Archive for the 'Technology' Category
GM Drops the Steering Wheel and Gives Robot Driver Control
January 12th, 2018Via: Bloomberg: Next year, General Motors Co. will no longer need an engineer in the front seat babysitting the robot brain that controls its self-driving Chevrolet Bolt. The steering wheel and pedals will be gone, giving total control to the machine. When GM starts testing its autonomous electric sedan in San Francisco ride-sharing fleets, it’ll […]
World’s Top-Ranked Crypto Exchange Adds 240,000 Users… In One Hour
January 11th, 2018Binance (Cryptogon Affiliate Link) Via: Bloomberg: The world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange keeps getting bigger. Hong Kong-based Binance.com is adding “a couple of million” registered users every week, with 240,000 people signing up in just an hour on Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer Zhao Changpeng said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. Demand is so high that […]
SOUTH KOREA PREPARING TO BAN ALL CRYPTOCURRENCY TRADING IN THE COUNTRY
January 10th, 2018Disclosure: I hold cryptocurrencies. — Via: CNBC: South Korea’s justice minister said on Thursday that a bill is being prepared to ban all cryptocurrency trading in the country. That news is a major development for the cryptocurrency space, as South Korea is one of the biggest markets for major coins like bitcoin and ethereum. According […]
WD My Cloud NAS Devices Have Hard-Wired Backdoor
January 8th, 2018Via: Register: If you have a Western Digital My Cloud network attached storage device, it’s time to learn how to update its OS because researcher James Bercegay has discovered a dozen models possess a hard-coded backdoor. The backdoor, detailed here, lets anyone log in as user mydlinkBRionyg with the password abc12345cba. WD mostly markets the […]
Intel’s 49-Qubit Chip Shoots for Quantum Supremacy
January 8th, 2018Disclosure: I am long Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL). Nothing that appears on Cryptogon should be considered a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. — Via: IEEE: Intel has passed a key milestone while running alongside Google and IBM in the marathon to build quantum computing systems. The tech giant has unveiled a […]
The More I Read About Meltdown And Spectre…
January 7th, 2018The more I wonder: Are these bugs, or features?
Breaking Bitcoin With a Quantum Computer
January 6th, 2018Disclosure: I am long Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL). Nothing that appears on Cryptogon should be considered a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. — For commentary on this, I’m going to share excerpts from an email that I wrote to friends of mine back in November: Hi, *** *** asked me to […]
Why Raspberry Pi Isn’t Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown
January 6th, 2018Via: Raspberry Pi: Over the last couple of days, there has been a lot of discussion about a pair of security vulnerabilities nicknamed Spectre and Meltdown. These affect all modern Intel processors, and (in the case of Spectre) many AMD processors and ARM cores. Spectre allows an attacker to bypass software checks to read data […]
U.S. Government Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Computers Up Sharply
January 6th, 2018Via: cnet: US Customs and Border Patrol searched more phones and laptops at the border in 2017 — 30,200 devices total. The agency released those numbers Friday along with updated guidelines on how to conduct the searches, which have become a hot button issue under the administration of President Donald Trump. A lawsuit from the […]
Security Flaws Put Virtually All Phones, Computers at Risk
January 3rd, 2018Update: Security Flaws Put Virtually All Phones, Computers at Risk Update: All Macs, iPhones and iPads Affected Via: The Verge: Apple confirmed on Thursday that all Mac and iOS devices are affected by the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws that have roiled the computing industry for the past 24 hours, resulting in a race to […]
