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Technology News
1. PewDiePie got red pilled many months ago & the mainstream entertainment industry is now canning him.
- Felix has created a following by being provocative and irreverent he clearly went too far in this case and the resulting videos are inappropriate a Maker Studios spokeswoman said in a statement on Monday.
- With million subscribers Kjellberg has amassed one of the largest audiences on YouTube by posting clips of himself playing and talking about video games accompanied by humorous commentary.
- The Walt Disney Company zealously defends its brand it decided not to bid for Twitter last year in part because it was concerned with trolls on that social network but this is not the first time that the entertainment conglomerate has had trouble from units.
- Open Whisper SystemsBut anyone testing the beta who links their iPhone to iCloud and wants the same level of privacy Signal has always offered should consider an extra step too Disabling a setting that uploads a metadata to Apple.
- He suggests that the app could mere display in the call log to protect identities or Signal may walk users through its settings when once installed to help people choose their privacy preferences.
- In the new version voice and video calling will drop those word pairs and instead use the same authentication system as its text messaging feature which depends instead on simply warning users if their encryption key has suspiciously changed.
- But the most important module from an perspective is the one that allows the operator s to exfiltrate iPhone backups stored on a compromised Mac.
- Our past analysis of samples known to be linked to group shows a number of similarities between the Xagent component for and the Mac OS binary that currently forms the object of our investigation.
- We conclude this brief teaser with the assertion that the Komplex component discovered in September has been exclusively used as a downloader and installer for the Xagent binary.
- That fall weekend Mike showed Evan Services Virtual Analyst a fancy name for a chatbot capable of fielding basic queries through the keyboard.
- Spisak hooked Havyn up to IBM BigFix and endpoint security manager that can ascertain not just what cyberthreats exist but whether any directly impact a given system.
- are things analysts could be doing on their own but it takes them five or eight minutes says Justin Grant director of strategy for IBM Managed Security Services whose teams are running the Havyn beta.
- Dan Rose VP of Partnerships announced the new app at the Code Media conference at the in Dana Point Calif.
- A box app should give Facebook and its partners more opportunities to turn video views into ad dollars.
- The Wall Street Journal reported in late January that Facebook was building an app for boxes.
- ET SoftBank Group agreed to buy asset manager Fortress Investment Group LLC for billion in a surprising move that is part of an effort by the Japanese technology giant to transform itself into one of the largest investment firms.
- Fortress Class A stockholders are to get a share the companies announced late Tuesday after The Wall Street Journal reported on the deal.
- That is above the closing price Monday.
- On Monday evening Disney announced it was severing ties with PewDiePie and now The Verge can report that YouTube is also cutting its business relationship with its most famous face.
- But YouTube did remove ads from the videos that set off this uproar and will no doubt be keeping a close eye on whatever their provocative poster boy uploads in the near future.
- The turn of events could prove a setback for subscription service YouTube Red which was heavily marketed in conjunction with PewDiePie.
- ET SoftBank Group agreed to buy asset manager Fortress Investment Group LLC for billion in a surprising move that is part of an effort by the Japanese technology giant to transform itself into one of the largest investment firms.
- Fortress Class A stockholders are to get a share the companies announced late Tuesday after The Wall Street Journal reported on the deal.
- That is above the closing price Monday.
- The idea here is to allow developers to take all of the knowledge they built in writing applications and allow them to take that to a new database service that still uses the SQL syntax and offers ACID transactions something you want for your point of sales system if you are a retailer for example but also offers many of the advantages of modern NoSQL databases combined with the kind of scalability and global network that Google itself needs to run its products.
- She also noted that while there is no theoretical limit as to how big a Cloud Spanner database can be and she also stressed that no reason you use it for smaller projects as well the main advantage here necessarily scalability but also the ability to do global transactions.
- Google also promises percent uptimes for Cloud Spanner and the project will launch with client libraries for languages like Java Go Python and.
- Smith outlined his proposal during keynote remarks at this week RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco following a presidential election marred by the hacking and disclosure of Democratic Party emails that intelligence agencies concluded were carried out by Russia in order to help Republican Donald Trump win.
- Smith likened such an organization which would include technical experts from governments and the private sector to the International Atomic Energy Agency a watchdog based at the United Nations that works to deter the use of nuclear weapons.
- Smith also said the technology sector needed to work collectively and neutrally to protect internet users around the world from cyber attacks including a pledge not to aid governments in offensive activity and the adoption of a coordinated disclosure process for software and hardware vulnerabilities.
