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Christopher Wray made the comments during a hearing in the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, as senators probed leaders from Homeland Security, the FBI, and the National Counterterrorism Center about ongoing threats to the homeland. “We are looking at it from an investigative perspective, including [the] tools that we have to follow the money [with] … in this new world that we’re living in,” Wray said as he highlighted other technologies keeping law enforcement on their toes....

Dubbed “Graboid,” the worm infects compromised hosts with malware that covertly abuses the systems to mine privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero before randomly spreading to the next target. Docker is a popular platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution for Linux and Windows that allows developers to deploy, test, and package their applications in a contained virtual environment (called “containers”) — in a way that isolates the service from the host system they run on. It’s also similar to a virtual machine, but unlike the latter, containers don’t require a whole virtual operating system....

A hacker cracked the Washington, D.C. Metro Police Department and stole 70,000 emails, including many which led to some serious embarrassment and questions about the department. Meanwhile, two years’ worth of emails from several City of Chicago employees were also stolen recently as authorities try to determine the scope of the information that was compromised. So if agencies like city governments and police departments aren’t safe from having their emails exploited, what chance do the rest of us have from watching our emails fall into the wrong hands?...

What does it take to seal a deal? You’d be forgiven if you thought it was a smile and a handshake. Even above financial merits, people skills and interpersonal relationships have historically been the currency that ultimately helps business interests come together. But that may not be the case in the not too distant future. In fact, two-thirds of senior managers in a UK survey said data analytics will eventually overtake people skills as the most important factor in business negotiations....

It’s part of Pope Francis’ commitment to turn the Vatican carbon neutral by 2050, as he announced in December 2020. The Church also plans to increase the number of charging stations, especially around several of the major basilicas in Rome. Pope Francis has supported environmental initiatives since the beginning of his service, and it comes as no surprise that the Nissan LEAF isn’t the first green vehicle gifted to him....

Up front: The Alphabet-owned UK outfit that answered the question of whether humans or computers are better at chess once and for all – the machines won – has now set its sights on the world of large language models (LLM). To that end, today it announced “Gopher,” a language model that’s about 60% larger, parameter-wise, than GPT-3 and a little over a quarter of the size of Google’s massive trillion-parameter LLM....

The sweeping rules extend to any biometric surveillance systems, including voice recognition and any tech that identifies people by physical characteristics, such as gait analysis (yes, you really can be spotted by the way you walk). Notably, the law’s been backed by a range of civil liberties groups — but not any Big Tech firms, which have suspiciously supported previous federal proposals. The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2020 would immediately stop all federal agencies from using the tech....

As a creative field, Design found its Analogy with architecture; it was required to be functional, usable, and predictable, while also being beautiful, emotional, and novel. Designers considered business priorities, user needs, and material constraints amongst other factors, and designed the solutions. These factors (or requirements) remained constant while the designers channeled their creativity to come up with innovative and perfectionist solutions for the target market. The present: Create for the personas In the digital world, Design borrowed tenets from the previous era but with one fundamental difference: the solution became a living entity....

“I definitely wouldn’t have gotten into programming if I hadn’t played games as a kid,” said Mark Zuckerberg. Designers can have a significant influence over future generations because creating a winning app for kids has an incredible but often underestimated power to mold the future. These winning apps may someday be responsible for creating the next Zuckerberg. Building apps for kids isn’t easy. In fact, it’s often quite difficult. But the most popular interactive apps for kids have achieved success because they follow certain best practices....

Little did we know we’d soon all be doing our own unintentional ‘experiment’ into the benefits and evils of working solo. But now, after close to two years, offices in many parts of the world are asking employees to return to work. Needless to say, this is creating some tension between those who have been twiddling their thumbs of boredom at home and those of us who will be dragging our feet back to the noisy environs of the open office space....

In the text, police encouraged witnesses to come forward with information that could help them figure out what caused the fire, as a result of which a 22-year-old man lost his life. Instead of a link the official police website, though, the text took recipients to an explicit video. “The police today sent an SMS blast [Dutch: SMS-bom] to people with a link that is incorrect,” the police wrote in a statement....

