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Can Blockchain Solve Data’s Integrity Problem?

Michael York Reading, PA Syndicated Stories, The Security Ledger

The rapid digitalization and automation of business processes makes data integrity critical, as low-quality data risks infecting automated business decision process. Authors Dan Geer and T. Mark Morley suggest that blockchain may offer one solution to the data integrity problem.

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In nearly every part of the world, people associate the word ‘government’ with order. Government services bring societal order, economic stability and security at all levels. However, the past decade of data breaches has challenged this. Federal and local governments battle worldwide breaches and cyber attacks. Data security flaws have been so pervasive in public […] The post Exploring the Costs, Risks and Causes of a Government Data Breach appeared first on Security Intelligence. [...]

Passwordless Authentication Is Here: What Do You Need to Know?

19 October 2021

Passwords are becoming a dying breed. In a recent article from Microsoft, they announced that they are putting aside their decades-old practice of forcing users to sign in with a password to use the business and personal applications suite — one of the most popular software packages on earth. Passwordless authentication is becoming the new […] The post Passwordless Authentication Is Here: What Do You Need to Know? appeared first on Security Intelligence. [...]

A Journey in Organizational Resilience: Training and Testing

18 October 2021

We are far from a breach-free world. After all, even cybercriminals have shown their own form of resilience. For example, after a short hiatus, the ransomware group REvil came back in September 2021. Until the day we can leave our ‘cyber front door’ unlocked, any organizational resilience framework you employ needs to include a healthy […] The post A Journey in Organizational Resilience: Training and Testing appeared first on Security Intelligence. [...]

Cybersecurity Careers: Awareness, Opportunities and Retention

18 October 2021

This week, Cybersecurity Awareness Month focuses on cybersecurity careers and jobs in the industry, with a simple tagline: Explore. Experience. Share. Check out NIST’s workshops and toolkits for Career Week. For cybersecurity and IT workers, if you want to position yourself well, do some exploring. Get to know new territory outside of cybersecurity. The reason? […] The post Cybersecurity Careers: Awareness, Opportunities and Retention appeared first on Security Intelligence. [...]

What Happens to Information After a Data Breach?

15 October 2021

We’ve grown accustomed to it by now — a few million accounts broken into here, another hundred million there. After a company data breach, what happens to all the data? Where does it go? And how does this impact your vulnerability analysis? In June 2020, stolen Facebook user data suddenly popped up for sale on […] The post What Happens to Information After a Data Breach? appeared first on Security Intelligence. [...]

When Is an Attack not an Attack? The Story of Red Team Versus Blue Team

15 October 2021

Cybersecurity experts fill our days with terminology from warfare, including jargon such as red team versus blue team. The concept of ‘red team’ has its origin in wargaming. The red team plays an opposing force and attempts to bypass the barriers of the defending or blue team. These exercises are not about winning or losing. […] The post When Is an Attack not an Attack? The Story of Red Team Versus Blue Team appeared first on Security Intelligence. [...]

How to Report Scam Calls and Phishing Attacks

14 October 2021

With incidents such as the Colonial Pipeline infection and the Kaseya supply chain attack making so many headlines these days, it can be easy to forget that malicious actors are still preying on individual users. They’re not using ransomware to do that so much anymore, though. Not since the rise of big game hunting, anyway. […] The post How to Report Scam Calls and Phishing Attacks appeared first on Security Intelligence. [...]

Roundup: Customer Data and Retail Security in the News

14 October 2021

More people are shopping online than ever before due to the pandemic. Therefore, businesses had to take extra steps to protect customer data, combat fraud and implement the latest in online safety. In 2020, e-commerce retail sales jumped from 16% to 19%, according to data from United Nations trade and development experts from UNCTAD. In the […] The post Roundup: Customer Data and Retail Security in the News appeared first on Security Intelligence. [...]

What Is the True Cost of a Health Care Data Breach?

13 October 2021

The health care industry has remained the top data breach target for eleven years in a row. Highly sensitive and personally identifiable information (PII) held by health care systems is an attractive target. After all, it contains all the information used for identity theft. In addition, that data may be stored on less secure networks […] The post What Is the True Cost of a Health Care Data Breach? appeared first on Security Intelligence. [...]

Trickbot Rising — Gang Doubles Down on Infection Efforts to Amass Network Footholds

13 October 2021

IBM X-Force has been tracking the activity of ITG23, a prominent cybercrime gang also known as the TrickBot Gang and Wizard Spider. Researchers are seeing an aggressive expansion of the gang’s malware distribution channels, infecting enterprise users with Trickbot and BazarLoader. This move is leading to more ransomware attacks — particularly ones using the Conti […] The post Trickbot Rising — Gang Doubles Down on Infection Efforts to Amass Network Footholds appeared first on Security Intelligence. [...]

