Economy

August 30, 2022
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France reveals hidden swimming pools with AI, taxes them

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Using an artificial intelligence computer vision system developed by French IT firm Capgemini, the French tax…
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August 29, 2022
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FTC sues data broker that tracks locations of 125M phones per month

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued a data broker for allegedly selling location data culled…
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August 26, 2022
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The number of companies caught up in the Twilio hack keeps growing

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The fallout from this month’s breach of security provider Twilio keeps coming. Three new companies—authentication service…
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August 25, 2022
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Phishers who hit Twilio and Cloudflare stole 10k credentials from 136 others

Enlarge / This is definitely not a Razer mouse—but you get the idea. (credit: calvio via Getty Images) Two weeks…
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August 24, 2022
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Plex imposes password reset after hackers steal data for >15 million users

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Streaming media platform Plex on Wednesday said it was hacked by intruders who managed to access…
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August 23, 2022
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Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code

Enlarge / Brian Kernighan speaking at a tribute to his Bell Labs coworker and The C Programming Language co-author Dennis…
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August 19, 2022
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Debit card fraud leaves Ally Bank customers, small stores reeling

Enlarge / Ally debit card owners are reporting fraudulent charges at a steady cadence over the past week. (credit: Getty…
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August 18, 2022
148

Zoom patches critical vulnerability again after prior fix was bypassed

Enlarge / A critical vulnerability in Zoom for MacOS, patched once last weekend, could still be bypassed as of Wednesday.…
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August 18, 2022
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Netflix’s ad-supported plan likely to have another drawback: No video downloads

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) The presence of advertisements apparently won’t be the only major difference between Netflix’s ad-supported…
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August 18, 2022
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Ring patched an Android bug that could have exposed video footage

Enlarge / Ring camera images give you a view of what’s happening and, in one security firm’s experiments, a good…
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