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Pixel throws hat into smartphone ring

By The Editors / October 7, 2016

Tags: banking automation, ICAAN, smartphones

The Google Pixel explodes onto the phone circuit, customer dissatisfaction with the iPhone explodes into a lawsuit and the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 just continues to explode. All this, Twitter trouble, ownership, robot children and industry sexism grace our tech lineup this week.

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An Internet bot, also known as web robot, WWW robot or simply bot, is a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone. The largest use of bots is in web spidering, in which an automated script fetches, analyses and files information from web servers at many times the speed of a human. Each server can have a file called robots.txt, containing rules for the spidering of that server that the bot is supposed to obey or be removed.Another, more malicious use of bots is the coordination and operation of an automated attack on networked computers, such as a denial-of-service attack by a botnet. Internet bots can also be used to commit click fraud and more recently have seen usage around MMORPG games as computer game bots. A spambot is an internet bot that attempts to spam large amounts of content on the Internet, usually adding advertising links.

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Rampaging webcams take over Internet

By The Editors / September 30, 2016

Tags: AI, botnet

Webcams take over the Internet, Blackberry outsources phone manufacturing and a small green frog becomes a target of hatred. Oh, and AI companies begin determining how to stop AI from taking over the world. What could possibly go wrong?

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U.S. publishes self-driving car guidelines

By The Editors / September 23, 2016

Tags: driverless cars, robots

This week saw the U.S. government thinking hard about self-driving cars, and the British thinking hard about robot ethics. It saw radio waves that know how you feel, and Silicon Valley tech firms that don’t seem to care. Read all about it in our tech roundup.

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Alleged DDoS-for-hire masterminds busted

By The Editors / September 16, 2016

Tags: vDOS

HP exits one business, losing billions, and enters another, spending billions. Samsung’s phones continue exploding. Facebook finds the courage to apologize for bizarre censorship, and Apple finds the courage to annoy thousands of users. It’s just another week in IT.

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Talking shop (and SOC) with Zayo’s VP of Managed Cyber Security

By The Editors / September 12, 2016

Tags: GSOC, MSSP

We talk to Mike Vamvakaris about the current threat landscape, how it’s evolving and why Zayo is launching a Global Security Operations Center.

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Satellite connectivity ambitions go up in smoke

By The Editors / September 2, 2016

Tags: hackers, satellites, smartphones

It’s been an incendiary week in IT, and in some cases we mean that literally. Fires of all kinds are raging at Facebook, Apple, Dropbox and Samsung. Read all about it in our tech roundup.

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A roller coaster of a week for IT security

By The Editors / August 26, 2016

Tags: Citizen Lab, NSO Group

Ashley Madison cheats at security, WhatsApp backtracks on privacy promises, tech firms vow to stamp out robocallers and a secret iPhone vuln surfaces. It’s all in this week’s tech roundup.

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Snowden fingers Russia for NSA hack

By The Editors / August 19, 2016

Tags: Fuschia, Locky, Shadow Brokers

The U.S. government’s electronic spy agency lost some secret files and Google puts its own online. China is putting quantum physics up in space, and Uber wants to put drivers out of work. And this week’s dingbat of the week is a doozie.

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Airline in hot seat after IT systems grounded

By The Editors / August 12, 2016

Tags: messenger bot, QuadRooter

Delta’s IT makes a crash landing, phones and cars are all apparently broken and journalists are misusing hookup apps. But it’s all going to be OK, because Obama now has a Facebook chatbot. Read all about it in this week’s tech roundup.

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Bitcoin belly flops as Bitfinex braves burgalry

By The Editors / August 5, 2016

Tags: Bitfinex, Black Hat, Rocket Kitten

It’s been a hacky kind of a week in tech. Bitcoins were stolen, and allegedly Yahoo accounts too. Cars were controlled by people who weren’t driving them, and government spooks used trawled messaging networks. Read on to find out why you should be paranoid.

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Verizon snaps up Yahoo for a bargain

By The Editors / July 29, 2016

Tags: IsoHunt, Wikileaks

This week saw wireless hackery, Pokemon idiocy, a new $9B pantomime horse, and just outright pantomime. Read all about it in our tech roundup.

