Tell Us Your Best Story About Exploding Technology

Earlier today, Samsung delayed shipments
of its Galaxy Note 7
, allegedly due to (unconfirmed) reports that the phone had been exploding when charging. One of the instances was possibly due to charging the device with a cheap USB-C cable, which can wreck havoc on your electronics.

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Source: Gizmodo – Tell Us Your Best Story About Exploding Technology

Staff Breach At OneLogin Exposes Password Storage Feature

River Tam quotes a report from CSO Australia: Enterprise access management firm OneLogin has suffered an embarrassing breach tied to a single employee’s credentials being compromised. OneLogin on Tuesday revealed the breach affected a feature called Secure Notes that allowed its users to “store information.” That feature however is pitched to users as a secure way to digitally jot down credentials for access to corporate firewalls and keys to software product licenses. The firm is concerned Secure Notes was exposed to a hacker for at least one month, though it may have been from as early as July 2 through to August 25, according to a post by the firm. Normally these notes should have been encrypted using “multiple levels of AES-256 encryption,” it said in a blog post. Several thousand enterprise customers, including high profile tech startups, use OneLogin for single sign-on to access enterprise cloud applications. The company has championed the SAML standard for single sign-on and promises customers an easy way to enable multi-factor authentication from devices to cloud applications. But it appears the company wasn’t using multi-factor authentication for its own systems. OneLogin’s CISO Alvaro Hoyos said a bug in its software caused Secure Notes to be “visible in our logging system prior to being encrypted and stored in our database.” The firm later found out that an employees compromised credentials were used to access this logging system. The company has since fixed the bug on the same day it detected the bug. CSO adds that the firm “also implemented SAML-based authentication for its log management system and restricted access to a limited set of IP addresses.”

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AT&T Finds Humor In Google Fiber's Struggles With Gloating Blog Post

AT&T Finds Humor In Google Fiber's Struggles With Gloating Blog Post
As we’ve reported on a number of occasions in the past several weeks, Google Fiber has encountered an incredibly rough patch with deployments. This has been especially true in Nashville, Tennessee where the company has not only faced challenges with the geography of the region (it’s not exactly easy to bury fiber cable in limestone rock),

Source: Hot Hardware – AT&T Finds Humor In Google Fiber’s Struggles With Gloating Blog Post

Half the Population Will Click On Random-Ass Links

Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany conducted a study that sent out 1,700 emails that simulated a phishing scam, and made an unfortunate discovery: around half of the participants, even ones that claimed to be aware of such security risks, clicked on the links.

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Source: Gizmodo – Half the Population Will Click On Random-Ass Links

One of Europe's Biggest Companies Loses 40 Million Euros In Online Scam

An anonymous reader writes from a report via Softpedia: Leoni AG, Europe’s biggest manufacturer of wires and electrical cables and the fourth-largest vendor in the world, announced it lost 40 million euros ($44.6 million) following an online scam that tricked one of its financial officers into transferring funds to the wrong bank account. A subsequent investigation revealed that attackers had scouted the company’s network and procedures, and identified a weak spot to attack. According to authorities, a young woman working as CFO at Leoni’s Bistrita factory in Romania was the target of the scam, when she received an email spoofed to look like it came from one of the company’s top German executives asking her to transfer funds to a bank account. According to unconfirmed information, the money stolen from Leoni’s Bistrita branch ended up in bank accounts in the Czech Republic. The FBI says this type of attack is known as CEO fraud, whaling, or BEC (Business Email Compromise), and has defrauded companies around the world of over $3 billion since October 2013.

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Source: Slashdot – One of Europe’s Biggest Companies Loses 40 Million Euros In Online Scam

3D-Printed Aircraft Tool Sets Guinness World Record

coondoggie quotes a report from Network World: A 17.5 foot long, 5.5 foot wide and 1.5 foot tall the 3D printed aircraft design tool has earned the title of largest solid 3D printed item by Guinness World Records. The 1,650 lb. apparatus known as a trim-and-drill tool is comparable in length to a large sport utility vehicle and will ultimately be tested for use in building the Boeing 777X passenger jet. Basically the tool will be used to secure the jet’s composite wing skin for drilling and machining before assembly, according to researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ONRL) who developed the tool. “The existing, more expensive metallic tooling option we currently use comes from a supplier and typically takes three months to manufacture using conventional techniques,” said Leo Christodoulou, Boeing’s director of structures and materials in a statement. “Additively manufactured tools, such as the 777X wing trim tool, will save energy, time, labor and production cost and are part of our overall strategy to apply 3D printing technology in key production areas.”