Investors Bet Big on Attempts to Solve Encryption 'Holy Grail'

20 October 2021

News Analysis: Venture capital investors are pumping millions of dollars into privacy enhancing technology (PET) projects, betting that hardware and software innovation is finally coming together to solve one of the “holy grails” of encryption. read more [...]

Query.AI Raises $15 Million in Series A Funding Round

20 October 2021

Query.AI, a company that has developed a security investigations platform for enterprises, this week announced raising $15 million in a Series A funding round, which brings the total raised to nearly $20 million. read more [...]

Magnitude EK Expands Arsenal With PuzzleMaker Exploit Chain

20 October 2021

The Magnitude exploit kit (EK) is now capable of targeting Chromium-based browsers running on Windows systems, security researchers with Avast warn. read more [...]

Threat Detection Marketplace SOC Prime Raises $11 Million

20 October 2021

Threat detection marketplace SOC Prime this week announced that it has raised $11 million in Series A funding. To date, the company has raised a total of $11.5 million. The new capital, the company says, will help it accelerate the adoption of its marketplace, which allows security researchers to monetize their content to help others fend off cyberattacks. read more [...]

Acer Confirms Breach of Servers in Taiwan

20 October 2021

Taiwanese tech giant Acer has confirmed that, in addition to servers in India, hackers breached some of its systems in Taiwan. read more [...]

Zerodium Buying Zero-Day Exploits Targeting VPN Software

20 October 2021

Exploit acquisition company Zerodium on Tuesday announced that it’s looking to buy zero-day exploits targeting popular VPN software. Specifically, the company wants to acquire exploits that work against the Windows versions of the ExpressVPN, NordVPN and Surfshark applications. These VPN services have millions of users. read more [...]

Oracle's October 2021 CPU Includes 419 Security Patches

20 October 2021

Oracle on Tuesday announced the release of its latest quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU), which includes a total of 419 security patches for vulnerabilities across the company’s portfolio. Just over half of the patches address vulnerabilities that could be exploited remotely without authentication, Oracle announced. read more [...]

Missouri Budget Officials Outline $50M Cost of Data Breach

20 October 2021

Help for roughly 100,000 teachers whose Social Security numbers were made vulnerable in a massive state data breach could cost Missouri as much as $50 million, the governor’s office confirmed Tuesday. read more [...]

How to Spot an Effective Security Practitioner

20 October 2021

By understanding what makes a great security practitioner, organizations can learn how to recruit and retain effective security practitioners read more [...]

U.S. Government Issues Urgent Warning on BlackMatter Ransomware

19 October 2021

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA) this week published a joint advisory to warn organizations of an increased threat posed by the BlackMatter ransomware gang. read more [...]

Muse’s latest meditation headband is designed to lull wearers back to sleep

20 October 2021

Meditation hardware is a tricky thing. Anyone who’s been frustrated in the pursuit of mindfulness has no doubt longed for some way to short circuit — or, at very least, jumpstart — a practice. I quite liked the original Muse headband’s addition to the category — affording an almost gamified approach to focusing (trust me, […] [...]

Countable brings in $12M for virtual brand communities

20 October 2021

Countable is taking a cue from the positives of social media to build technology that nurtures more authentic communication and facilitates business and social outcomes. [...]

Pinterest gets more TikTok-like with a ‘Watch’ tab for videos, announces $20M in creator rewards

20 October 2021

Pinterest has been trying to reposition its business as a home to creators, not just a shopping inspiration site. Today, the company revealed its latest efforts on this front, which include more Snapchat and TikTok-inspired features, including a vertical video feed and plans to invest $20 million in “Creator Rewards.” It’s also announcing a series […] [...]

Backblaze’s IPO shows it’s possible to go public sans mountains of VC cash

20 October 2021

Did anyone else mostly forget that you can build IPO-ready software companies without utter truckloads of external cash? Here's a reminder. [...]

What I learned after running my startup while traveling for a year

20 October 2021

So what happens when a pandemic forces office shutdowns and a move to remote work for everyone? Great things, as it turns out. [...]

WhatsApp rolls out ‘Collections’ to make it easier to shop

20 October 2021

WhatsApp is launching a new feature called ‘Collections’ to make it easier for users to shop for items using categories. The Facebook-owned platform is rolling out catalog collections to small businesses around the world starting today. The new collections feature essentially allows businesses to organize items in their catalogs by category so customers won’t have […] [...]

