Day: September 19, 2018

Facebook is setting up a ‘war room’ ahead of Brazil and US elections – CNET

The social network also says it removed almost 1.3 billion fake accounts between October and March. …read more Source:: CNet


New planet could be Mr. Spock’s Star Trek home world – CNET

Here’s some science to go with your favorite science fiction. Elon Musk, can you get us to Vulcan? …read more Source:: CNet


Amazon is Reportedly Planning Up To 3,000 Cashierless Stores By 2021

Amazon is planning to open 3,000 of its cashierless stores by 2021, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, planning a major push into retail as it continues to scale its online platform. CNBC: The e-commerce giant currently has three locations open in Seattle, where Amazon is headquartered, and just this past week opened a location in Chicago. Bloomberg…


Reimagining of Schrodinger’s Cat Breaks Quantum Mechanics — and Stumps Physicists

In a multi-‘cat’ experiment, the textbook interpretation of quantum theory seems to lead to contradictory pictures of reality, physicists claim. New submitter Lanodonal shares a report: In the world’s most famous thought experiment, physicist Erwin Schrodinger described how a cat in a box could be in an uncertain predicament. The peculiar rules of quantum theory…


Patch for EE’s 4G Wi-Fi mini modem nails local privilege escalation flaw

Better update if you leave your laptop unattended in public… Telco EE’s Mini Wi-Fi modem needs to be updated with a recently issued patch.… …read more Source:: Register


Red Dead Online could make Rockstar’s western a GTA V-sized juggernaut – CNET

Commentary: Rockstar Games is back at it again with another open-world online mode. …read more Source:: CNet


Cloudflare Wants Internet Route Leaks To Be a Thing of the Past

Cloudflare wants routing issues to be a thing of the past by deploying a new feature to try to stop route leaks and hijacks in their tracks. From a report: Cloudflare told TechCrunch that rolling out resource public key infrastructure (RPKI) to all of its customers for free will make it far more difficult to…


Box-Office Giant Ticketmaster Recruits Pros For Secret Scalper Program

Box-office giant Ticketmaster is recruiting professional scalpers who cheat its own system to expand its resale business and squeeze more money out of fans, a CBC News/Toronto Star investigation reveals. The report adds: In July, the news outlets sent a pair of reporters undercover to Ticket Summit 2018, a ticketing and live entertainment convention at…


Access to over 3,000 backdoored sites sold on Russian hacking forum

Researchers blow the lid on MagBO, a marketplace for selling access to hacked sites …read more Source:: ZDNet


With Einstein Voice, conversational CRM is about to go mainstream

With Dreamforce around the corner, Salesforce jumps into the voice assistants race with Einstein Voice. …read more Source:: ZDNet