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1. Signal app guru Moxie: Facebook is like Exxon. Everyone needs it, everyone despises it
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Crypto expert panel tackles the big stories of the year RSA 2018  Speaking at the 2018 RSA conference, a board of some of the most respected names in security spoke on Tuesday and were scathing about Facebook ...

2. Security expert says she helped a casino whose high-roller database was stolen through an Internet of Shit fish-tank thermometer
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Darktrace CEO Nicole Eagan's presentation to last week's WSJ CEO Council Conference in London included an anaecdote about an unnamed casino for whom her firm had done work; they uncovered a data-breach ...

3. ESET launches new enterprise security solutions
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Cyber security company ESET is using this week's RSA Conference in San Francisco to launch its new range of enterprise security products. These include a new ESET Enterprise Inspector, an Endpoint Detection ...

4. Thousands of Android apps have built-in crypto keys and passwords
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A large number of free Android apps suffer with flaky security because software developers are leaving cryptographic keys embedded and passwords hard-coded. Speaking at the BSides security conference in ...

5. Router ravaging, crippling code, and why not to p*ss off IT staff
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The wacky week in security Roundup  It has been a busy week for security, with the CYBERUK 2018 conference in the UK and the industry gearing up for BSides and the RSA conference in San Francisco next ...

6. 7th Registration Operations Workshop (ROW), Vancouver, Thursday May 17th 2018
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The Registration Operations Workshop (ROW) was conceived as an informal industry conference that would provide a forum for discussion of the technical aspects of registration operations in the domain name ...

7. Microsoft to announce Build session schedule the week of April 23
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So far, the only sessions that Microsoft has published for its Build 2018 developer conference are a select few. Now, the company has updated its site to say that the full schedule is coming soon. Read ...

8. UK hit Islamic State with 'major offensive cyber-campaign'
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The UK surveillance agency, GCHQ, has revealed that it launched cyberattacks on Islamic State. Speaking at the Cyber UK conference, GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming said that it had launched a "major offensive ...

9. The 500M Wireless-Only Connections
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... countries. In 2012, I predicted that systems virtually excluding the majority of Internet users would prove unstable; we've seen the development of the World Internet Conference & the BRICS events ...

10. A Comment on the Military Industrial Complex
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... the last time. There were a lot of eyes in the conference room, and they were all turned on him. Simon worked for the kind of company which made missiles. The test in the video was one of the highly ...

11. Burning Man founder Larry Harvey in critical condition after 'massive stroke'
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... Burning Man Founder Larry Harvey Hospitalized photo by @Kmeron for LeWeb13 Conference Read all  ...

12. DevOps, Container, and Continuous Delivery elite head to London
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Clock is ticking on Continuous Lifecycle London 2018 There are just six weeks till we open the doors at Continuous Lifecycle London, so to ensure a prime spot at both the conference and our deep-dive all-day ...

13. Windows 10 on ARM will support 64-bit apps in May, but not the ones you want
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According to reports, Microsoft will be releasing an ARM64 SDK at its Build 2018 developer conference in May. Unfortunately, it still doesn't solve the problem of currently unsupported x64 apps. Read ...

14. Privacy: Facebook will roll out GDPR controls to the whole world, not just Europe
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Mark Zuckerberg has laid out Facebook's plans for the future in a conference call with reporters. In it, he said that the social network now planned to bring GDPR-style privacy controls to all of its users, ...

15. Zuckerberg: Nobody has been fired over Cambridge Analytica
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Facebook has been ramping up its damage control as outrage continues over the Cambridge Analytica mess. But it seems nobody at the social media company has been let go as a consequence. On a media conference ...

16. After 17 years, luxury hotel lifts ban for man whose pepperoni brought disaster to his room
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... from Nova Scotia, was in Victoria, British Columbia for a work-related conference. He chose to stay at the Fairmont Empress Hotel: a high-falootin' luxury joint that's been a fixture on the city's downtown ...

17. Here is your low down on TensorFlow updates, France's AI strategy, and a new DeepMind lab
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The wacky world of AI this week Roundup  Here's your weekly AI roundup. There were new announcements from Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference and Google's TensorFlow Dev Summit while France announced its ...

18. Here is your low down on TensorFlow updates, France's AI strategy, and a new DeepMind lab
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The wacky world of AI this week Roundup  Here's your weekly AI roundup. There were new announcements from Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference and Google's TensorFlow Dev Summit while France announced its ...

19. Facebook reviews defenses as exec pulls foot from mouth
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We didn't really mean growth matters more than human life Facebook held a press conference on Thursday to provide details about its efforts to prevent electoral manipulation, only to have its damage control ...

20. Facebook is hosting an online abuse summit with other tech leaders
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Facebook is trying to bring all the wars it's fighting under one roof. At the "Fighting Abuse @Scale" conference later next month, the social network will host talks on combating fake news, ...

21. Magic Leap developer units must be kept in locked safes
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Magic Leap is known for its secrecy. The company kept its One headset under wraps for years, teasing out details with ambiguous conference speeches and restrictive press opportunities. It should come as ...

22. Pope won't apologize for brutal treatment of Indigenous Canadians
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... the New York Times:“The Holy Father is aware of the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which he takes seriously,” Bishop Lionel Gendron, who is president of the Canadian Conference of ...

23. Microsoft finally introduces its cloud-connected data types for Excel
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Announced at its Ignite 2017 conference over six months ago, Microsoft finally confirmed today that its cloud-connected data types in Excel will be rolling out this month to Insiders. Read more... Read ...