UpEquity, a digital mortgage startup that makes all cash offers, secures $50M in debt and equity

20 October 2021

UpEquity, a digital mortgage company that makes cash offers on a buyer’s behalf, announced today it has raised $20 million in equity funding and secured $30 in debt financing. S3 Ventures led the equity raise, which brings the startup’s total funding haul since its 2019 inception to $77 million, with $29.15 million of that in […] [...]

Stampli, the invoice management platform, launches a digital card

20 October 2021

Stampli, a SaaS company that streamlines corporate invoice management, has announced the launch of Stampli Card. The idea here is that some corporations sign on with vendors who only accept, or prefer to accept, credit card payments. This can lead to something Stampli refers to as ‘shadow spend.’ When a corporation pays a vendor through […] [...]

NerdWallet, Gen Z, and the value of the written word

20 October 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, the time of the week when we niche down to a single topic. Today? The written word. Natasha and Danny and Alex got together to dig into the recent NerdWallet IPO filing, and what it […] [...]

Walgreens will deploy Wing drone deliveries in the Dallas-Fort Worth area

20 October 2021

Alphabet today announced that Walgreens is partnering with Wing to bring drone-based deliveries to a portion of Texas’s Dallas-Forth Worth region. The drugstore giant will be the first to take advantage of a new rapid drone deployment system being unveiled by the Alphabet subsidy. In the lead up to this week’s announcement, Wing has been […] [...]

Researchers Break Intel SGX With New 'SmashEx' CPU Attack Technique

20 October 2021

A newly disclosed vulnerability affecting Intel processors could be abused by an adversary to gain access to sensitive information stored within enclaves and even run arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. The vulnerability (CVE-2021-0186, CVSS score: 8.2) was discovered by a group of academics from ETH Zurich, the National University of Singapore, and the Chinese National University of Defense [...]

OWASP's 2021 List Shuffle: A New Battle Plan and Primary Foe

20 October 2021

Code injection attacks, the infamous king of vulnerabilities, have lost the top spot to broken access control as the worst of the worst, and developers need to take notice. In this increasingly chaotic world, there have always been a few constants that people could reliably count on: The sun will rise in the morning and set again at night, Mario will always be cooler than Sonic the Hedgehog, and [...]

LightBasin Hackers Breach at Least 13 Telecom Service Providers Since 2019

20 October 2021

A highly sophisticated adversary named LightBasin has been identified as behind a string of attacks targeting the telecom sector with the goal of collecting "highly specific information" from mobile communication infrastructure, such as subscriber information and call metadata. "The nature of the data targeted by the actor aligns with information likely to be of significant interest to signals [...]

Microsoft Warns of New Security Flaw Affecting Surface Pro 3 Devices

20 October 2021

Microsoft has published a new advisory warning of a security bypass vulnerability affecting Surface Pro 3 convertible laptops that could be exploited by an adversary to introduce malicious devices within enterprise networks and defeat the device attestation mechanism. Tracked as CVE-2021-42299 (CVSS score: 5.6), the issue has been codenamed "TPM Carte Blanche" by Google software engineer Chris [...]

A New Variant of FlawedGrace Spreading Through Mass Email Campaigns

20 October 2021

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday took the wraps off a mass volume email attack staged by a prolific cybercriminal gang affecting a wide range of industries, with one of its region-specific operations notably targeting Germany and Austria. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint tied the malware campaign with high confidence to TA505, which is the name assigned to the financially motivated threat [...]

Cybersecurity Experts Warn of a Rise in Lyceum Hacker Group Activities in Tunisia

20 October 2021

A threat actor, previously known for striking organizations in the energy and telecommunications sectors across the Middle East as early as April 2018, has evolved its malware arsenal to strike two entities in Tunisia. Security researchers at Kaspersky, who presented their findings at the VirusBulletin VB2021 conference earlier this month, attributed the attacks to a group tracked as Lyceum (aka [...]

Squirrel Engine Bug Could Let Attackers Hack Games and Cloud Services

19 October 2021

Researchers have disclosed an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Squirrel programming language that can be abused by attackers to break out of the sandbox restrictions and execute arbitrary code within a SquirrelVM, thus giving a malicious actor complete access to the underlying machine. Tracked as CVE-2021-41556, the issue occurs when a game library referred to as Squirrel Engine is used [...]

Why Database Patching Best Practice Just Doesn't Work and How to Fix It

18 October 2021

Patching really, really matters – patching is what keeps technology solutions from becoming like big blocks of Swiss cheese, with endless security vulnerabilities punching hole after hole into critical solutions. But anyone who's spent any amount of time maintaining systems will know that patching is often easier said than done. Yes, in some instances, you can just run a command line to install [...]

