The summer is a bit slow for mobile news, but there was still a new phone, phone rumors, and plenty of Chromebook topics to cover on this week’s podcast. …read more Source:: ZDNet

White boxes bash Cisco, Android peer-to-peer speeds up and more net news ROUNDUP Did you ever wish you had a half-a-gigabit-per-second connection you could fire up anytime, at zero cost? You can, it turns out – but only between paired Android phones.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

A user on Medium named “Punch a Server” says you should not use Google Cloud due to the “‘no-warnings-given, abrupt way’ they pull the plug on your entire system if they (or the machines) believe something is wrong.” The user has a project running in production on Google Cloud (GCP) that is used to monitor…

The Raspberry Pi in general (and the Zero W model in particular) are wonderful pieces of hardware, but they’re not entirely plug-and-play when it comes to embedded applications. The user is on the hook for things like providing a regulated power source, an OS, and being mindful of proper shutdown and ESD precautions. Still, the…

More companies – particularly social media firms – may follow Facebook’s footsteps in turning to bug bounty programs to scout out any data privacy abuse on their platforms, experts say. …read more Source:: Threatpost

China’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer, BYD, is opening a new battery factory that it claims will be the “largest in the world.” Electrek reports: The factory is located in the western province of Qinghai and while it was “opened” this week, it is still under construction and BYD aims to complete it by the end…

New macOS malware targets crypto community via chat networks Slack and Discord. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The subpoena demanded Twitter turn over information that would identify the data breach finder. …read more Source:: ZDNet

AT&T has been fined $5.25 million for an outage last year that resulted in 12,000 callers not being able to reach 911. The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau made the announcement on Thursday, stating that “such preventable outages are unacceptable.” Gizmodo reports: Aside from the fine — which is really a drop in the bucket for the…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MSPoweruser: Today, Microsoft announced that it is releasing 124 Million building footprints in the United States to the OpenStreetMap community. Bing Maps team used Microsoft’s CNTK Unified Toolkit to apply its Deep Neural Networks and the ResNet34 with RefineNet up-sampling layers to detect building footprints from the Bing…