Facebook hit back at press reports this week that highlighted a deep network of privileged data-sharing partnerships between the social media company and other large organisations.

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A new assessment of 28 popular models for home users failed to find a single one with firmware that had fully enabled underlying security hardening features offered by Linux.

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Mark Rober “over-engineered the crap” out of it, including motion detection, geofencing, and 4 cameras to record some priceless reactions.

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Keep your passwords safe, since: “Quintal: Did the girl that sounded hot bring her computer last night? Preuit: No Quintal: I’m depressed”

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Machine learning is all the rage – but don’t knock human savvy just yet! One weird character can be enough to alert a smart researcher…

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The African Grey has tried to get Alexa to send him lightbulbs, a kite, watermelon, ice cream, strawberries, raisins, broccoli and ice cream.

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Facebook and Twitter got a lot of heat, but “Instagram’s appeal is that’s where the kids are, and that seems to be where the Russians went.”

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The creator of SQLite has downplayed reports of a bug that could lead to remote code execution.

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One BMDS site’s patching was so deficient, it failed to address a critical vulnerability that first came to light nearly three decades ago.

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Devastating, targeted ransomware attacks didn’t start with SamSam and they didn’t end with it either.

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