The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Adobe will stop supporting Flash on December 31st, 2020, and it will block Flash content from running on January 12th, 2021. An open-source emulator called Ruffle will enable old Flash files through a desktop app or web browser. The Internet Archive is using Ruffle to preserve over 1,000 games and animations on its site.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The 2020 presidential election was always going to be a pivotal moment for our country. In the four years since, tech companies and their leaders have pledged to be better prepared in 2020, and to prevent their platforms and tools from being used to mess with our democracy. Tara Jacoby for Vox. But that’s a daunting task.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 30, 2020

In February 2020, UK security researchers discovered a vulnerability in free, open source, automation servers that would allow cybercriminals to amplify a Distributed Denial of Service attack by 100. As of August 2019, there were 630,000 Internet accessible IoT devices with the WS-DD protocol enabled.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As the sophistication of the modern supply chain advances, and as the sector becomes more reliant on smart technologies and Internet of Things (IoT) processes, the attack surface expands. Food and agriculture is one of many critical infrastructure sectors that is increasingly being targeted with ransomware attacks.

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Vox

DECEMBER 23, 2020

There were more searches for terms like “misinformation” and “disinformation” in 2020 than in years past. It was hard to avoid misinformation online in 2020. A pandemic and a polarized presidential election had the internet swirling with everything from false cures for Covid-19 to misleading claims of election fraud.

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The Verge

MARCH 19, 2021

“I often just hunt for interesting GitLab instances, mostly with just simple Google dorks, when I’m bored, and I keep being amazed by how little thought seems to go into the security settings,” Kottmann told ZDNet in May 2020. These logins allowed the hackers to look through the live feeds of more than 150,000 internet-connected cameras.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2023

Truveta Image) Truveta’s specialized training on medical datasets goes beyond GPT-4, which was trained on a broad range of open information on the internet, said Myerson. Truveta Image) The Truveta Language Model was built and trained over more than two years, beginning with an open-source option, a common starting point.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 10, 2020

As the FBI puts it: "As of May 2019, an open source report indicated 71 percent of Windows devices used in healthcare organizations ran an operating system that became unsupported in January 2020. What else is reaching End of Life in 2020? Windows 7 'End of Life' is a cybercrime opportunity.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. We can't just, you know, bust things up into small parts and say this is my world because again, internet is a pen test and we're all in this together. I am wondering if is personal information or is it source code?

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Vox

APRIL 14, 2021

billion in revenue up until the end of 2020, with most of those funds coming from transaction fees. What Netscape did for the internet in 1995 is what Coinbase will do for crypto and blockchain in 2021,” Roger Lee, a general partner at the investment firm Battery Ventures, which has invested in Coinbase, told Protocol last week.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 21, 2017

By 2020 major international cities will have car-free downtowns. Trend #2—Internet of Things (IoT). Prediction: Internet of Things will move off the hype list and become a dominant technology in 2017. Adoption of IoT devices will exceed predictions, reaching 50 billion devices by 2020. Trend #3—Artificial Intelligence.

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Cloud Musings

MARCH 30, 2015

by Melvin Greer Managing Director Greer Institute for Leadership and Innovation The adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) appears to be unquestioned. Gartner says the IoT market will be $300 million in 2020. Advances in wearables and sensors are strategic to tech companies, telecoms and manufacturers across multiple domains.

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The Verge

APRIL 27, 2021

In part, this is because Clearview AI probably already has a picture of you in its databases, scraped from public sources long ago. As the company’s CEO Hoan Ton-That said in an interview with The New York Times last year: “There are billions of unmodified photos on the internet, all on different domain names.

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Galido

JULY 17, 2018

Third-party HTML5 video players—both proprietary and open-source—provide a consistent interface across different browsers and a slew of extra features that would be difficult to implement without expert coding knowledge. Previously on the Internet, before HTML5, Adobe’s Flash was used for animations and videos.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Open the app, there are profiles pushing doubt about the 2020 election’s results and declarations that the mainstream tech platforms are targeting free speech. In the final days of the 2020 election, Parler’s popularity exploded. pic.twitter.com/pzUFvhipBZ — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 25, 2020. Currently, Parler is No.

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Vox

JANUARY 7, 2021

Others claim that stricter moderation amounts to censorship and pushes users to darker corners of the internet. You may have heard more about Parler in the runup to the 2020 election when conservatives touted it as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook. In the final days of the 2020 election, Parler’s popularity exploded.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It builds on a feature Google piloted in California in 2019 and expanded to the rest of the US in 2020. It can only be updated when the user is connected to the internet, which poses problems when wildfires take out power lines and cell towers. It uses an open-source algorithm, and Plus Codes are accessible offline.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 7, 2020

We often hear that the internet is a product of standards, and while that's true, it also only exists because people strung cable, wrote code, created rules, built organizations, and formed alliances. SSI has similar needs and meeting them won't happen just because we define nice protocols and write some open source code.

