Home» Arts & Leisure » Arts Saturday, 22 October 2016 16:06 Posted by Ali Ahmed The world of internet was under attack on Friday after hackers were able to cripple major internet service including Twitter, Spotify and Amazon, is believed is believed to have been orchestrated using common home devices like webcams and digital recorders. …
On Friday morning, I awoke to find that our company-wide single sign-on and cloud storage was disrupted due to the massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against domain host Dyn. This attack was big, disrupting consumer services like Spotify and Netflix, all the way to enterprise-grade providers like Heroku and Zendesk. Once the dust …
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Apple is the most successful company in the world. But future success for Apple depends to a surprising degree on artificial intelligence. When you think of Silicon Valley’s AI leaders, Apple may not immediately come to mind. But the company’s initiatives around AI are “amazing.” At least that’s what the company’s newest senior employee said. …
SAN FRANCISCO – Hackers used internet-connected home devices, such as CCTV cameras and printers, to attack popular websites on Friday, security analysts say. Twitter, Spotify, and Reddit were among the sites taken offline on Friday. Each uses a company called Dyn, which was the target of the attack, to direct users to its website. Security …
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Hackers used internet-connected home devices, such as CCTV cameras and printers, to attack popular websites on Friday, security analysts say. Twitter, Spotify, and Reddit were among the sites taken offline on Friday. Each uses a company called Dyn, which was the target of the attack, to direct users to its website. Security analysts now believe …
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Amazon plunged into the crowded field of music-streaming with its own service, rivaling Spotify and Apple. Bloomberg’s Spencer Soper reports on “Bloomberg Technology.”(Photo: Bloomberg/YoutubeScreenshot/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf39Z_ht09I) Amazon, an electronic commerce company, is launching a paid streaming music service known as Amazon Music Unlimited. Advertisement The music service is created to contend against other familiar music services, including …
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“Alexa, what is love?” “Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more” Ok, getting Alexa to finish song lyrics might not be the primary purpose of the Dot, but to be honest I’m already talking to her much more than I do to Siri – which I have on me at all times of …
In my last post I discussed Freeboard, a powerful, polished, open source Web dashboard and mentioned that Bug Labs, the creators of Freeboard, also offer a very interesting Internet of Things messaging service called dweet which we’ll look at today. Now, there are many messaging services (for example MQTT) that can be used by IoT …
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Twitter was unavailable for much of Friday after a massive attack on the underpinnings of the Internet. (Leon Neal/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) As users of Twitter and many other services probably know, large parts of the Internet weren’t working Friday, thanks to a hacking attack on the Internet’s infrastructure. NBC reported that a senior intelligence …
Enlarge Image An audio-visual example of generated scenes with Joey saying new sentences. Video screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET How YOU doin’? If you’re a fan of the show “Friends,” you might be doin’ better after hearing this news. Researchers have “virtually immortalized” Joey Tribbiani from the long-running sitcom with a talking avatar that says the …
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