China’s Cyber Superpower Strategy: Implementation, Internet Freedom Implications, and U.S. Responses
Written Testimony by Sarah CookSenior Research Analyst for East Asia and China Media Bulletin Director House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on Information Technology Countering China: Ensuring America Remains the World Leader in Advanced...
New Iot Botnet Torii Uses Six Methods for Persistence, Has No Clear Purpose
Security researchers discovered a new IoT botnet that is in a league superior to the Mirai variants that rise and fall on a daily basis. The developers of the botnet seek wide coverage and for this purpose they created binaries for multiple CPU architectures,...
MissingLink.ai simplifies AI data management and experimentation
The amount of data generated each day boggles the mind. IDC forecasts the total will grow to 5.2 zettabytes in 2025, and it’s accelerating exponentially — 90 percent of the world’s data was generated in the past two years alone. (For point of reference, a zettabyte is...
In A New Email, Elon Musk Accused A Cave Rescuer Of Being A “Child Rapist” And Said He “Hopes” There's A Lawsuit
In an email to BuzzFeed News, Tesla CEO Elon Musk accused a Thai cave rescuer of moving to Thailand to take a child bride. The rescuer denied all the claims. Posted on September 4, 2018, at 5:04 p.m. ET Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters British caver Vernon Unsworth at the Tham...
Facebook announces pilot to monitor hacking threats against U.S. political candidates and staff
As the U.S. midterm elections draw closer, Facebook announced today that it is rolling out a pilot program that U.S. political campaigns can enroll in to get additional security protections for their Pages and accounts. In a blog post announcing the pilot, Facebook’s...
Microsoft updates its planet-scale Cosmos DB database service
Cosmos DB is undoubtedly one of the most interesting products in Microsoft’s Azure portfolio. It’s a fully managed, globally distributed multi-model database that offers throughput guarantees, a number of different consistency models and high read and write...
Facebook discloses network breach affecting 50 million user accounts
Facebook on Friday disclosed a breach of its network that affected almost 50 million user accounts. The social networking giant said that attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook's code that let them steal access tokens -- digital keys that are used to keep...
Home-selling startup Opendoor raises $400 million from SoftBank
Home-selling startup Opendoor today announced that it has raised $400 million from SoftBank’s Vision Fund, just over three months after raising a $325 million Series E round. Founder and CEO Eric Wu told VentureBeat in a phone interview that discussions about SoftBank...
Intel admits 'tight' supply for cheap PC chips, focuses on high-end
An Open Letter from Bob Swan, Intel CFO and Interim CEOTo our customers and partners,The first half of this year showed remarkable growth for our industry. I want to take a moment to recap where we've been, offer our sincere thanks and acknowledge the work underway to...
Best Buy accidentally sells customer the new, unannounced Chromecast
Google has its annual fall hardware event planned for October 9th, which is when we’ll see the official announcement of the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL on top of the usual slate of Google-made hardware upgrades. One of those upgrades, to the company’s Chromecast line,...
