Day: September 20, 2018

In a race to 5G, Trump has stuck a ball-and-chain on America’s leg

China tit-for-tat tariff tiff a terrible thing, warns FCC Commissioner Comment President Donald Trump’s trade war with China may come with a serious cost to America’s next-generation cellular networks, a federal regulator has warned.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Lucy Gang Debuts with Unusual Android MaaS Package

The threat actor’s Android-focused cyber-arms package, dubbed Black Rose Lucy, is limited in reach for now, but clearly has global ambitions. …read more Source:: Threatpost


UK government could police social media with internet regulator – CNET

Social networks would have to enforce age verification and sign a compulsory code of conduct. …read more Source:: CNet


Radio Astronomers Are Increasingly Using Convolutional Neural Networks To Sift Through Massive Amounts of Data

Radio astronomers have so far cataloged fewer than 300 fast radio bursts, mysterious broadband radio signals that originate from well beyond the Milky Way. Almost a third of them — 72, to be precise — were not detected by astronomers at all but instead were recently discovered by an artificial intelligence (AI) program trained to…


iPhone XS launch imminent, customers line up at Apple stores across the world – CNET

The iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and Apple Watch Series 4 launch in-stores Sept. 21. …read more Source:: CNet


Account Takeover Attacks Become a Phishing Fave

More than three-quarters of ATOs resulted in a phishing email, a new report shows. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture

Two mathematicians have found what they say is a hole at the heart of a proof that has convulsed the mathematics community for nearly six years. Quanta Magazine: In a report [PDF] posted online Thursday, Peter Scholze of the University of Bonn and Jakob Stix of Goethe University Frankfurt describe what Stix calls a “serious,…


10 percent of all Gmails are written by Google robots – CNET

The Smart Reply feature is apparently catching on. …read more Source:: CNet


Amazon Echo Plus stays $150 but gets clearer sound, temperature sensor – CNET

The higher-end Echo smart speaker will also have a more powerful bass. …read more Source:: CNet


C64 Keyboard Helps Keep The Memory Alive

To say that the Commodore 64 was an important milestone in the history of personal computing is probably a bit of an understatement. For a decent chunk of the 1980s, it was the home computer, with some estimates putting the total number of them sold as high as 17 million. For hackers of a certain…