- Episode 644
- February 26, 2020
Pioneering African-American Nasa Mathematician Katherine Johnson Has Died
Katherine Johnson, calculated rocket trajectories and Earth orbits for Nasa's early space missions, has died at the age of 101.
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- Episode 644
- February 26, 2020
A New Algorithm Could Prevent Crashes and Traffic Jams in Autonomous Vehicles
Researchers have developed an algorithm that could stop self-driving vehicles from getting in crashes and traffic jams.
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- Episode 644
- February 26, 2020
WiFi Chips from Broadcom and Cypress Can Be Exploited to Leak Data
Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a new high-severity hardware vulnerability residing in the widely-used Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress—apparently powering over a billion devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, routers, and IoT gadgets.
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- Episode 644
- February 26, 2020
Guy Discovers While In Jail His Crypto Keys Worth $59m Are Incinerated
This week, the Irish Times reported the sad tale of Clifton Collins, a 49-year-old cannabis grower from Dublin. Collins quietly grew and sold his product for 12 years, and he amassed a small fortune by using some of that revenue to buy bitcoins around 2011 and 2012 before the price of the cryptocurrency soared. But in 2017, he was arrested with a five-year jail sentence, and recently learned that his crypto keys (which were safely hidden in his apartment) were discarded, and incinerated.
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- Episode 644
- February 26, 2020
Firefox Enforces DoH as Default and Robbie's Not Impressed
Firefox has begun the process of switching browser users to Cloudflare's encrypted-DNS service this week--DNS Over HTTPS, or DoH. The change rolls out across the United States in the coming weeks, and Robbie's not impressed that they're making it the default.
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- Episode 644
- February 26, 2020
Is Smart Tech Making Us Stupid? The Petnet "Smart" Feeder Stopped Feeding Pets for a Week.
Robbie thinks our faith in smart tech has made us stupid as owners of a convenience device designed to release food for pets say their animals were left hungry during a week-long system failure.
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- Episode 644
- February 26, 2020
All Music Melodies Have Entered The Public Domain Thanks To AI
Two programmer-musicians used AI to write every possible melody in existence to a hard drive in MIDI format, copyrighted the whole thing, and then released it all to the public domain in an attempt to stop musicians from getting sued.
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- Episode 643
- February 19, 2020
RSA (The Company) Being Sold for $2.075bn
RSA helps companies confirm user IDs and manage other digital security risks. It serves 30,000 customers ranging from banks to consumer-goods makers. It also runs security conferences, including one scheduled for this month in San Francisco that IBM dropped out of recently. The sale, rubber stamped Tuesday, was made to a consortium led by STG Partners, a private equity investor that specialises in tech; Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board; and Dutch private equity group, AlpInvest Partners.
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- Episode 643
- February 19, 2020
A Windows 10 Update Leaves the User Profile Broken
Microsoft released a buggy security update for Windows 10 last week. Some Windows users report all the files on their desktop have been deleted.
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- Episode 643
- February 19, 2020
Mycroft AI Dealing With a Patent Troll Lawsuit
Mycroft AI was contacted in December by a lawyer at a Texas law firm focused on intellectual property claiming Mycroft AI's technology infringed two US patents belonging to their client, Voice Tech Corp. It escalated from there.
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