Contrary to honor and integrity When it emerged that border patrol agents were posting racist, sexist and abusive content on a secret Facebook group, the chief of the agency did the right thing and condemned the behavior.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The big four carriers are battening the LTE hatches ahead of the incoming potential hurricane. …read more Source:: CNet

The hearts of young city dwellers contain billions of toxic air pollution particles, research has revealed. The Guardian: Even in the study’s youngest subject, who was three, damage could be seen in the cells of the organ’s critical pumping muscles that contained the tiny particles. The study suggests these iron-rich particles, produced by vehicles and…

The culprit? .*(?:.*=.*) Cloudflare has published a detailed and refreshingly honest report into precisely what went wrong earlier this month when its systems fell over and took a big wedge of the internet with it.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Geotagged Twitter data shows the states that are least happy about Amazon’s Prime Day. …read more Source:: CNet

ML Perf could do with more entrants’ results Analysis Nvidia and Google continue to dominate in AI hardware, according to the latest benchmarking results from the ML Perf project published this week.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

New submitter popcornfan679 shares a report: Through a public record request, Motherboard has obtained a user manual that gives unprecedented insight into Palantir Gotham (Palantir’s other services, Palantir Foundry, is an enterprise data platform), which is used by law enforcement agencies like the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center. (Palantir is one of the most significant…

The Federal Trade Commission is said to have approved a settlement with Facebook. …read more Source:: CNet

Scrambling addresses can’t always hide you from stalkers, say eggheads A team of US academics have proposed a simple method to defeat the Bluetooth LE standard’s anti-tracking measures.… …read more Source:: Register

Rupert Murdoch’s News Group has agreed to pay damages to Paul McCartney’s ex as part of the massive phone-hacking scandal by UK tabloids. …read more Source:: Threatpost