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Emerging Technology and Privacy: What You Need to Know - As technology evolves and the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning becomes increasingly mainstream, consumers are more concerned than ever before about protecting their privacy. Awareness surrounding how activities are being tracked and how personal information is being accessed and used is growing. The worlds biggest companies are frequently being challenged on the ways that they collect and utilize peoples data.
An Open-Source Success Story: Apache SpamAssassin Celebrates 18 Years of Effectively Combating Spam Email - Apache SpamAssassin celebrates its 18th birthday this year, a huge accomplishment for everyone who has contributed to the open-source project for nearly the past two decades. SpamAssassin, a renowned and respected open-source anti-spam platform, provides a secure, reliable framework upon which companies can build highly effective spam filtering and email security solutions.
India is going ahead with its facial recognition program despite privacy concerns (Nov 11) | ||
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Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Security Updates for All Supported Ubuntu OSes (Nov 14) | ||
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We’ve got to regulate the application of AI — not the tech itself (Nov 11) | ||
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Linux vs. Zombieland v2: The security battle continues (Nov 14) | ||
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Virtual(ly) Private Network: NordVPN’s Breach and the Limitations of VPNs (Nov 12) | ||
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Ring Doorbells Had Security Bug That Exposed Wi-Fi Passwords To Hackers (Nov 13) | ||
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Fooling Voice Assistants with Lasers (Nov 12) | ||
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Intel, Mozilla, Red Hat, and Fastly partner to make WebAssembly a cross-platform runtime (Nov 13) | ||
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Technology and Policymakers (Nov 14) | ||
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Brave 1.0 launches, extends ad-watching payouts to iOS (Nov 15) | ||
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GitHub launches 'Security Lab' to help secure open source ecosystem (Nov 15) | ||
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How the Linux kernel balances the risks of public bug disclosure (Nov 18) | ||
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NSA won’t collect phone location data, promises US government (Nov 18) | ||
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