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Vox

JANUARY 20, 2021

The baseless claim is a fixture of the right-wing QAnon conspiracy theory movement, and its most recent iteration saw QAnon adherents citing the timing of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s posts to the internet as “evidence” that some significant event was coming, calling it #pompeocountdown. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Parler , the right wing’s social media alternative, was also booted from the internet; Google and Apple banned it from its app stores and Amazon Web Services stopped hosting the app on its servers. Signal’s software is open sourced, so others can download or copy it. What makes Signal different?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

You’ve probably been caught off guard by videos that play automatically on Facebook, Twitter, or just across the internet in general. Update September 4th, 2020 5:11PM ET: This article was originally published on March 15th, 2019. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Using Microsoft Edge.

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Phil Windley

JULY 26, 2021

Picos are hosted on the open-source pico engine. Picos provide a cloud-native (internet-first) architecture that matches the application architecture to cloud model. And a bonus reason for using picos: Picos provide a better model for building the Internet of Things. Picos use a substitutable hosting model.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Welcome to Technology Short Take #123, the first of 2020! I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season, but now it’s time to jump back into the fray with a collection of technical articles from around the Internet. Here’s hoping that I found something useful for you! Networking. Time to get patching, folks!

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The Verge

JANUARY 24, 2022

By the end of 2020, it would be worth more than $400,000, rising briefly to over $3 million. You can store your key in a software wallet on an exchange service’s server or in a software wallet on your own computer or mobile phone — but those are vulnerable to remote attack if anyone on the internet is able to get your key.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The broadening global use of the Internet and the connectivity the Internet affords have combined to deliver data in volumes that have never been experienced before. One of the key drivers in sustained growth of AI is the rapidly increasing availability of data. The mostimportant of these algorithm categories include: Crunchers.

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Kitaboo

JULY 9, 2020

Search the Internet and you will find a plethora of interactive online platforms , the trick is to find the one that best suits your needs. Moodle: This free and open-source learning management system offers robust functionalities that make it a great option for educational institutions. Digital Publishing / January 30, 2020.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

At FuzzCon 2020, Mike Walker, Sr. ” Historically technical teams, including the ForAllSecure Mayhem R&D team, have made tremendous strides to increase the ease-of-use and accessibility through the open source of fuzz testing technology. This has been the case for the last decade.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

But after the site got knocked off the internet over the weekend, it’s more apparent than ever how even fringe services must rely on mainstream technology providers. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. All Open Sourced content is editorially independent and produced by our journalists.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

President Donald Trump throws hats to supporters during a Make America Great Again rally at Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport on November 2, 2020, in Avoca, Pennsylvania. The homepage of YouTube is some of the most valuable real estate on the internet,” Wilson, the Republican technologist, said.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Russian government hackers have targeted 200 organizations tied to the 2020 presidential election in recent weeks, according to Microsoft’s threat intelligence team. Internet users in China are repurposing the open source software site to save news articles, medical journals, and personal accounts censored by the Chinese government. (Yi-Ling

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Vox

JANUARY 6, 2022

The complaint also lists videos of the riot posted on Messer’s YouTube channel, Messer’s YouTube searches, internet searches, and emails from his Gmail account — all used to help build a case against him. Messer was arrested in late July. He has pleaded not guilty to charges including trespassing and violent entry on Capitol grounds.

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Vox

MARCH 26, 2021

Julie Owono, also an oversight board member and executive director of the organization Internet Sans Frontières , pointed to a recent case the board considered regarding an automated flagging system that wrongly removed a post in support of breast cancer awareness for violating Facebook’s rules about nudity.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

For the 2020 United States presidential election page , as well as the pages for presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris , only editors whose accounts are at least 30 days old and who have made at least 500 edits can change the article. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2022

Two years ago, on the floor of CES 2020, there was a lot of buzz about a chip — not the latest AMD or Intel announcement, but a new alliance of major tech companies that called itself Project Connected Home over IP, or CHIP for short. . | Screenshot by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy. With Matter, it’ll be one and done. Now make it happen.

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Galido

MARCH 28, 2020

The smart TV experience is becoming big in 2020! Simply put, it’s a free, open-source media player that got released way back in 2002 as the Xbox Media Center (XMBC), which as Xbox application. Spilling additional items like these just total connects to recordings on gushing sites everywhere throughout the Internet.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

But other people had been issuing this “challenge” all over Facebook in 2020, according to a search I did — here’s a post from one user last October. Drop a pic 30 and up,” along with a link to his Instagram. More than 61 million people saw it, and 5 million replied. Here’s another one from March.

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Vox

JUNE 25, 2020

The internet trust tool NewsGuard reports that Natural News “severely violates basic standards of credibility and transparency.” During the first three months of 2020, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue reports, there were 18,000 links to Natural News-affiliated sites in public Facebook pages and groups.

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