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China’s and Russia’s spying sprees will take years to unpack

China’s and Russia’s spying sprees will take years to unpack

First it was SolarWinds, a reportedly Russian hacking campaign that stretches back almost a year and has felled at least nine US government agencies and countless private companies. Now it’s Hafnium, a Chinese group that’s been attacking a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server to sneak into victims’ email inboxes and beyond. The collective toll of…
Amazon to roll out tools to monitor factory workers and machines

Amazon to roll out tools to monitor factory workers and machines

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Amazon is rolling out cheap new tools that will allow factories everywhere to monitor their workers and machines, as the tech giant looks to boost its presence in the industrial sector. Launched by Amazon’s cloud arm AWS, the new machine-learning-based services include hardware to monitor the health of heavy machinery and computer vision capable of…
VMWare Blend 11 includes assistance for Core i9 MacBook Pro and 18- core iMac Pro

VMWare Blend 11 includes assistance for Core i9 MacBook Pro and...

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Running a graphics-intensive Windows application on a Mac via Metal in VMWare Fusion 11. The new application menu in VMWare Fusion 11. Finder integration in VMWare Fusion 11. Customizing the Touch Bar in VMWare Fusion 11. A new version of virtualization software VMWare Fusion hit Macs this week. VMWare Fusion 11 adds a new application menu…
Chrome users have faced 3 security concerns over the past 24 hours

Chrome users have faced 3 security concerns over the past 24...

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Users of Google’s Chrome browser have faced three security concerns over the past 24 hours in the form of a malicious extension with more than 2 million users, a just-fixed zero-day, and new information about how malware can abuse Chrome's sync feature to bypass firewalls. Let’s discuss them one by one. First up, the Great…
Leading drone: Reaper ratings drone kill in air-to-air rocket test

Leading drone: Reaper ratings drone kill in air-to-air rocket test

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Enlarge / The MQ-9 Reaper isn't a fighter aircraft. But it could soon be armed to take out other drones, helicopters, or other aircraft, after a successful kill with a heat-seeking missile in a November 2017 test. The US Air Force has revealed that an MQ-9 Reaper uncrewed aircraft successfully shot down a smaller drone…
Low pay, bad potential customers, and mental toll: The dangers of microtask work

Low pay, bad potential customers, and mental toll: The dangers of...

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Enlarge / The Amazon Mechanical Turk, or mturk.com, website is displayed on a computer screen for a photograph in Tiskilwa, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images Getty Images Microtask platforms recruit humans to do the rating, tagging, review-writing, and poll-taking work that can't quite be automated with an…
Researchers use Starlink satellites to pinpoint location, similar to GPS

Researchers use Starlink satellites to pinpoint location, similar to GPS

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Enlarge / SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites launches from the Kennedy Space Center on October 6, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Signals from SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites can be used to pinpoint locations on Earth to within eight meters of accuracy, engineering researchers reported in a new peer-reviewed paper. Their report is…
Hybrid theory: Lockheed Martin, Boeing pitch updated F-22, F-15

Hybrid theory: Lockheed Martin, Boeing pitch updated F-22, F-15

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A transcript to this video can be found here. Almost since the day the last F-22 Raptor fighter jet rolled out of Lockheed Martin's assembly plant, the US Air Force has been making plans for its successor—a "sixth generation" fighter aircraft to continue the US military's dominance of the air. In 2016, the Air Force…
After White Home stop, Twitter CEO calls congresswoman about death risks

After White Home stop, Twitter CEO calls congresswoman about death risks

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Enlarge / A controversial tweet by President Trump was the subject of a phone call between Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to the Washington Post. Just after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey paid a visit to the White House on April 23, he called Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar about a somewhat related…
Boeing/Saab joint T-X style wins Flying force’s jet fitness instructor competitors

Boeing/Saab joint T-X style wins Flying force’s jet fitness instructor competitors

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Enlarge / The Boeing/Saab T-X has won the Air Force's advanced jet trainer contract. Boeing The end-of-the-year contract rush for the US Defense Department has been good to Boeing. As the clock ticks down on the fiscal year, Boeing grabbed its third DOD contract in a month. This time, it's the Air Force's T-X next-generation…

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