Paypal PayPal reinstates controversial policy of pocketing fees from refundsThe Verge - Nick StattPayPal is reinstating a controversial policy around its handling of fees in the event of a refund. Starting next month, PayPal will begin pocketing the initial 2.9 percent commission fee sellers forfeit
News To fight ‘evil’ ICE, an engineer pulled his code off GithubThe Verge - Zoe SchifferWhen engineer Seth Vargo found that a company using his open-source code worked with US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, he pulled the code off Github. The company, enterprise software maker Chef,
Books The Pragmatic Programmer: Classic developer handbook is retooled for the 21st centuryTechRepublic - Nick Heath The authors of The Pragmatic Programmer 20th Anniversary Edition on how software development has changed and the essential skills for a modern …
Technology Google removes two Chrome ad blocker extensions caught 'cookie stuffing'ZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu Two Chrome ad blockers caught manipulating cookies so extension devs could earn commissions on users' backs. Google has removed today two extensions …
Internet of Things ‘Security’ Cameras Are Dry Powder for Hackers. Here’s WhyFortune - Robert Hackett Researchers have long bemoaned the insecurity of certain "security" cameras. Ostensibly installed to deter and thwart intruders, many actually can be …
Mobile Technology Firefox calls BS on Google's full-page privacy ads in the Washington PostMashable - Jack MorseHey Google, you're not fooling anyone. The tech giant made a play for Washington Post print edition readers today in the form of three full-page ads extolling its commitment to privacy. Firefox, it seems,
Samsung Samsung has unearthed the secret path to immortal SSDsDigital Trends - Jonathan Terrasi Samsung has announced a set of advances in its solid state drive (SSD) technology that could dramatically extend the lifespan of its storage …
Technology IBM’s new 53 qubit quantum computer is the most powerful machine you can useMIT Technology Review - Martin Giles The machine will be available for researchers and companies to run applications via the cloud. The news: IBM’s new computer, due to launch next month, …
FBI The FBI Tried to Plant a Backdoor in an Encrypted Phone NetworkVICE - Joseph CoxThe FBI tried to force the owner of an encrypted phone company to put a backdoor in his devices, Motherboard has learned. The company involved is Phantom Secure, a firm that sold privacy-focused BlackBerry
Mobile Technology Smart TVs, smart-home devices found to be leaking sensitive user data, researchers findNBC News - Jason Abbruzzese"Nearly all TV devices in our testbeds contacts Netflix even though we never configured any TV with a Netflix account," the researchers wrote. Smart-home devices, such as televisions and streaming boxes,
Technology How to crack the skills dilemmaMIT Technology Review - MIT Technology Review Insights Today’s fast-changing workplaces need employees who can keep up with advances in technology—and employers who can remove the obstacles to …
OpenAI OpenAI and DeepMind teach AI teamwork by playing hide-and-seekVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersThe age-old game of hide-and-seek can reveal a lot about how AI weighs decisions with which it’s faced, not to mention why it interacts the way it does with other AI within its sphere of influence — or
Google Fi Google Fi adds ‘Unlimited’ data and international calling plan at $70/month9to5Google - Abner LiSince early 2018, Google Fi has effectively offered an $80 unlimited plan with its “Bill Protection” program. The Google MVNO is now launching an official “Unlimited” plan for both data and international
Singularity Why These Two Innovations In Artificial Intelligence Are So Important: Eye on A.I.Fortune - Jeremy Kahn, Jonathan Vanian In the past few weeks, two important developments in artificial intelligence research have gone largely unheralded. Both hint at just how earth …
Google Docs How to Use Track Changes in Google DocsPCMag - Jill Duffy Learn about and discuss the changes other people want to make to your writing within the documents themselves with Google Docs, an excellent tool for …
Game Development Network Next goes global with tech to reduce lag in multiplayer online gamesVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiNetwork Next has developed a technology to reduce lag — or interaction delays that can ruin fast gameplay — for multiplayer online games, and now it is rolling it out around the world. The Santa Monica,
Cybersecurity The Air Force Will Let Hackers Try to Hijack an Orbiting SatelliteWIRED - Condé Nast When the Air Force showed up at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas last month, it didn’t come empty-handed. It brought along an F-15 fighter …
Technology Oracle introduces free autonomous database and cloud servicesZDNet - Stephanie Condon The free tier, available to anyone for an unlimited amount of time, is aimed at the next generation of developers and enterprises that have yet to …
Dark Web 6 Dark Web Myths Perpetuated by the Mainstream Mediahackernoon.com - Sandeep Rathore How do you know the dark web? Many people know this term from movies or news reports. Like any misunderstood technology, the dark web also has some …
Cybersecurity You Should Update LastPass Right NowGizmodo - Victoria Song LastPass has fixed a security bug that could have revealed credentials entered on a previously visited site. But to be safe, LastPass users should …
Chun-Li Twitch Suspends Streamer After She Wears Chun-Li Cosplay [Updated]Kotaku - Cecilia D'Anastasio Last night, Twitch suspended art streamer Quqco after she livestreamed herself wearing cosplay of Chun-Li from Street Fighter, Dexerto first …
Literature Most Isolated Tribe In Continental U.S. Gets BroadbandNPR - Laurel MoralesNestled among turquoise blue waterfalls and cottonwood trees, the tiny Havasupai reservation is accessible only by foot, by mule or by helicopter. It's a five-minute flight from the rim of the Grand Canyon
Bitcoin China Plans to Kill Most of the World's Bitcoin Mining OperationsVICE - David GilbertThe Chinese government will end bitcoin mining operations in the coming months, Bloomberg reported over this January, a move that could have a massive impact on the price of the world’s biggest digital
Augmented Reality Cambridge Engineers Have Developed A Futuristic Augmented Reality RigMashable - Aakarsh DubeEngineers from the University of Cambridge have come up with a head-mounted display for augmented reality (AR) that overcomes nausea or eye strain side effects that are generally experienced by users.
Cognitive Computing Artificial Intelligence Confronts a 'Reproducibility' CrisisWIRED - Condé Nast A few years ago, Joelle Pineau, a computer science professor at McGill, was helping her students design a new algorithm when they fell into a rut. …
Codes Object Detection with Less Than 10 Lines of Code Using Pythontowardsdatascience.com - Sabina Pokhrel Or perhaps you want to count the number of apples in an image? In this post, I will show you how to create your own object detection program using …
Technology Popular consumer and enterprise routers, IoT devices contain remote access vulnerabilitiesZDNet - Charlie Osborne A new study reveals vulnerability rates are not decreasing in our connected devices -- far from it. As our devices become smarter and …
Technology LastPass fixes flaw that leaked previously used credentialsTNW - Ravie LakshmananPopular password manager LastPass has fixed a serious flaw in its latest update that potentially allowed a malicious website to access the last used credentials entered by the browser extension. The clickjacking
Gaming The connection between video games and mass shootings isn’t just wrong—it’s racistMIT Technology Review - Tanya Basu When a perpetrator is a young white man, people blame video games. If he’s black, people make up a troublingly racist narrative. Video games have been …
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