Hollywood is all about fake. That is what movies are – fake depictions of a fake reality that only exist in the mind of scriptwriters, directors and a usually gullible audience. (Disclosure: I do like some movies.) Hollywood has never been shy of plagiarizing. Every idea, tale of cinematographic trick that made a splash somewhere […]
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Major CloudFlare Bug Leaked Sensitive Data from Customers’ Sites…
Cloudflare revealed a serious bug in its software today that caused sensitive data like passwords, cookies, authentication tokens to spill in plaintext from its customers’ websites. The announcement is a major blow for the content delivery network, which offers enhanced security and performance for more than 5 million websites. This could have allowed anyone who […]
Not Russian Hackers as Alleged: Brit Arrested for Cyberattack on Germany…
A UK national has been detained in London on suspicion of carrying out a cyber-attack last year that left 1 million Deutsche Telekom customers without service. At the time, German Chancellor Angela Merkel hinted that Russia might be behind the attack. The 29-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday at Luton airport in southern England by […]
Marathon Runner’s Tracked Data Exposes Phony Time…
Hot tip: If you’re going to cheat while running a marathon, don’t wear a fitness tracking band. A New York food writer found this out the hard way on Tuesday after she was busted for an elaborate run-faking scheme, in which she attempted to use doctored data to back up an illegitimate finish time. In […]
‘Exoplanet Hop’: NASA Releases Epic Travel Poster to Mark Landmark Discovery (PHOTOS)…
NASA has released a stunning new ‘space tourism poster’ to mark the momentous discovery of seven exoplanets around the star TRAPPIST-1, sitting some 39 light-years from Earth. The space agency announced the discovery of the exoplanets – planets circling stars outside our solar system – at a press conference in Washington, DC on Wednesday. It […]
NASA’s Longshot Bet on a Revolutionary Rocket May Be about to Pay Off…
Franklin Chang-Díaz bounds up a handful of stairs and peers through a porthole cut into the side of a silver, tanker-truck-sized vacuum chamber. Inside, a blueish-purple light shines, unchanging and constant, like a bright flashlight. “It looks kind of boring,” Chang-Díaz admits. “But that plume is 3.5 million degrees. If you stuck your hand in […]
Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture…
When new employees join Uber, they are asked to subscribe to 14 core company values, including making bold bets, being “obsessed” with the customer, and “always be hustlin’.” The ride-hailing service particularly emphasizes “meritocracy,” the idea that the best and brightest will rise to the top based on their efforts, even if it means stepping […]
Artificial Intelligence to Write Its Own Code by Stealing from Other Programs…
OUT of the way, human, I’ve got this covered. A machine learning system has gained the ability to write its own code. Created by researchers at Microsoft and the University of Cambridge, the system, called DeepCoder, solved basic challenges of the kind set by programming competitions. This kind of approach could make it much easier […]
Privacy Group Notches Win over FBI in FOIA Fight…
A privacy protection group scored a pair of legal wins Tuesday in a court battle with the FBI over access to studies the law enforcement agency has done of how its own record-keeping systems could impact personal privacy. The Electronic Privacy Information Center sued the law enforcement agency under the Freedom of Information Act in […]
Obama’s Feds Tried to Hack Indiana’s Election System While Pence Was Governor…
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials tried to hack Indiana’s state electoral system with at least 14,800 “scans” or hits between Nov. 1, 2016, to Dec. 16, 2016, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned. The attacks are the second confirmed IT scanning assault by DHS officials against states that resisted then-President Barack […]
UPS Tries Arming Its Brown-Clad Drivers With an Octocopter Drone…
The world’s largest courier took a step closer to that future on Monday, launching an unmanned aerial vehicle from the roof of a UPS truck about a quarter-mile to a blueberry farm outside Tampa, Florida. The drone dropped off a package at a home on the property, and returned to the truck, which had moved […]
SpaceX Launches 1st Private Rocket from Historic NASA Pad — Then Sticks a Landing…
SpaceX has launched the first private rocket from the same historic site that saw some of NASA’s greatest space missions, then landed a booster nearby in a resounding success. The California-based company’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station today (Feb. 19) at 9:39 a.m. EST (1439 GMT) […]
Robots Poised to Take over Wide Range of Military Jobs…
The wave of automation that swept away tens of thousands of American manufacturing and office jobs during the past two decades is now washing over the armed forces, putting both rear-echelon and front-line positions in jeopardy. “Just as in the civilian economy, automation will likely have a big impact on military organizations in logistics and […]
BMW Unveils a Futuristic Concept Hover Vehicle Based on Lego…
BMW has joined forces with Lego to create a futuristic flying motorbike concept, called the Hover Ride. Based on the Lego Technic BMW R 1200 GS Adventure kit, designers used the same 603 parts to create a flying motorbike Lego model. And BMW was so taken with the Lego version, that it decided to create […]
Finally, Someone Has a Realistic Timeline for Mars Colonization–the UAE…
NASA says it intends to send humans to Mars in the 2030s, but the space agency does not have a realistic budget to do so. SpaceX’s Elon Musk says he will send the first human colonists to Mars in the 2020s, but his company also lacks the funding to implement its bold plans without a […]
REPORT: Leaky John Brennan by George Neumayr…
Out of hatred for McGovernite liberals, a Republican president in the 1970s broke the law. Now those aging radicals break the law out of hatred for a Republican president. Nested within intelligence agencies, they have fed a series of criminal leaks to a press corps that functions like an anti-Trump dirty tricks operation. Donald Trump […]
Phony Baloney: The 9 Fakest Fake-News Checkers
Sex blogger, gamer, Trump-haters among self-appointed experts in determining truth – Since President Donald Trump won the presidential election in November, there’s been an explosion of “fake-news” checker sites, some cloaked behind a veil of anonymity. In some cases, Americans really have fallen for “fake news.” Just days ago, 20th Century Fox apologized for creating […]
Former Obama Campaign Manager Fined $90,000 for Unethical Lobbying for Uber…
David Plouffe, Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, was fined $90,000 by the Chicago Board of Ethics in a 5-0 vote for improperly lobbying Mayor Rahm Emanuel on behalf of Uber Technologies. The San Francisco resident was fined $1,000 a day for the 90 days he used personal email accounts without being a registered lobbyist to […]
AI-Powered Body Cams Give Cops the Power to Google Everything They See…
The police body camera industry is the latest to jump on the artificial intelligence bandwagon, bringing new powers and privacy concerns to a controversial technology bolstered by the need to hold police accountable after numerous high-profile killings of unarmed black citizens. Now, that tech is about to get smarter. Last week, Taser, the stun gun […]
Now Half of Families Text Each Other in Same House…
Some will find it depressing. Others will recognise an all-too familiar snapshot of tech-obsessed modern life. But nearly half of families with children now text each other when they are in the same house. Just under a third of us (32 per cent) are guilty of tapping out messages on mobiles when we want to […]
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