Google is revealing anonymized location data on the movements of people in 131 countries as a guide for public health officials during the coronavirus pandemic. The reports, available in PDF format, show how visits to broad categories of places—such as retail and leisure establishment, grocery […]
Day: April 3, 2020
Google rolls back SameSite cookie changes to keep essential online services from breaking
Google today announced that it will temporarily roll back the changes it recently made to how its Chrome browser handles cookies in order to ensure that sites that perform essential services like banking, online grocery, government services and healthcare won’t become inaccessible to Chrome users […]
How to keep your business secure with remote workers
In the wake of the unprecedented pandemic, many companies are mandating social distancing through remote work and are striving to ensure business as usual across their operations to minimise impact on their employees and customers. This new way of working highlights the importance of implementing […]
Bitcoin Price Analysis: Bitcoin broke 7K and just gave back all of the gains
Bitcoin now only trades 1% higher after spiking through 7K earlier on in the session. The price could now move back below the pivotal 6650.00 level. social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Sleep apnea retrofit designed by doctors and engineers could help address ventilator shortage
The FDA has been working to adapt its policies and restrictions to respond to the growing need for unconventional solutions like shortages of medical equipment needed for treating COVID-19 patients. A group of doctors, engineers and medical researchers from UC Berkeley, UCSF and working hospitals […]
Foreigners Self-Isolating in Croatia: Do You Feel Safer? Rene from Holland in Zumberak
April 2, 2020 – Do foreigners in Croatia feel more or less safe sitting out COVID-19 … USA, Ireland, UK, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Singapore, Canada and Germany. … All my photo tours are cancelled and so is the accommodation. … Everybody was wearing mouth caps […]
So Wait, How Encrypted Are Zoom Meetings Really?
An analysis of Zoom’s encryption scheme, published on Friday by Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, shows that Zoom does generate and hold all keys itself on key management systems. The report notes that most of Zoom’s developers are based in China, and that […]
OctoML raises $15M to make optimizing ML models easier
OctoML, a startup founded by the team behind the Apache TVM machine learning compiler stack project, today announced it has raised a $15 million Series A round led by Amplify, with participation from Madrone Ventures, which led its $3.9 million seed round. The core idea […]
Former FCSO lieutenant arrested, accused of accepting bribes from gambling organization …
“Between April 2017 and March 2020, Special Agents with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) conducted an investigation …
2 Fox News regulars are finalists for Pentagon policy chief Google Miscellanea
Macgregor and Tata did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for the National Security Council also did not respond to a query from POLITICO. Defense Secretary Mark Esper has expressed reservations about Macgregor, who is a lightning rod in military circles, according to […]