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News & Articles By Arsenio Toledo
06/08/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
McDonald’s to test run AI-powered drive-thru windows that don’t need employees to take orders
In another move designed to shrink its workforce and save on labor expenses, McDonald’s is testing out its artificial intelligence-driven drive-thrus at 10 locations in Chicago. In these locations, workers will no longer be taking down the drive-thru orders of customers. A computer will do it instead, according to McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski. On Wednesday, June […]
06/05/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Amazon is about to start sharing Alexa owners’ bandwidth with their neighbors
The tens of millions of Americans that own Amazon smart devices like Alexa, Echo and Ring only have a few days left to opt out of a company experiment that will severely compromise their personal privacy and security. On June 8, Amazon will launch the Amazon Sidewalk, a new shared mesh network that will help its […]
05/16/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Anthropologists warn that people have become so attached to smartphones that the devices are “becoming our homes”
A group of anthropologists from the U.K.’s University College London (UCL) came to the conclusion that humans have become so dependent on smartphones as part of everyday life that these mobile devices are “becoming our homes.” This is the conclusion the UCL anthropologists reached as part of a study that spent more than a year documenting smartphone use in nine countries around the […]
04/27/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Big tech supporting and writing privacy legislation in multiple states to preempt passage of stronger privacy laws
Big tech corporations are pushing states to pass watered-down privacy laws that they helped write with the goal of preempting stronger privacy protections. In March, Virginia swiftly passed the Consumer Data Protection Act. According to an investigation by Protocol, the Virginia law was “industry-approved.” The law was presented to a Democratic state senator by an Amazon lobbyist. Most of […]
04/01/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Chinese surveillance firms helping CCP draft “standards” to allow surveillance systems to track ethnic minorities
The Chinese Communist Party has been enlisting the help of surveillance corporations to create standards for mass facial recognition systems. These systems allow the government in Beijing to track certain characteristics, such as ethnicity. Activists are warning that the goal is to keep an eye over ethnic minorities in China, including the Uyghurs. This is […]
03/02/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Oxford University lab researching coronavirus was just targeted in a cyberattack
“Portuguese-speaking” South American hackers have targeted the biomedical systems in a laboratory in the University of Oxford that is conducting research on the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). Officials from Oxford confirmed that its Division of Structural Biology, known as Strubi, was targeted by a cyber attack sometime in mid-February. The university was quick to point out that, while Strubi was researching […]
06/16/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
What could do more damage than a nuclear weapon? A hacker
A nuclear attack is terrifying, that much is certain. Both the United States and Russia have pulled out of a decades-old nuclear weapons pact; North Korea continues to test their missile program; and tensions in Iran are putting a lot of people on edge. However, there’s another threat that the world needs to look out for […]
05/12/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
Hackers can use this Bluetooth exploit to TRACK and IDENTIFY iOS and Microsoft smartphone users, warn security researchers
Researchers say they have found a flaw in Bluetooth communication that leaves many iOS and Microsoft devices open to being tracked. The researchers also warn that the flaw can leak a user’s ID. Devices that are susceptible to hacking include iOS devices such as iPads and Apple watches, Microsoft products like surface tablets and laptops and FitBits. […]
04/14/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
“Free” services with a cost: FaceApp has “perpetual, irrevocable” access to your content
Security experts are warning that FaceApp ?— a smartphone app developed by a Russian company in 2017 that takes your picture and transforms it ?— may have access to every single photo on your phone. Concerns have been raised around a questionable clause in the user agreement of the app that states that FaceApp can […]
02/28/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
Facial recognition company Clearview AI admits data breach exposing its ENTIRE clientele, including over 600 law enforcement agencies
American tech company Clearview AI, which provides facial recognition software, has just reported than an intruder who gained “unauthorized access” to secure company data and documents has stolen its entire client list. This includes all user accounts associated with every single one of their clients, as well as the number of searches made through those accounts. […]
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