Over 30 Countries Pledge to Fight Ransomware Attacks in US-led Global Meeting

18 October 2021

Representatives from the U.S., the European Union, and 30 other countries pledged to mitigate the risk of ransomware and harden the financial system from exploitation with the goal of disrupting the ecosystem, calling it an "escalating global security threat with serious economic and security consequences." "From malign operations against local health providers that endanger patient care, to [...]

Is Your Data Safe? Check Out Some Cybersecurity Master Classes

18 October 2021

Since cybersecurity is definitely an issue that’s here to stay, I’ve just checked out the recently released first episodes of Cato Networks Cybersecurity Master Class Series. According to Cato, the series aims to teach and demonstrate cybersecurity tools and best practices; provide research and real-world case studies on cybersecurity; and bring the voices and opinions of top cybersecurity [...]

Episode 228: CISA’s Eric Goldstein on being Everyone’s Friend in Cyber

18 October 2021

Eric Goldstein, Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), says the agency is all about helping companies and local government to keep hackers at bay. But are organizations ready to ask for help? The post Episode 228: CISA’s Eric Goldstein on being Everyone’s Friend in Cyber...Read the whole entry... »Click the icon below to listen. Related StoriesSpotlight: When Ransomware Comes CallingEpisode 227: What’s Fueling Cyber Attacks on Agriculture ?Spotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin Hutchison [...]

Spotlight: COVID Broke Security. Can We Fix It In 2022?

13 October 2021

In this Spotlight Podcast, Pondurance Founder and Chief Customer Officer Ron Pelletier gives us his predictions about the security trends that will shape 2022. The post Spotlight: COVID Broke Security. Can We Fix It In 2022? appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Click the icon below to listen. Related StoriesSpotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin HutchisonSpotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin HutchinsonSpotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling [...]

Episode 227: What’s Fueling Cyber Attacks on Agriculture ?

10 October 2021

In this episode of the podcast (#227) we speak with Allan Liska, the head of the CSIRT at the firm Recorded Future. about the spate of attacks in recent months targeting food processing plants, grain cooperatives and other agriculture sector targets. Allan and I talk about the how these attacks are playing out and why, all of a sudden, the...Read the whole entry... »Click the icon below to listen. Related StoriesSpotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin HutchisonSpotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin HutchinsonSpotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling [...]

Spotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin Hutchison

7 October 2021

Pondurance CISO Dustin Hutchison joins me to talk about how companies can operationalize MDR within their environment. The post Spotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin Hutchison appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Click the icon below to listen. Related StoriesSpotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin HutchinsonSpotlight: COVID Broke Security. Can We Fix It In 2022?Spotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling [...]

Spotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling

30 September 2021

With the attention given to the threats posed by ransomware, why do organizations still fall victim to these attacks? Max Henderson, the Manager of Incident Response at Pondurance joins us to talk about what companies get wrong in responding to ransomware and other threats. The post Spotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling appeared first on The...Read the whole entry... »Click the icon below to listen. Related StoriesSpotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin HutchisonSpotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin HutchinsonSpotlight: COVID Broke Security. Can We Fix It In 2022? [...]

Spotlight: Is There A Cure For InfoSec’s Headcount Headache?

22 September 2021

In this Spotlight Podcast, Lyndon Brown, the Chief Strategy Officer at Pondurance joins host Paul Roberts to talk about how changes in both the threat landscape and the workplace are driving demand for managed detection and response (MDR) services, in which companies hire outside security talent to help keep sophisticated cyber adversaries at bay. ...Read the whole entry... »Click the icon below to listen. Related StoriesSpotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin HutchisonSpotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin HutchinsonSpotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling [...]

Episode 226: The Cyber Consequences Of Our Throw Away Culture

17 September 2021

We speak with John Shegerian of ERI about his new book: “The Insecurity of Everything” and how our e-waste may be exposing sensitive data to other nations. The post Episode 226: The Cyber Consequences Of Our Throw Away Culture appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Click the icon below to listen. Related StoriesSpotlight: When Ransomware Comes CallingEpisode 224: Engineering Trust In The Cyber Executive OrderSpotlight: COVID Broke Security. Can We Fix It In 2022? [...]

Spotlight: Securing COVID’s New Normal with Cathy Spence of Intel

8 September 2021

What will it mean to secure the “new normal” after the COVID pandemic has receded? In this spotlight edition of the podcast, Cathy Spence, a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel, joins us in The Security Ledger Podcast studios to talk about what that new normal wt ill look like. For Cathy, the future looks a lot like the COVID-influenced...Read the whole entry... »Click the icon below to listen. Related StoriesSpotlight: COVID Broke Security. Can We Fix It In 2022?Spotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin HutchisonSpotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin Hutchinson [...]

