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Duke Brings Fact Checking to Alexa

The Duke Reporters’ Lab, a journalism-centric arm of Duke University, has unveiled a new political fact-checking app for Alexa Voice-enabled devices—including the Echo, Echo Dot and Amazon Tap—giving device owners the ability to fact-check politicians in real time. A spin-off of the Lab’s Share the Facts fact-checking project, the app is available in the Skills

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Dyn DDoS attack: How hackers may have hijacked your PVR to cripple the internet

The massive cyberattack that resulted in widespread outages for some of the world’s most popular websites Friday was carried out using a network of hacked “Internet of Things” devices, such as webcams and digital recorders.That’s right, your PVR may have played a part in a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and you would have had

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