently needed, say scientists, to fight climate change. From a report: The ri...
slashdot.org - In a developer blog post published this week, Alexa AI director of applied science Ruhi Sarikaya detailed the advances in machine learning technologies that have allowed Alexa to better understand users through contextual clues. From a report: According to Sarikaya, these improvements have played...
tech.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader shares a report: An all-electric mini-airliner that can go 621 miles on one charge and replace many of the turboprops and light jets in use now -- flying almost as far and almost as fast but for a fraction of the running costs -- could be in service within three years. But thi...
zdnet.com - Google has recently removed 22 Android apps from the Play Store. The apps were removed for abusing Android devices to load and click on ads behind the users' backs. The Google Play Store has been plagued by an adware epidemic these past few months, as ZDNet detailed in a previous article. What ...
slashdot.org - There are some 8 million abandoned homes -- or akiya -- in Japanese suburbia, according to The Japan Times . And if you've got a visa allowing you to live in Japan, some of them can be yours for free or very low prices, and the government may give you a subsidy to renovate one. From a report: Th...
