Day: July 14, 2020

Privacy watchdogs from the UK, Australia team up, snap on gloves to probe AI-for-cops creeeps Clearview

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Following Canada’s lead earlier this week, privacy watchdogs in Britain and Australia today launched a joint investigation into how Clearview AI harvests and uses billions of images it scraped from the internet to train its facial-recognition algorithms. The startup boasted it had collected a database packed with more than three billion photos downloaded from people’s Read more about Privacy watchdogs from the UK, Australia team up, snap on gloves to probe AI-for-cops creeeps Clearview[…]

Guilty: Russian miscreant who hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring, stole 200-million-plus account records

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The Russian hacker accused of raiding LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring, and obtaining data on 213 million user accounts, has been found guilty. On Friday, Yevgeniy Nikulin was convicted [PDF] by a San Francisco jury of committing computer intrusion, data theft, and other charges [PDF] relating to the databases he broke into and siphoned off in Read more about Guilty: Russian miscreant who hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring, stole 200-million-plus account records[…]

Collabera hacked: IT staffing’n’services giant hit by ransomware, employee personal data stolen

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Hackers infiltrated Collabera, siphoned off at least some employees’ personal information, and infected the US-based IT consultancy giant’s systems with ransomware. We understand this swiped data included workers’ names, addresses, contact and social security numbers, dates of birth, employment benefits, and passport and immigration visa details. Basically, everything needed for identity theft. The recruitment’n’staffing biz, Read more about Collabera hacked: IT staffing’n’services giant hit by ransomware, employee personal data stolen[…]

Porsche Found a Way to 3D-Print Lightweight Pistons That Add Even More Horsepower

Posted on by Robin Edgar

With select bucket seats from the 911 and 718 as well as various classic car parts—including clutch release levers for the 959—already being produced using 3D printing, Porsche is more familiar with the technology than most. Now, the automaker is taking things even further, 3D printing entire pistons for its most powerful 991-gen 911, the Read more about Porsche Found a Way to 3D-Print Lightweight Pistons That Add Even More Horsepower[…]