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T-Mobile Store Owner Made $25M Illegally Unlocking Cellphones

SecureWorld News

Most recently, a former T-Mobile retail store owner was convicted for stealing employee credentials to illegally access internal computer systems and unlock and unblock cellphones. which was a T-Mobile store, in Los Angeles in January 2017. How was he unlocking these phones?

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Pandemic spells uncertain future for bikes and scooters as mobility services confront new realities

GeekWire

But today, Seattle’s shared bicycles have all but disappeared from city streets as mobility companies that were already losing money absorb the shock of the coronavirus crisis. Seattle’s newly vacant streets reflect broader shifts in the largely untested micro-mobility industry. A micro-mobility test lab.

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Vizio files to go public, has sold over 80 million TVs

The Verge

Later in the filing, Vizio says: While we generate the significant majority of our total net revenue from sales of our Smart TVs and sound bars, our Platform+ net revenue has grown 304.4 Important background on Vizio’s data practices: the company agreed in 2017 to pay the FTC $2.2 percent from $36.4 million in 2018 to $147.2

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Stop using your phone number to log in

Vox

An estimated 35 million phone numbers are recycled every year in the United States, according to a 2017 FCC analysis of data from the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA). But even before the iPhone changed the mobile game, there were concerns over using phone numbers as identifiers. And there are currently 2.74

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The War in Technology: A Digital Iron Curtain Goes Up

SecureWorld News

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Russia has been working on creating its own isolated Internet for some time—tests have been conducted since at least 2017. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

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Generative AI: A paradigm shift in enterprise and startup opportunities

CIO Business Intelligence

How we got here The most notable enabling technologies in generative AI are deep learning, embeddings, transfer learning (all of which emerged in the early to mid-2000s), and neural net transformers (invented in 2017). The parameters of the neural net models are adjusted using the examples presented to the model in training.

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As funding and demand align, Nori CEO Paul Gambill is ready to grow his carbon removal startup

GeekWire

After two years of research and building connections around the globe, Gambill and his co-founders started Nori in the summer of 2017. Now that Apple has replaced the keyboards on all their laptops, I’ll probably switch to a new MacBook Pro 13″ Mobile devices: iPhone X. Your preferred social network? Nori Photo).

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