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Engadget[^]:

The surging price of bitcoin (among others) in 2017 led more than a few companies to hop on the cryptocurrency bandwagon with hopes of striking it rich almost overnight.

Engadget[^]:

Despite the hype and hoopla surrounding the burgeoning field of quantum computing, the technology is still in its infancy.

Security Ledger[^]:

Consumer advocates and proponents of right to repair laws in 17 states have a new enemy to worry about. The Security Innovation Center, with backing of powerful tech industry groups, is arguing that letting consumers fix their own devices will empower hackers.

Scott Berkun[^]:

A good boss does more than just set goals and give assignments: they should see themselves as responsible for ensuring good work happens.

Infosecurity[^]:

More than 40% of global log-in attempts are malicious thanks to bot-driven credential stuffing attacks, according to the latest report from Akamai.

Infoworld[^]:

The multiplatform package manager builds and shares native binaries

Enterprise.nxt[^]:

By now, we were supposed to be living in a futuristic setting with skyscrapers, personal helicopters, and of course, jetpacks. What’s the holdup? Hint: It’s not the technology.

Motherboard[^]:

Jonathan Laney, a serial startup founder, wants space travel to be even cheaper, reducing the costs of a launch from tens of millions of dollars to under $500,000. His plan? Use a giant centrifuge to sling cargo and rockets into orbit.

The Verge[^]:

The database has over 500 million passwords that have been compiled from previous breaches

IEEE[^]:

Go back to 1974 and the dawn of home computing with this Arduino-based kit

Techcrunch[^]:

Craftsmanship is an activity that doesn’t just provide us with satisfaction, but also makes us fundamentally human by enchanting us with the world right around us.

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Until now, Apple has stored the codes only in the U.S. for all global users, the company said, in keeping with its emphasis on customer privacy and security.

While Apple says it will ensure that the keys are protected in China, some privacy experts and former Apple security employees worry that moving the keys to China makes them more vulnerable to seizure by a government with a record of censorship and political suppression.

“Once the keys are there, they can’t necessarily pull out and take those keys because the server could be seized by the Chinese government,” said Matthew Green, a professor of cryptography at Johns Hopkins University. Ultimately, he says, “It means that Apple can’t say no.”

TechXPlore[^]:

Mathematicians at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new approach to machine learning aimed at experimental imaging data. Rather than relying on the tens or hundreds of thousands of images used by typical machine learning methods, this new approach "learns" much more quickly and requires far fewer images.