A Danish man has become the first European to be convicted of taking part in the promotion of an illegal online film site.The 39-year-old man was handed a six-month suspended sentence by an Odense court for promoting the illegal online film streaming service Popcorn Time via his website popcorntime.dk. […] More specifically, the man was Read more about Danish man convicted of promoting illegal film service[…]
Yet the fallacy of meritocracy persists. Corporations, non-profits, governments, universities and even preschools test, score and hire the ‘best’. This all but guarantees not creating the best team. Ranking people by common criteria produces homogeneity. And when biases creep in, it results in people who look like those making the decisions. That’s not likely to Read more about Why hiring the ‘best’ people produces the least creative results[…]
Facial recognition technology is improving by leaps and bounds. Some commercial software can now tell the gender of a person in a photograph. When the person in the photo is a white man, the software is right 99 percent of the time. But the darker the skin, the more errors arise — up to nearly Read more about Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You’re a White Guy[…]
Thousands of websites around the world – from the UK’s NHS and ICO to the US government’s court system – were today secretly mining crypto-coins on netizens’ web browsers for miscreants unknown. The affected sites all use a fairly popular plugin called Browsealoud, made by Brit biz Texthelp, which reads out webpages for blind or Read more about At least 4200 popular and large websites hijacked by hidden crypto-mining code after popular plugin pwned[…]
IBM iNotes SUService can be misguided into running malicious code from a DLL masquerading as a windows DLL in the temp directory. IBM Plans to address this vulnerability by providing a fix. Source: IBM Security Bulletin: IBM Notes Privilege escalation in IBM Notes Smart Update Service – United States
It is not much to look at: the nematode C. elegans is about one millimetre in length and is a very simple organism. But for science, it is extremely interesting. C. elegans is the only living being whose neural system has been analysed completely. It can be drawn as a circuit diagram or reproduced by Read more about Worm brain translated into a computer is taught tricks without programming[…]
Razer is a vendor that makes high-end gaming hardware, including laptops, keyboards and mice. I opened a ticket with Razor a few days ago asking them if they wanted to support the LVFS project by uploading firmware and sharing the firmware update protocol used. I offered to upstream any example code they could share under Read more about Razer doesn’t care about Linux[…]