Enlarge / Apple’s AirTags—as seen clipped to a backpack, above—allow users to attempt to find their own device via location rebroadcast from other Apple users. If all else fails, the user can enable a “Lost mode” intended to display their phone number when a finder scans the missing AirTag. (credit: James D. Morgan / Getty...
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Intel launches its next-generation neuromorphic processor—so, what’s that again?
Mike Davies, director of Intel’s Neuromorphic Computing Lab, explains the company’s efforts in this area. And with the launch of a new neuromorphic chip this week, he talked Ars through the updates. Despite their name, neural networks are only distantly related to the sorts of things you’d find in a brain. While their organization and...
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PoC exploit released for Azure AD brute-force bug—here’s what to do
Enlarge (credit: Michael Dziedzic) A public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for the Microsoft Azure Active Directory credentials brute-forcing flaw discovered by Secureworks and first reported by Ars. The exploit enables anyone to perform both username enumeration and password brute-forcing on vulnerable Azure servers. Although Microsoft had initially called the Autologon mechanism a “design”...
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Facebook Downplays Internal Research Released on Eve of Hearing
The social network published its findings about Instagram’s effect on young users, as senators prepared to question an executive on Thursday.
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How to Find ‘Stalkerware’ on Your Devices
These spyware apps record your conversations, location and everything you type, all while camouflaged as a calculator or calendar.
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Clive Sinclair, Inventive Computer Pioneer, Dies at 81
His inexpensive Sinclair personal computer, one of many inventions, was an introduction to computing for young people in Britain and beyond.
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YouTube Bans Anti-Vaccine Misinformation
The new set of policies will cover not just the Covid-19 vaccines or long-approved vaccines against diseases like measles and hepatitis B, but also general claims about vaccines, YouTube said.
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Amazon settles with activist workers who say they were illegally fired.
The two women said they had been fired for speaking out. The company said they had repeatedly flouted its employee policies.
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Russia arrests cybersecurity expert on treason charge
Enlarge / KAZAN, RUSSIA – JULY 9, 2020: Group-IB CEO and founder Ilya Sachkov speaks during a panel discussion with representatives of the IT industry at Innopolis’ Popov Technopark. (credit: Dmitry Astakhov | Getty Images) The founder of one of Russia’s largest cybersecurity companies has been arrested on suspicion of state treason and will be...
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(BPRW) National Urban League and Experian Launch Partnership to Support Financial Inclusion and Credit Education
(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The National Urban League and Experian North America today announced the launch of a new partnership to further the mission of financial inclusion and empowerment for all. National Urban League President and CEO