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Facebook’s New Captcha Test: ‘Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face’

An anonymous reader shares a report: Facebook may soon ask you to “upload a photo of yourself that clearly shows your face,” to prove you’re not a bot. The company is using a new kind of captcha to verify whether a user is a real person. According to a screenshot of the identity test shared […]

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FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media

Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is doubling down on his critique of tech companies, asking whether social media is “a net benefit to American society” in remarks at the Media Institute on Wednesday. “Now, I will tell you upfront that I don’t have an answer.” From a report: What he said: Pai made the case […]

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Sensitive Personal Information of 246,000 DHS Employees Found on Home Computer

The sensitive personal information of 246,000 Department of Homeland Security employees was found on the home computer server of a DHS employee in May, according to documents obtained by USA TODAY. From the report: Also discovered on the server was a copy of 159,000 case files from the inspector general’s investigative case management system, which […]

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Apple To Review Software Practices After Patching Serious Mac Bug

Apple said on Wednesday it would review its software development process after scrambling to patch a serious bug it learned of on Tuesday in its macOS operating system for desktop and laptop computers. From a report: “We greatly regret this error and we apologize to all Mac users, both for releasing with this vulnerability and […]

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Amazon Launches Web Browser For Fire TV

An anonymous reader shares a report: You’ll never convince me that using an internet browser on a television set is anything but awkward and bad, but if for whatever reason you’ve been waiting to browse the web on Amazon’s Fire TV devices, the company has answered that call. The Amazon Silk browser, which already comes […]

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AI Goes Bilingual — Without a Dictionary

sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Automatic language translation has come a long way, thanks to neural networks — computer algorithms that take inspiration from the human brain. But training such networks requires an enormous amount of data: millions of sentence-by-sentence translations to demonstrate how a human would do it. Now, two new papers […]

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‘Break Up Google and Facebook If You Ever Want Innovation Again’

Hal_Porter shares a report from The Register: If the tech industry wants another wave of innovation to match the PC or the internet, Google and Facebook must be broken up, journalist and film producer Jonathan Taplin told an audience at University College London’s Faculty of Law this week. He was speaking at an event titled […]

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Three Quarters of Android Apps Track Users With Third Party Tools, Says Study

A study by French research organization Exodus Privacy and Yale University’s Privacy Lab analyzed the mobile apps for the signatures of 25 known trackers and found that more than three in four Android apps contain at least one third-party “tracker.” The Guardian reports: Among the apps found to be using some sort of tracking plugin […]

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A Supreme Court Case This Week Could Change US Digital Privacy Standards

On November 29th, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Carpenter v. US, a case essentially asking whether or not authorities need a warrant based on probable cause and signed by a judge to see your cellphone location data. For now, they do not. Given the fact that about 95% of Americans have […]

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PSA: Comcast Doesn’t Really Support Net Neutrality

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Slate: Anyone who has ever paid a bill to or waited for customer service from Comcast knows why it is one of America’s most detested companies, its recent efforts to improve its image notwithstanding. While Comcast says its customers will “enjoy strong net neutrality protections,” it hasn’t explicitly […]

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