Day: September 3, 2017

AT&T Uverse Modems Found To Have Several Serious Security Vulnerabilities Published on September 03, 2017 at 04:34PM dustman81 writes: AT&T Uverse modems were found to have several serious vulnerabilities, including a superuser account with hardcoded username/password exposed to the internet via SSH, a HTTP server […]

The saga of keyboard and mouse support for the Xbox console series is one that’s been running for years, so take these new developments in that context, but Xbox Platform CVP Mike Ybarra has hinted that Xbox games with support for the classic PC peripherals […]

In terms of Alexa compatibility, Amazon’s virtual assistant isn’t built into the Clavinova smart pianos. Instead, you’re able to trigger different commands by plugging something like an an Echo Dot to them. The only caveat is that you’ll need to route that through a MusicCast-powered […]

Forget Wall Street – Silicon Valley is the new political power in Washington: It used to be banks, but now it is tech giants that dominate the US lobbying industry. http://ift.tt/2vV6d4h Submitted September 03, 2017 at 02:22PM by mvea via reddit http://ift.tt/2xGOTlN

Partenza alle ore 14 per il GP d'Italia, tredicesima prova del Mondiale F1 2017. Sono 53 giri di gara sul circuito di 5.793 metri che seguiremo dall'inizio alla fine con la nostra cronaca diretta, tramite il nostro canale Twitter specifico … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit […]

Goodhart’s Law, as phrased by Mary Strathern: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Honored more in the breach than the observance, alas. Our algorithmic world has turned so many measures into targets, and by doing so ruined them. […]

Google Conducted Hollywood ‘Interventions’ To Change Look of Computer Scientists Published on September 03, 2017 at 03:00PM theodp writes: Most TV computer scientists are still white men,” USA Today reports. “Google wants to change that. Google is calling on Hollywood to give equal screen time […]

The team is on the road with the IoT on Wheels design challenge, trying their best to make their smart bike, well, smarter. Using ST Microelectronics Nucleo hardware with Bluetooth Low Energy means the device can pair with other devices, such as an Android smartphone. […]

A sheen is starting to appear on Rocky Blumhagen’s forehead, just below his gray hair. He’s marching in place in a starkly lit room decked out with two large flatscreens. On both of the TVs, a volcano lets off steam through wide cracks glowing with […]