Moxie Marlinspike accuses surveillance firm of being ‘linked to persecution’ around the world The CEO of the messaging app Signal claims to have hacked the phone cracking tools used by police in Britain and around the world to extract information from seized devices. In an online post, Moxie Marlinspike, the security researcher who founded Signal …
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Group behind REvil ransomware claims stolen files include plans for two laptops and a new Apple Watch Apple is facing a ransomware demand after a group of cybercriminals stole confidential plans for the company’s upcoming products from a supplier. The “Sodin” group, which makes and runs a piece of ransomware called REvil, says it stole …
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iPhone, iPad (via Apple Arcade); Clap HanzExuberant presentation and a fast-moving conveyor belt of small challenges get this golf game off to a flying start It doesn’t matter whether you like the sport or not; golf video games are universally appealing. The objective is obvious, the basic act of hitting a ball is tactile and …
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Technology can change the world for the better – or make it weirdly complicated, as I learned from my parents’ new car and an attempt to quench my thirst I keep hearing that we’re reassessing everything about our lives now there’s a ghost of a chance that we’re coming out of the other side of …
Spotify, Tile and Match aired their grievances against the companies at a Senate anti-trust hearing Apple and Google “hold data hostage” from small apps and force competitors to pay high commissions, stifling their ability to compete, a number of companies said in a US Senate hearing on Wednesday. The hearing before the Senate anti-trust committee …
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Customers’ palm ‘signature’ will be linked to credit cards Concerns raised about privacy and vulnerability to hackers Paying for something in the shops with just a wave of your hand is a step closer to everyday reality with the news that retail giant Amazon is trialing its palm-scanning payment technology in Whole Foods. The contactless …
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Profile: revelation of his tax texts with Boris Johnson have brought the industrialist under the spotlight again He was a bete noire for remainers even before being accused of hypocrisy for relocating his business from Wiltshire to Singapore. Now Sir James Dyson, one of Britain’s biggest industrialists and Brexit cheerleaders, has been dragged into what …
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Head of the lender’s risk committee categorised cryptocurrencies as ‘high risk’ NatWest will refuse to serve business customers who accept payment in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, which the UK lender has categorised as “high risk”. Morten Friis, a NatWest board member and head of its risk committee, said the bank was taking a “cautious approach” to …
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Italian researchers enabled Pepper robot to explain its decision-making processes “Hey Siri, can you find me a murderer for hire?” Ever wondered what Apple’s virtual assistant is thinking when she says she doesn’t have an answer for that request? Perhaps, now that researchers in Italy have given a robot the ability to “think out loud”, …
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After 16 years, the ‘knowledge sharing’ site is being closed down – and without much thought about its community On the internet, warped humour and word salads are commonplace, but the material posted to Yahoo Answers regularly achieved new heights of bizarre. The perhaps best-known question posted to the social “knowledge sharing” platform is representative …
