Economy

August 1, 2022
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No code, no problem—we try to beat an AI at its own game with new tools

Enlarge / Is our machine learning yet? Over the past year, machine learning and artificial intelligence technology have made significant…
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July 29, 2022
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How Tor is fighting—and beating—Russian censorship

Enlarge (credit: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/Getty) For years, the anonymity service Tor has been the best way to stay private online…
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July 28, 2022
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Comcast stock falls as company fails to add Internet users for first time ever

Enlarge / Comcast CEO Brian Roberts at an event in Beijing on October 17, 2019. Comcast is the largest Internet…
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July 27, 2022
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0-days sold by Austrian firm used to hack Windows users, Microsoft says

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft said on Wednesday that an Austria-based company named DSIRF used multiple Windows and Adobe Reader…
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July 27, 2022
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Newly found Lightning Framework offers a plethora of Linux hacking capabilities

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The software framework has become essential to developing almost all complex software these days. The Django…
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July 26, 2022
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How big is the risk that someone will hack an EV charging network?

Enlarge / There are many good reasons why an EV charger should be networked, but it does come with vulnerabilities.…
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July 26, 2022
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Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have unpacked a major cybersecurity find—a malicious UEFI-based rootkit used in the wild since 2016 to…
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July 26, 2022
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Russia is quietly ramping up its Internet censorship machine

Enlarge (credit: Kremlin official photo) Since 2019, Vladimir Putin has supercharged his plan to separate Russia from the global Internet.…
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July 25, 2022
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Global shortage of fiber optic cable threatens digital growth

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A worldwide shortage of fiber optic cable has driven up prices and lengthened lead times, endangering…
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July 22, 2022
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Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) What’s worse than a widely used Internet-connected enterprise app with a hardcoded password? Try said enterprise…
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