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Some of the biggest Call of Duty, Overwatch and Hearthstone esport leagues will be streamed exclusively on YouTube. The deal's seen as a big win for the platform which has found it hard to compete with game streamer, Twitch. It's part of…

Security researchers have criticised Facebook's head of communications, Sir Nick Clegg, for his response to the hacking of Amazon chief Jeff Bezos. Mr Bezos' phone was hacked in May 2018 after he received a WhatsApp message loaded with…

Apple says being forced to abandon the Lightning connector used on its iPhones would create an "unprecedented amount of electronic waste". While the latest Android phones have a USB-C port, Apple's iPhones still use the proprietary…

"We agree to give these companies ownership of our lives and they are cashing in," says Edward Armstrong, a freelance copywriter and consultant originally from Newcastle, UK, but now based in London. He has abandoned using the services of…

Content moderators are being asked to sign forms stating they understand the job could cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to reports. The Financial Times and The Verge reported moderators for Facebook and YouTube, hired…

I don't have anything to hide, but I don't have anything to show you either. Huge thanks to AlternativeTo. Without them and their users, this project would be significantly more difficult, if not impossible. Before reading this guide, I…

On January 24, 1984, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh at Apple's annual shareholder's meeting in Cupertino, California, debuting the new computer equipped with a 9-inch black and white display, an 8MHz Motorola…

Nearly two years on from the revelation of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, you’d hope that Facebook has taken steps to stop bad actors from exploiting data that we share online. While Facebook has taken some of these steps,…

01 Sep How to Determine When You Are Under Physical Surveillance Predator: Jim. P., Special Forces Operations Operative Discussion: Are you setting yourself up for an attack? Bad guys watch your every move to identify the times you…

When leading technical teams, one of the most important things we need to take care is to grow the team skills by introducing knowledge, patterns, techniques, that are relevant for the team, the product and that the people are ready to…

CHICO — Enloe Medical Center in Chico was attacked in a ransomware incident Thursday evening, according to a press release from the hospital. A ransomware attack is a type of computer virus, also known as malware, that threatens to publish…

The official Twitter account of the UK Government in Wales has been used to post pornography. The graphic video clip was shared in the early afternoon. An official told the BBC that the matter was quickly detected and the explicit imagery…

Jun Yu can't resist gadgets. More than 20 smartphones, old tablets and other devices lurk in a corner of his Beijing home - an ever-growing tech junkyard. His apartment also boasts a Google Home smart assistant and an Amazon Echo. "I…

Individuals who aren’t able to bike to work or who use plastic water bottles aren’t the population that’s primarily responsible for global warming—Exxon, Shell, and their peer companies are, along with the lobbyists who press their…

(This is the text of a keynote talk I just delivered at the IT Futures conference held by the University of Edinburgh Informatics centre today.) Good morning. I'm Charlie Stross, and I tell lies for money. That is, I write…

I’m approaching my ten year anniversary on Stack Overflow. Over the past decade, how I use the site and my understanding of it has evolved quite a bit, so I thought I’d share some of what I’ve learned along the way. I’m writing this as a…

Actor Samuel L. Jackson gestures as he attends the 'Django Unchained' premiere in New York December 11, 2012. You can now hear the voice of Samuel L. Jackson respond to some of your questions when you talk to Amazon's Alexa voice…

Source: xkcd Unix is beautiful. Allow me to paint some happy little trees for you. I’m not going to explain a bunch of commands – that’s boring, and there’s a million tutorials on the web doing that already. I’m going to leave you with…

Media playback is unsupported on your device The inventor of the World Wide Web has accused the Conservatives of spreading misinformation during the general election campaign. Sir Tim Berners-Lee described the renaming of…

In 2018, a Kenyan politician lost KSh 1,9 million while he was on an official tour out of the country after his SIM card was swapped and used to change his e-banking credentials. Following that, money was siphoned out of his bank account.…

Challenging projects every programmer should try I talk to a lot of students and professional developers that often want to start a side project, but aren't sure what to build. Below is a handful of software projects that taught me a…

It's never good when a giant of the technology business describes your product as "a fool's errand". But that's how Tesla's chief executive Elon Musk branded the laser scanning system Lidar, which is being touted as the best way for…

There’s a thing that I’ve been puzzled about for a while. There’s an entire sector of industry that, as far as I can tell, does not exist and should. For want of a better term I’m going to call the thing that sector would do social…

When Apple introduced powerful anti-tracking protections to Safari in 2017, advertisers banded together to say they were “deeply concerned” it would sabotage ad-supported content. Now, there’s new information showing that Safari users had…

Open Source Silicon We all know that open source software has changed the fundamental nature of the software industry and that Google generously adds fuel to this culture of openness and community through Google Summer of Code. What few…

Best books and courses about machine learning to start with This post is the answer to both questions. For now let’s assume that you’ve already read a few popular resources and seen a couple of YouTube tutorials. Here’s what you need…

Your data model has started to stabilize and you're in a position to create a public API for your web app. You realize it's hard to make significant changes to your API once it's released and want to get as much right as possible up front.…

Researchers from Google's Information Security Engineering team have detailed several security issues in the design of Apple's Safari anti-tracking system, Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP). ITP is designed to restrict cookies and is…

At the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference this week in Vancouver, Canada, machine learning took center stage as 13,000 researchers explored things like neuroscience, how to interpret neural network outputs, and how…

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) said it will remove deepfakes and other manipulated videos from its platform if they have been edited, but not content that is parody or satire, in a move aimed at curbing misinformation ahead of the U.S.…