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SoftBank snarfs ARM in US$32B deal

By The Editors / July 22, 2016

Tags: ARM, Elon Musk, Softbank

One acquisition, one world domination plan, one alleged cybercriminal and one premium-grade dingbat. We’ve got them all in our tech roundup this week.

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EU to Google: ‘Hands off our ads’

By The Editors / July 15, 2016

Tags: antitrust, bitcoin, Pokemon Go

Battles between governments and search engines, secret phone-control messages in your radio programme and rampaging robots. It may be the summer season, but that’s no reason for the tech world to take a holiday.

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(Pass)thoughts on the evolution of passwords

By The Editors / July 8, 2016

Tags: passwords, Tesla, Twist BioScience

Battling companies, DNA video storage, telepathic logins and arrogant CEOs, all in seven days. Tech never gets boring, does it? Read what happened in the industry in our weekly roundup.

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Doh! DAO downed by debilitating defect

By The Editors / June 24, 2016

Tags: AI, cryptocurrency, DAO

Smart contracts that aren’t looking so smart, AI we don’t want to see come to life and ghosting gone digital. Read all about it in our weekly tech roundup.

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Why did Microsoft pay top dollar for LinkedIn?

By The Editors / June 17, 2016

Tags: Guccifer 2.0, Score Assured

Microsoft buys LinkedIn, Facebook prepares to kill the written word and hackers find Donald Trump’s darkest secrets. Read all about it in this week’s tech roundup.

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Flying drones to invade Nevada

By The Editors / June 10, 2016

Tags: artificial intelligence, drones, EHang

Cars that need rebooting, artificial intelligence with a built-in reset switch, and the most anti-social technology we’ve ever heard of. Come and read about the latest wild week in tech.

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Smartphone market is cooling, says net guru

By The Editors / June 3, 2016

Tags: smartphones

The smartphone market is saturated, which is creating a big problem for the Internet’s big brands. Read about that, and some other crazy stories from the weird world of tech, in this week’s roundup.

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Microsoft hangs up on phone business

By The Editors / May 27, 2016

Tags: ransomware, robocop

The software giant throws in the towel on smartphone hardware, nuclear weapons systems get an upgrade — from the 1970s — and robotic security guards patrol malls. This was one of technology’s weirder weeks. Read all about it in our tech roundup.

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Zayo connects with customers at Cisco Connect

By The Editors / May 24, 2016

Tags: Cisco Connect 2016, Zayo HCS

More than 1,500 IT pros made their way to the Toronto Congress Centre last week for Cisco Connect — Cisco Canada’s flagship ICT event that offers in-depth education and training sessions, insight into the latest technologies and industry networking opportunities.

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Tech turns the creepy dial to 11

By The Editors / May 20, 2016

Tags: privacy, wearable tech

This week in tech saw a distinctly creepy set of news stories. From messaging apps that talk on your behalf through to the Internet of Stings, it’s all in our tech roundup this week.

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A censorious seven days in IT

By The Editors / May 13, 2016

Tags: email policy, SDSec

Everyone seems to want to hide or ban something this week. Read on for three examples from the news in our weekly roundup of the most interesting stories in IT.

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Allstream scoops up prestigious partner award

By The Editors / May 9, 2016

Tags: awards, MiCloud

Mitel honoured its top-performing channel partners at a recent awards gala, naming Allstream its Canadian partner of the year. That partnership continues to grow, as Allstream is the first to bring MiCloud — a cloud-based collaboration solution — to the Canadian mid-market.

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Satoshi Nakamot-oh-no he isn’t

By The Editors / May 6, 2016

Tags: big data, bitcoin, quantum computing

Those unable to decide if the self-proclaimed inventor of bitcoin is legit might need IBM’s quantum computer. Google has been quietly slurping up U.K. patient data, and a Finnish schoolkid collected a cool $10K. It’s all happening in our tech roundup this week.

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Misconfigured database breaches most of Mexico

By The Editors / April 29, 2016

Tags: data breach, Windows 10

Windows rains all over the TV and MongoDB gives up millions of personal details. What a weird, whacky world it’s been in tech this week.

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