Day: October 5, 2018

Amazon fires employee for allegedly sharing customer email addresses – CNET

The company is working with law enforcement and informing affected customers. …read more Source:: CNet


Ralph Breaks the Internet footage debuts at New York Comic-Con – CNET

Ralph fans are treated to 20 minutes of never-before-screened clips from the sequel that brings the arcade characters to the internet. …read more Source:: CNet


Researchers Created ‘Quantum Artificial Life’ For the First Time

From a report: For the first time, an international team of researchers has used a quantum computer to create artificial life — a simulation of living organisms that scientists can use to understand life at the level of whole populations all the way down to cellular interactions. With the quantum computer, individual living organisms represented…


AI on Android mobile phones still a work-in-progress

Benchmark results from researchers at Swiss university ETH Zurich reveal that development of neural networks on mobile devices is still a hairy business, with frameworks that are incomplete, chipsets with mixed support for networks, and results that are difficult to benchmark reliably. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Sony Smart TV Bug Allows Remote Access, Root Privileges

Software patching becomes a new reality for smart TV owners. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Amazon fires employee for allegedly selling customer email addresses – CNET

The company is working with law enforcement and informing affected customers. …read more Source:: CNet


Ask Slashdot: Which Motherboard Manufacturer Provides the Best Support?

New submitter Hrrrg writes: A number of years ago, I built a computer with an Asus LGA 1150 Z87-Pro motherboard. Since the discovery of the Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws, I was hoping for a BIOS update to address them. However, it seems that there will be no BIOS update forthcoming for this 5 year…


Apple software reportedly hobbles independent third-party repairs – CNET

Any change that involves Apple’s new T2 chip must be verified by software that only Authorized Service Providers can get, according to Apple documents. …read more Source:: CNet


Virus Bulletin 2018: Saudi Dissident Spyware Attack Belies Bigger Threat

A spyware attack on a Saudi dissident living in Canada made headlines this week, but Citizen Lab warns that simpler attacks are the real epidemic. …read more Source:: Threatpost


2018-2019 Jeep Wrangler JL facing recall over frame weld separations – Roadshow

Steering response might diminish or disappear entirely. It’s a big deal. …read more Source:: CNet