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College Board, the nonprofit that develops and administers SAT and Advanced Placement exams, is being accused of selling more than five million students’ personal information, according to a lawsuit filed in Chicago last week. The…

Since 2017, Cockroach Labs has run thousands of benchmark tests across dozens of machine types with the goal of better understanding performance across cloud providers. If there’s one thing we’ve learned in our…

Instagram is to warn users when their captions on a photo or video could be considered offensive. The Facebook-owned company says it has trained an AI system to detect offensive captions. The idea is to give users "a chance to pause and…

Living in the digital era modern software and web have become pretty demanding when it comes to user experience. You can’t just build an application, throw it into the wild and expect good results, without putting an effort to make…

Game of Thrones, Caitlyn Jenner, the Rugby World Cup, what is Area 51, how to eat a pineapple and what is a dead ting? These are some of the top phrases and questions you searched for on Google in 2019. The Rugby World Cup - which South…

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine's person of the year for showing "what it might look like when a new generation leads." She's seen here at the COP25 Climate Conference in Madrid on Wednesday. Pablo Blazquez…

A leading research centre has called for new laws to restrict the use of emotion-detecting tech. The AI Now Institute says the field is "built on markedly shaky foundations". Despite this, systems are on sale to help vet job seekers, test…

Ondrej Vlcek, chief executive officer of Avast, has defended his company's sales of aggregated user data, though one critic has accused it of creating “spyware.” Avast, the multibillion-dollar Czech security company, doesn’t just make…

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Cases of burnout have been increasing at an alarming rate in recent years among millennials and Gen Zers. It's a growing problem in today's workplace because of trends like rising workloads, limited staff and resources and long hours.…

Hidden in the source code of the page are several interesting trackers and other curious bits of code, calls to other locations, etc that one usually only sees in the most egregious of data-harvesters. Some of the code includes inputs for…

I never thought I’d take interior-design inspiration from an office space, but as of late, I’ve found myself spending a number of off-duty hours googling mustard-yellow armchairs and color-coded bookshelves to mimic the chic co-working…

The Chinese authorities issued a directive in August last year requiring real name registration for live webcasts. Recently, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced a series of regulations including a ban on live web broadcasts and…

Since the Russian military agency known as the GRU first entered the spotlight as the hackers that targeted the 2016 US election, it's become increasingly known as the actor behind much of the Kremlin’s most brazen digital behavior. It's…

Duped Researchers at the AI firm Kneron were able to easily fool facial recognition systems at a variety of high security locations — including banks, border crossing checkpoints, and airports — using a high quality mask, Fortune reports.…

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Video showing a hacker talking to a young girl in her bedroom via her family's Ring camera has been shared on social media amid warnings people need to secure the devices better. The hacker tells the young girl: "It's Santa. It's your best…

A social-media influencer has been sentenced to 14 years in prison over a plot to obtain a domain name at gunpoint. Rossi Lorathio Adams II, 27, built up more than a million followers by posting videos of partying Iowa State University…

AT&T 5G Now Live for Consumers in 10 Markets Consumers and Businesses in Birmingham, Ala., Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Providence, R.I., Rochester, N.Y., San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose, Calif. among first…

U.S. software development forum GitHub is mulling plans to build a presence in China, a move that would allow Chinese developers to retain access to technologies the website hosts in face of escalating American export restrictions. The…

Your email inbox is under daily active assault from every business out to make money off of your identity. Some large email providers popularized methods to reclaim agency over your own inbox with clever tricks like appending +companyname…

Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox is officially called Xbox Series X. Microsoft revealed the name and console design on stage at the Game Awards today. The console itself looks far more like a PC than we’ve seen from previous Xbox consoles,…

AMERICAN MOBILE-PHONE users are inundated with spam callers. Hiya, a Seattle-based call-monitoring service, estimates that consumers received 26.3bn robocalls in 2018, up 46% from 18bn the previous year. Phone manufacturers have taken note…

A look at recent usage trends, and how the company is trying to stay relevant for the next generation of consumers The writing is on the wall for Facebook — the platform is losing market share, fast, among young users. Edison Research’s…

Google has cranked up the annoyance factor on YouTube lately. Frequent pop-overs and ads promoting YouTube Premium. The service has become all the more annoying for it. YouTube Premium is a bundled subscription service priced roughly the…

A radical overhaul of Australia’s analogue era censorship and classification laws alongside reforms to the Privacy Act to “capture technical data and other online identifiers” under the umbrella of “personal information” have emerged as…

Delving into the world of open source license comparison is not for the faint of heart. Copy-left this, permissive that, and what, in the name of GNU, is the difference between GPL 2 and GPL 3 With over 80 OSI-approved open source licenses…

Elpass uses the most cutting-edge encryption algorithms. Here is a simplified summarization: First. The master password is hashed with Argon2id algorithm. This requires 256 MiB of dedicated RAM, and takes about 1.0 seconds on iPhone 11…

The data behind a country’s Google searches can reveal a lot about its people and current interests and concerns, and thanks to the release of the search giant's annual wrap-up of this year’s trends , we now know what Australians were most…

Mobile network provider Telefonica Deutschland picked Finland's Nokia and China's Huawei to build its 5G network in Germany, the company announced Wednesday. Huawei is a global leader in constructing equipment and infrastructure for…