Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. In the last newsletter, we talked about using AI to tackle the problem of malware. That got me thinking about how we can come up with efficient machine learning (ML) models to detect malicious content, especially as they’re constantly evolving. You know how it goes: cyber baddies find one way to sneak malware onto computers, and security folks build defenses to stop them....

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At its most basic level, Ping.it was an RSS reader, but it was the ‘Probes’ feature that was particularly interesting. For example, if you only want to receive feeds on “YouTube videos on Reddit with more than 1,000 Likes”, you could create a Probe that taps both YouTube and Reddit to present this information directly in your feed. With its latest update, however, Ping.it may have just gotten smarter. With so-called ‘Insight Cards’, rather than simply presenting headlines and stories, Ping....

You can’t pirate a degree or a dormroom, but you can naughtily download that textbook your lecturer recommended. (You know, the one that you can’t find in the library. The one that coincidentally was written by your professor and costs $70. The one that was used during one lesson for about ten minutes, and then quickly dumped on a shelf where it was forgotten? The one that you absolutely couldn’t buy second hand, because of some marginal change between versions?...

I received a review unit of the PlayStation 5 from Sony several weeks ago, as well as a few titles to play on it. I’ve put multiple hours into it, and it wasn’t until I went back to my PS4 for a spot of multiplayer with a friend that I realized how much I had become used to the new features of the PS5, and how much of a downgrade it was to move back....

In fact, the desire to keep work from home has been so strong that it appears a significant majority of people would rather turn down a $30,000 salary increase than lose the ability to work from home. A poll posted on Blind, an anonymous forum for employees, asks: It’s far from a scientific survey, but with over 3,000 votes so far, 64.3% say they would rather keep working from home, while 35....

These proposals are the first attempts to create places for humans to live and work in space outside the framework of government space agencies. They’re part of what has been called “Space 4.0”, where space technology is driven by commercial opportunities. Many believe this is what it will take to get humans to Mars and beyond. There are currently two occupied space stations in low Earth orbit (less than 2,000km above Earth’s surface), both belonging to space agencies....

The scam, which is currently spreading through a series of sketchy websites, essentially offers victims a chance to earn 3 Ethereum (about $800 at the time of writing) in exchange for referring 1,000 visits through a referral link. The same websites also contain ads to software which generates “BTC for FREE” with the “Bitcoin Collector” app. The scheme was first discovered by a security researcher going by the nickname Frost, and later reported by BleepingComputer....

The iPhone maker hasn’t listed too many details about the bugs, apart from saying that they “may have been actively exploited.” One vulnerability is related to the kernel where the attacker could increase their privilege level (like becoming an admin) and cause serious damage to your device or steal your data. [Read: How this company leveraged AI to become the Netflix of Finland] The other two anomalies are related to Apple’s WebKit rendering engine that powers Safari; they allow attackers to execute arbitrary code that could be used to snoop on you....

Over 94 percent of all internet searches happen on a Google property — and the volume of Google searches grows by roughly 10 percent each year. 3.5 billion searches happen every day — and if your business isn’t featured at the top of those searches, your odds of attracting the attention you so desperately need drops exponentially. The key to topping Google searches is all about search engine optimization tactics, or SEO....

I spend much of my professional life writing about the damn things, yet every time I think I have a handle on the industry, something new appears. It’s exhausting. But the alternative is worse: a dull industry that stays the same. New companies and phones and approaches are what keeps things fresh — and this is where Realme comes in. No, the company’s not new per se, but it is making a real drive into Europe right now....

This makes for what could be the most compelling evidence for extraterrestrial life we’ve seen yet. According to a paper published in Nature Astronomy today, the massive 20-kilometer subsurface lake on Mars the group discovered is part of a cluster of lakes beneath the surface of the red planet: Using data generated from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter, the team initially discovered the first body of water by examining ‘bright spots’ that showed up on special RADAR images....

Highlights HDR10, Hybrid Log Gamma 300” max image size 1.36-2.18 throw ratio 60%/23% lens shift (horizontal/vertical) 1800 Lumens 4,000-15,000 lamp life I first took an interest in BenQ when I got to sit down with the HT2550 Ultra HD Projector which was, and still is, one of the best options on the lower end of the pricing scale. It features a sharp image and solid accuracy, but lacked the extended color gamut of its two newest models: the HT3550, and HT550....

What does it mean for you? You can sign into websites on Safari using your iPhone’s Face ID or Touch ID. Additionally, you can use hardware security keys that support FIDO standards for authentication as well. One example is Yubikey, which offers dual-connector authenticator with lightning and USB-C support. Apple already allows you to sign into apps using Face ID and Touch ID though keychain. Now, it’s also extending this support for websites in Safari 14, which will be available with iOS 14 and macOS 11....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Jane Didion used to say: Let’s make it rock! Bitcoin price We closed the day, September 03 2020, at a price of $10,245. That’s a very concerning 10.18 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$1161.89. It was the lowest closing price in thirty-eight days. We’re still 49 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Hegel used to say: Let’s make it rock! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, November 13 2019, at a price of $8,808. That’s a minor 0.04 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$3.77. It was the lowest closing price in one day. We’re still 56 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Faraday used to say: Talk to a stranger on a bus! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, August 22 2019, at a price of $10,131. That’s a minor 0.11 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$11.46. It was the lowest closing price in seven days....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Schopenhauer used to say: Live, laugh, love! Bitcoin price We closed the day, January 15 2020, at a price of $8,807. That’s a minor 0.20 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$18.32. It was the lowest closing price in one day. We’re still 56 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Nietzsche used to say: Crack open this tasty lobster! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, September 6 2019, at a price of $10,353. That’s a notable 2.12 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$224.90. It was the lowest closing price in three days. We’re still 48 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....

Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Hannah Arendt used to say: Time is money! Bitcoin price We closed the day, July 19 2020, at a price of $9,185. That’s a minor 0.30 percent increase in 24 hours, or $27. It was the highest closing price in three days. We’re still 54 percent below Bitcoin’s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017)....