All too often, Governments use this to cut population off communication ahead of measures against civilians. Stay safe, Iraq people.
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Facebook News Tab Aims to ‘Strengthen Democracy’
“What could go wrong?” is exactly the right question one would ask over the feature Facebook announced. Facebook has been facing criticism not only recently over enabling filter bubbles and fueling extremist echo chambers. “Strengthen Democracy” is a clear attempt to whitewash from accusations to actually hurt the same. Digital Trends has more details.
Facebook News Tab Facebook is launching a dedicated news tab amid growing criticism for the social network. Facebook News uses articles from a list of publishers meeting a set of standards and includes a section curated by journalists. But is that enough for a platform criticized for fake news?
Source: Digital Trends
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Teaching Rats To Drive Tiny Cars
Rats can relax better while driving tiny cars, Scientists Discover. It’d make a good tag line for a few car manufacturers.
Rats driving tiny cars. A bunch of rats have learned how to drive tiny vehicles around to pick up food.
Source: Hacker News.
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AWS hit by major DDoS attack
DDoS is an annoyance not even the biggest Cloud is safe from. Apparently AWS’s Route 53 was affected and failed to resolve multiple DNS names over several hours.
Distributed of Denial Service Parts of AWS were taken offline for hours
Source: TechRadar. The newspage also has a reference of 2019’s best DDoS Protection.
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Former SAP CEO Bill McDermott now ServiceNow CEO
That was quick.
Bill McDermott When Bill McDermott announced he was stepping down as CEO at SAP a couple of weeks ago, it certainly felt like a curious move — but he landed on his feet pretty quickly. ServiceNow announced he would be taking over as CEO there. The transition will take place at year-end.
Source: TechCrunch
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Gmail Free Storage Thing of Past
Nobody could see THAT coming!
Gmail When people hit those caps, they realize they have little choice but to start paying, or risk losing access to emails, photos and personal documents.
Source: Bloomberg
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Alexa and Google spy on you
Only after the Google SVP let the public know ‘He’d let guests know about smart speakers‘, there is more bad news on these smart home devices. Researchers found approved apps that deliberately turn these devices to spy on their owner.
Alexa and Google Home evasedrop Amazon- and Google-approved apps turned both voice-controlled devices into “smart spies.”
Source: Alexa and Google Home abused to eavesdrop and phish passwords
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Mark Hurd passed away
Mark Hurd was a giant in the industry. My thoughts are with his family, friends and everyone at Oracle. His passing away marks a very sad day for the entire industry.
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Floppy Disks coordinate missile launches.
Good News: US military will no longer use floppy disks to coordinate nuke launches. You’ll probably think this technology is around for many years, since the 70ies or even longer. The article confirms these 8-inch floppy disks have been in use since the 1970ies. You’ll probably also expect this is proven and well tested, and any approach to replace this is well considered.
Well, then the article has bad news for you.
Now, the US strategic command has announced that it has replaced the drives with a “highly-secure solid state digital storage solution,” Lt. Col. Jason Rossi told c4isrnet.com.