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Source: Slashdot – 3D-Printed Aircraft Tool Sets Guinness World Record

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: The 15 Anime Of Summer 2016 You Sh

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: The 15 Anime Of Summer 2016 You Should Be Watching That Time Daredevil Played Russian Roulette
Let’s Play Pokemon Blue, Miiverse Style Part 2

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Source: Kotaku – Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: The 15 Anime Of Summer 2016 You Sh

Samsung Unveils Gear S3 Classic and Frontier Smartwatches Powered By Tizen

MojoKid quotes a report from HotHardware: Samsung just wrapped up an event at the IFA expo in Berlin, where the company unveiled two new Gear S3 branded smartwatches. The new Samsung Gear S3 Classic and Gear S3 Frontier leverage many of the design elements from last-year’s Gear S2 — like their Tizen OS, rotating control dial, round display, and fast wireless charging. However, other aspects of the Gear S3 have received significant upgrades. Although they are internally similar, there are a few external differences between the Gear S3 Classic and Frontier. The Gear S3 Classic is the sleeker, more streamlined version of the two. The Classic has a polished finish, with round buttons at the 2 and 4 o’clock positions and no addition protrusions on its chassis. The Gear S3 Frontier is more rugged and has a darker, brushed finish, with flat, rectangular textured buttons and protrusions on either side of the body to shield the buttons from accidental presses. Both the Gear S3 Classic and Frontier are also outfitted with Gorilla Glass SR to protect their circular, Super AMOLED displays, and they’re both compatible with industry standard 22mm watch bands too. They are also IP68 rated, so they’re able to withstand dust and dirt, and water resistant for up to 30 minutes under 1.5 meters of water. Depending on how heavily these devices are used, Samsung claims they can last roughly 3 — 4 days on a single charge. They also have support for NFC (compatible with Samsung Pay), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and have built-in heart rate monitors, altimeter/barometer, and GPS as well.

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Source: Slashdot – Samsung Unveils Gear S3 Classic and Frontier Smartwatches Powered By Tizen

Everyone Involved in This $1.8 Million Grumpy Cat Lawsuit Sucks Except for the Cat

The value of internet celebrity is hard to assess, but a new motion filed by the owners of the animal star known as Grumpy Cat seeks to do just that. In it, the holders of the “GRUMPY CAT” trademark have asked a court to triple a requested $600,000 award over alleged copyright infringement of a goddamn cat.

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Source: Gizmodo – Everyone Involved in This .8 Million Grumpy Cat Lawsuit Sucks Except for the Cat

Lenovo’s new Yoga Book is a 360 degree laptop without the keyboard

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Microsoft’s Courier was supposed to be an electronic journal or diary, a piece of hardware purpose-built for applications like OneNote. Two screens with a hinge between them, it opened and closed like a book, supporting both touch and stylus input on both its screens. Lenovo’s new Yoga Book looks like a riff on the Courier combined with the company’s successful range of 360 degree hinge Yoga-branded laptops.

Like a Yoga machine, it’s a more or less clamshell form factor that can be opened right up to turn it into a tablet of sorts. Like Courier, it’s got book-like styling with both halves approximately the same size for a symmetrical look. And like the Courier, it’s designed for mixed touch and pen input. But it has a twist. A normal laptop has a screen and a keyboard. Courier has a screen and another screen. The Yoga Book does neither of these things; it has a conventional touch screen paired with a special touch input surface designed for a stylus, dubbed the Create Pad.

Using the Real Pen to paint.

Using the Real Pen to paint. (credit: Lenovo)

Press a button and the Create Pad turns into a backlit keyboard using haptic feedback to simulate the feedback you’d get from a regular keyboard. In this mode, it has shades of Microsoft’s Touch Covers, but the Yoga Book’s concept is more versatile—the touch surface isn’t just a keyboard—and probably more comfortable, thanks to that feedback. The removal of the physical keys makes this half of the Yoga Book thinner; it also makes it into a drawing surface. Hide the virtual keys and it becomes a stylus workspace for the Yoga Book’s battery-free Real Pen, with 2,048 pressure levels and angle detection. Clip a piece of paper to the Create Pad and put some ink into the Real Pen and you can draw with, well, a real pen and real ink, while everything you do gets immediately digitized by the device.

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Source: Ars Technica – Lenovo’s new Yoga Book is a 360 degree laptop without the keyboard

Google's DeepMind To Apply AI In Head and Neck Cancer Treatments

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Stack: Google’s DeepMind team has partnered with British hospital doctors on an oral cancer program hoping to cut planning times for radiotherapy treatments. After recently announcing a partnership with London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital to use its machine learning technologies to speed up the diagnoses of eye conditions, DeepMind has confirmed a new initiative at the University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust. According to Google’s artificial intelligence unit, cancer treatments including radiotherapy involve complicated design and planning, especially when they involve the head and neck. Treatments need to obliterate cancerous cells while avoiding any healthy surrounding cells, nerves, and organs. UCLH plans to work with DeepMind to explore whether machine learning can reduce planning time for these treatments, particularly for the image segmentation process which involves clinicians taking CT and MRI scans to build a detailed map of the areas to be treated. The report adds: “DeepMind algorithms will be set to work on an anonymized collection of 700 radiology scans from former oral cancer patients, learning from the historical data in order to draw its own conclusions without human support.”

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Source: Slashdot – Google’s DeepMind To Apply AI In Head and Neck Cancer Treatments