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Hackers are actively exploiting a critical weakness found in most mobile phones to surreptitiously track the location of users and possibly carry out other nefarious actions, researchers warned.The attacks work by exploiting an interface intended to be used solely by cell carr
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Dorsey’s account began posting racial epithets, profanities and bomb threats. A company spokesman confirmed it was hacked.
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Amazon employs a global team that transcribes the voice commands captured after the wake word is detected and feeds them back into the software to help improve Alexa’s grasp of human speech so it can respond more efficiently in the future.
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Recent news reports in the last week revealed that Amazon has thousands of workers listening to Amazon Echo aka Alexa voice assistant recordings. The article lists ways to increase your privacy.
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A Princeton study analyzed of one million websites, and reveals the newest breed of site snoopers are tracking everything from battery level to your fonts, and it doesn't need cookies to do so.
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Private groups - like the one used by students whose Harvard acceptances were recently rescinded - may offer a false sense of confidence.
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Author Jean M. Twenge examines how smartphone and tablet access has impacted the "iGen" (those who grew up around these technologies), including its impact on loneliness, depression, sleep, and other aspects.
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Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials.
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In science-fiction author Cory Doctorow's short story "Scroogled," a woman shrugs when she sees "Immigration--Powered by Google" on an airport sign, but that's just the beginning of the search giant's presence in a not-too-distant future.