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Algorithm Can Identify Suicidal People Using Brain Scans

An anonymous reader quotes a report from WIRED: In a study published today in Nature Human Behavior, researchers at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh analyzed how suicidal individuals think and feel differently about life and death, by looking at patterns of how their brains light up in an fMRI machine. Then they trained […]

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Facebook Says 126 Million Americans May Have Seen Russia-Linked Political Posts

Facebook said on Monday that Russia-based operatives published about 80,000 posts on the social network over a two-year period in an effort to sway U.S. politics and that about 126 million Americans may have seen the posts during that time. Reuters reports: Facebook’s latest data on the Russia-linked posts – possibly reaching around half of […]

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Calgary Police Cellphone Surveillance Device Must Remain Top Secret, Judge Rules

Freshly Exhumed writes from a report via CBC.ca: To protect police investigative techniques that may or may not have been used in a Calgary Police Service investigation, their controversial cellphone surveillance device will remain so secretive not even the make and model can be released to the public, according to a court ruling released Monday. […]

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A Surge of Sites and Apps Are Exhausting Your CPU To Mine Cryptocurrency

Dan Goodin, writing for ArsTechnica: The Internet is awash with covert crypto currency miners that bog down computers and even smartphones with computationally intensive math problems called by hacked or ethically questionable sites. The latest examples came on Monday with the revelation from antivirus provider Trend Micro that at least two Android apps with as […]

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Seagate’s New ‘SkyHawk AI’ Disk Drive Is Just a Slightly Higher Speced Version of Its Predecessor

ourlovecanlastforeve shares a report from The Register, where Chris Mellor takes a look at Seagate’s recently launched “SkyHawk” and “SkyHawk AI” HDDs. After closer inspection, Mellor concludes that the “AI” variant has a more buzz-worthy name and “slightly higher numbers on the specs” than its “SkyHawk” brethren. From the report: Seagate has bolted “AI” to […]

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BlackBerry CEO Promises To Try To Break Customers’ Encryption If the US Government Asks Him To

An anonymous reader writes from a report via Techdirt that claims the company has “chosen to proclaim its willingness to hack into its own customers’ devices if the government asks.” From the report: From a Forbes article: “[CEO John] Chen, speaking at a press Q&A during the BlackBerry Security Summit in London on Tuesday, claimed […]

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GameStop Is Launching An Unlimited Used Game Rental Subscription, Says Report

According to a leaked advertisement, GameStop is rolling out a used game rental subscription service. Subscribers will be able to pick any used game, play it, return it and get another as often as they like. The service will reportedly cost $60 for six months, and players get to keep the last game they borrow. […]

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SpaceX Lands the 13th Falcon 9 Rocket of the Year In Flames

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida this afternoon and, while the rocket successfully delivered the Koreasat-5A to its designated orbit, it managed to catch fire after landing on one of SpaceX’s autonomous barges. The Verge reports: That rocket’s mission [was] to send a satellite known as Koreasat-5A into space, where it will hang […]

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Indiana Is Purging Voters Using Software That’s 99 Percent Inaccurate, Lawsuit Alleges

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Daily Beast: More than 99 percent of voter fraud identified by a GOP-backed program is false, a study by Harvard, Yale, and Microsoft researchers found. Now Indiana is using the faulty program to de-register voters without warning. In July, Indiana rolled out a new law allowing county […]

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How Kodi Took Over Piracy

A reader shares a report: For years, piracy persisted mainly in the realm of torrents, with sites like The Pirate Bay and Demonoid connecting internet denizens to premium content gratis. But a confluence of factors have sent torrent usage plummeting from 23 percent of all North American daily internet traffic in 2011 to under 5 […]

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