Twitter admits 'massive' outage as woes continue
Twitter on Monday suffered a brief but unprecedented outage with users worldwide reporting they could no longer read links to articles from outside websites.
Mar 6, 2023
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With Twitter in chaos, some ways to protect your account
Twitter is in chaos. Elon Musk, its new owner, has decimated its staff and this week gave those remaining an ultimatum—work grueling hours and be "extremely hardcore " or leave. Hundreds chose the latter and headed for ...
Nov 18, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Finding COVID-19 fake news with a computer chatbot
The COVID-19 pandemic has been marked by ever-present fake news surrounding the behavior and effects of the coronavirus, the impact of social distancing, lockdowns, and quarantine, and the medical response in terms of vaccinations ...
Oct 26, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Students help NASA find landslides by training computers to read Reddit
University of British Columbia graduate students have trained computers to "read" news articles about landslides on Reddit to bolster a NASA database, which could improve predictions of when and where these natural disasters ...
Oct 6, 2022
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Security
Australian police probe purported hacker's ransom demand
Australian police were investigating a purported hacker's release of the stolen personal data of 10,000 customers of the nation's second-largest wireless carrier and demand for a $1 million ransom in cryptocurrency, the company's ...
Sep 27, 2022
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Software
Off-the-shelf crypto-detectors give a false sense of data security
The security of data relies on the use of proper, well-executed cryptography—the science and art of constructing algorithms that make information safe from prying and possibly malicious eyes.
Sep 14, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Deciding whether to install solar panels on your home? New NIST web tool can help
Whether it's to live more sustainably, save money or both, many people think about adding solar panels to their homes. Homeowners consider a number of factors, including which type of solar panel might work best for them, ...
Sep 1, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Better managing fluctuating supply and demand creates a starring role for renewables
An advanced energy "aggregator" that flexibly creates virtual power plants from distributed energy resources and storage systems on fast and slow timescales paves the way to an energy system based entirely on renewables.
Aug 22, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Deepfakes expose vulnerabilities in certain facial recognition technology
Mobile devices use facial recognition technology to help users quickly and securely unlock their phones, make a financial transaction or access medical records. But facial recognition technologies that employ a specific user-detection ...
Aug 12, 2022
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Internet
A model for the automatic extraction of content from webs and apps
Content management systems or CMSs are the most popular tool for creating content on the internet. In recent years, they have evolved to become the backbone of an increasingly complex ecosystem of websites, mobile apps and ...
Jun 17, 2022
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