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Mega-Popular Muslim Prayer Apps Were Secretly Harvesting Phone Numbers

Gizmodo

Google recently booted over a dozen apps from its Play Store—among them Muslim prayer apps with 10 million-plus downloads, a barcode scanner, and a clock—after researchers discovered secret data-harvesting code hidden within them. Creepier still, the clandestine code was engineered by a company linked to a Virginia… Read more.

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

A long-time Googler, who’s role as engineering director saw her lead the Google Play developer ecosystem, Nikolic was keen for something new that offered a greater sense of social purpose. “ Horizontal team members own the platforms to ensure their robustness, reliability, latency and scalability so engineers can be productive.

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ID Card Maker

Galido

With integrated membership management, webcam capture, and barcode support, you can manage records and issue cards simply for low cost and with only a few clicks. Multi-layer card designer allows you to insert templates images, texts, 1D barcodes, 2D barcodes, vector shapes, and logos and custom arrange them to your liking.

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Destination Spokane: How remote work and new arrivals are changing one tech community

GeekWire

Some Spokane startup leaders say it’s especially difficult to compete for specialized talent like cloud and AI engineers who are critical to many of today’s tech innovations. Startup entrepreneur and software engineer Mark Harrell and his family moved to Spokane from Austin about a year-and-a half ago.

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The heartbeat of online retail: Exploring fulfilment centres

Dataconomy

Fulfilment centres are the engines that drive the thriving vehicle of online retail. From barcode scanners to conveyor belts, from automated sorting systems to AI-driven inventory management, technology streamlines operations, minimises errors, and accelerates the processing of orders.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

Since then Hash started a reverse engineering wiki site called Recessim and created dozens of YouTube videos in a channel of that same name to chronicle his adventures. And in this episode, I'm going to be discussing the world of reverse engineering hardware. Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all secure.

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The Future is Here and It Is Wireless

CIO Business Intelligence

That data needs to be sent to processing engines that can use the data to make split second decisions. Once you access that ticket from your email or a wallet app, you’ll place the barcode or QR code on a scanner at the turnstile.