Month: September 2018
Amateur Cryptojackers and Apple Macs Emerge as Two Mining Malware Trends for 2018
2017 was a big year for cryptojacking. It increased by 8,500 percent, according to figures published by Symantec in March. And it would seem that 2018 has so far been an even bigger year for mining malware, as the Cyber...
Brexit: Afloat
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Indonesia earthquake: Dozens feared trapped under quake rubble
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRescuers have been digging by hand in the search for survivors Dozens of people are thought to be trapped under the rubble of buildings in the Indonesian city of Palu following an...
Trump’s ban on transgender troops finally turned gay-run TMZ against him
TMZ Logo Wikimedia Commons With his outsized character, sexual proclivities and financial scandals, Donald Trump is tailor made for gossip. In fact, no one knows that better than Trump himself. On the grounds that no publicity is bad publicity, Trump not...
Unbiased algorithms can still be problematic
Creating unbiased, accurate algorithms isn’t impossible — it’s just time consuming. “It actually is mathematically possible,” facial recognition startup Kairos CEO Brian Brackeen told me on a panel at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Algorithms are sets of rules that computers follow...
Kanye West delivered a pro-Trump rant on SNL. The audience booed, but he earned Trump’s praise.
There was a lot President Donald Trump didn’t like about this weekend’s Saturday Night Live premiere, including, presumably, Matt Damon’s screaming and crying Brett Kavanaugh impression and Kate McKinnon’s “Ruth Bader Gins-burns.” But there was one part he did enjoy,...
The White House is reportedly limiting the FBI’s Kavanaugh investigation. Trump says that’s not the case.
The FBI is reaching out to Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez about their allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But according to a pair of reports, the White House is limiting other parts...
Crypto Markets See Mix of Red and Green, With Half of Top 100 Coins Slightly Up
Sunday, September 30: crypto markets are seeing a mix of red and green today. A little more than half of the top 100 cryptocurrencies have grown in the 24 hours to press time. The daily trade volume has declined, seeing...
Hodler’s Digest, September 23-30: Walmart Embraces Blockchain, Google Does 180 On Crypto-Ad Ban
Coming every Sunday, the Hodler’s Digest will help you to track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions, and much more — a week on Cointelegraph...
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia spins comedic gold out of sexual harassment training
Every week, we pick a new episode of the week. It could be good. It could be bad. It will always be interesting. You can read the archives here. The episode of the week for September 23 through 29 is...
Bitcoin Price Makes Second Straight Monthly Loss in September
Bitcoin (BTC) is reporting losses for a second straight month, but there are hints of a bullish breakout ahead in the fourth quarter. At press time, the leading cryptocurrency is trading at $6,570 – down 6.30 percent from September's opening...
Launching a Website on the Bitcoin Cash Network Is Now a Reality
Technology & Security On September 29, Bitcoin Cash enthusiast Donald Mulders wrote an interesting post on the social media network Yours.org. The post detailed that he was attempting to host a website on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) chain using the...
Plantronics BackBeat FIT 2100 Review: Our Favorite Workout Headphones
In high school, my cross-country coach once counseled me to open my clenched fists. Stay relaxed, he said. The energy that you use to clench your fists is energy that you need for running. To this day, every time a...
China factory sector hurt in September as trade frictions bite
Growth in China's manufacturing sector sputtered in September as both external and domestic demand weakened, two surveys showed on Sunday, raising the pressure on policymakers as U.S. tariffs appear to be inflicting a heavier toll on the Chinese economy. A...
Mass burials as death toll from Indonesian disaster surges
The death toll in Indonesia's quake-tsunami disaster nearly doubled to more than 800 Sunday, as ill-equipped rescuers struggled to reach scores of trapped victims, health officials resorted to mass burials and desperate residents looted shops for food and water. "The...
Indonesia: Tsunami death toll tops 800 amid search for survivors
The death toll from an earthquake that prompted a tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has risen to 832, the national disaster mitigation agency has said, adding it assessed the affected area to be bigger than initially thought. Many...
Trans women are our sisters: the Anarchist Federation statement
This is a re-post from the Anarchist Federation website. At our national Federation Delegate Meeting in September, The Anarchist Federation agreed unanimously to sign a statement “It’s spelt Sisterhood not Cis-terhood” by the group Sister not Cister. The statement is...
Over 150 people at Listen Out caught with drugs, seven hospitalised
Posted September 30, 2018 18:24:14 Photo: Over 150 people were charged with drug possession at the Listen Out Festival over the weekend. (Facebook: Listen Out/Steve Wall) Police have arrested 159 people attending the Listen Out Festival in Sydney at the...
Elon Musk reaches deal over tweets about taking Tesla private
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWho is Elon Musk? Elon Musk must step down as Tesla chair and pay a fine after reaching a deal with US regulators over tweets he posted about taking the firm private....
Elon Musk will step down as Tesla chairman and pay a $20 million fine in SEC settlement
Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk will step down as chairman of the electric carmaker for at least three years as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over a security fraud charge stemming from a series...