In an announcement on Twitter, the company noted that in-game and on-store purchases have been disabled. We’ve had an amazing journey with you, but sadly it is time to say goodbye. By April 21, 2020, Tetris® and Tetris® Blitz will be retired. Thank you all for making this journey so memorable :) Please reach out to us here for any concerns –https://t.co/MCTJ14VwlD pic.twitter.com/jnX3jhXR2t — Tetris Blitz (@TetrisBlitzEA) January 21, 2020 But, if you’re a Tetris fan, you don’t need to worry....

Musk said Neuralink is currently developing brain implants that help people with paralysis control devices with their thoughts. He added that the tech could also enable people to communicate through their minds or save their brain state so when they die it gets uploaded to another body. The Tesla tycoon provided the rare update on Neuralink during a Sunday appearance on the invite-only Clubhouse app. [Read: How this company leveraged AI to become the Netflix of Finland] He described the device as “a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires that go to your brain....

Yep, you read that right. Musk said the company has to prove that bots consist of less than 5% of users on the platform. This comes after a Twitter filing with SEC earlier this month, that claimed that the number of bots and spam accounts in its daily active users count — 229 million in Q1 2022 — is less than 5%. Removing bots from Twitter was one of the Tesla CEO’s most advertised pitches when he was trying to take over the company....

At first glance, this sounds great – it’s just more proof of Europe’s ability to build and export high tech products. However, when taking a closer look, Nokia’s example reveals a worrying tendency: it seems that Europe is helping to develop tech innovations somewhere else rather than creating the necessary environment to cultivate them here. While Nokia creates and exports components of 5G networks, the USA and China put them together into systems that create added value to benefit the regions....

They found vulnerabilities in Project EV, Wallbox, EVBox, EO Charging’s EO Hub and EO mini pro 2, and Hypervolt, as well as the public charging network Chargepoint. They also examined EV’s Rolec but found no vulnerabilities. All hail the white hat hackers You’ve got to love white hat hackers. They work tirelessly to find vulnerabilities before the bad guys do. Unbelievably the company they’ve found fault with often only acknowledges their efforts after media reporting....

After two months of a rollercoaster ride, it seems that we’re near the end of this saga. Let’s back up and recap what’s happened in these last weeks. In July, President Donald Trump and other senior officials said they’re looking to ban TikTok amid tensions between the US and China, and suspicion of spying on Americans’ data. In August, Microsoft jumped in and said it wanted to buy the short video app....

Neuromorphic computing is not new. In fact, it was first proposed in the 1980s. But recent developments in the artificial intelligence industry have renewed interest in neuromorphic computers. The growing popularity of deep learning and neural networks has spurred a race to develop AI hardware specialized for neural network computations. Among the handful of trends that have emerged in the past few years is neuromorphic computing, which has shown promise because of its similarities to biological and artificial neural networks....

As German news outlet De Spiegel reports, a recent study by the IFO, a Munich-based economic research think-tank, claimed that a Mercedes-Benz C-class diesel produces fewer CO2 emissions than a Tesla Model 3. The study said that the C-class produces 141 grams of CO2 per kilometer, whereas the Model 3 Long-Range Dual Motor produces around 155 to 180 grams of CO2 per kilometer. [Read: Canyon’s electric car-bike hybrid concept might just be crazy enough to work] However, this study fell short of taking a holistic approach to considering the CO2 that’s produced when manufacturing the vehicles and making a fair comparison between the power of each vehicle....

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) February 18, 2020 Wong found the code in Facebook’s Android app that suggests the network is considering dividing the News Feed into three tabs: Relevant, Recent, and Seen. Facebook later confirmed to TechCrunch that it is testing the feature internally and considering an external test. Filtering your feed been already-seen posts isn’t new either, but again, it was obscure to the general public. It was only accessible by visiting the URL facebook....