Episode 225: Unpacking the Azure CHAOS DB Flaw with Nir Ohfeld of Wiz

6 September 2021

We’re joined by Nir Ohfeld of Wiz. Nir helped discover the recent CHAOS DB flaw in Azure COSMOS DB, the flagship database for Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. The post Episode 225: Unpacking the Azure CHAOS DB Flaw with Nir Ohfeld of Wiz appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Click the icon below to listen. Related StoriesSpotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin HutchisonSpotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin HutchinsonSpotlight: COVID Broke Security. Can We Fix It In 2022? [...]

Spotlight: E-Commerce’s Bot and Mouse Game

1 September 2021

In this Spotlight podcast we’re joined by Benjamin Fabre of DataDome to discuss the evolving risks to organizations as e-commerce shifts from web pages to mobile applications and APIs. The post Spotlight: E-Commerce’s Bot and Mouse Game appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Click the icon below to listen. Related StoriesSpotlight: COVID Broke Security. Can We Fix It In 2022?Episode 227: What’s Fueling Cyber Attacks on Agriculture ?Spotlight: Operationalizing MDR with Pondurance CISO Dustin Hutchison [...]

Microsoft now lets you test Android apps on Windows 11

20 October 2021

Microsoft is now allowing Windows 11 testers to try out Android apps. A preview version of the Windows Subsystem for Android will be available to beta testers of Windows 11 today, providing access to apps from the Amazon Appstore. Testers with Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm processors will all be able to try out Android apps on Windows 11. Apps can be loaded through the Microsoft Store, which will list a variety of apps that then point toward the Amazon Appstore to load and install. Android apps can run side by side with other Windows apps, and they’re also integrated into… [...]

CD Projekt Red delays next-gen Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 to 2022

20 October 2021

A screenshot from Cyberpunk 2077. | Image: CD Projekt Red In September, CD Projekt Red said it was targeting late 2021 release dates for Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s next-gen upgrades, but on Wednesday, the company announced those won’t be hitting this year. Now, the plan is for the next-gen version of Cyberpunk 2077 to release in the first quarter of 2022, while the next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is scheduled for a release in the second quarter of 2022. IMPORTANT PRODUCTION UPDATE pic.twitter.com/KOnaIVOt4v— CD PROJEKT RED (@CDPROJEKTRED) October 20, 2021 With the delays,… [...]

Sony is officially bringing God of War to PC

20 October 2021

Image: Sony One of Sony’s best PlayStation games, God of War, is headed to PC. The game will be available on January 14th, 2022, and you can preorder it now on Steam and the Epic Games Store for $49.99. If you opt to pick up the game on PC, you’ll be able to play it at 4K and unlocked frame rates, as well as in a 21:9 ultra widescreen aspect ratio (assuming you have the right hardware to support those features). The game will also support Nvidia’s DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and its Reflex low-latency technology for “a more… [...]

The mission to break barriers to space travel for people with disabilities

20 October 2021

Azubuike “Zuby” Onwuta flashes “Hook ‘em Horns” for the camera aboard the Zero G flight. | Image: Al Powers for Zero Gravity Corporation When Sina Bahram shifted into weightlessness for the first time on Sunday, he could feel the air brushing past his skin as his body began to float into the air. As someone who’d longed to be an astronaut since he was four years old, he’d been waiting many years to have this exact feeling. “I knew it would be a joyous experience just because I looked forward to it for many decades of my life, but the… [...]

Scientists took the first steps toward pig-to-human kidney transplants

20 October 2021

Photo by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images For the first time, surgeons successfully attached a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a human patient — a major scientific breakthrough, and one that could open up a new way to provide organs to sick people. Scientists got the kidney from a pig genetically engineered so that it wouldn’t produce a sugar called alpha-gal, which the human immune system attacks and would trigger the body to reject the organ. Surgeons at NYU attached the organ to a brain-dead patient on a ventilator whose family agreed to the experimental procedure. It was connected outside… [...]

Facebook fined $70 million for withholding information about Giphy acquisition

20 October 2021

Photo illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images A UK watchdog has fined Facebook £50 million ($70 million USD) for purposely concealing information about its Giphy acquisition (via TechCrunch). Facebook began its $400 million acquisition of Giphy in 2020, and even members of Congress thought it was a bad idea. The company’s dealings with the massive GIF-making hub were called out by UK regulators in August, leading the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to launch an antitrust probe. As part of the investigation, the CMA issued an initial enforcement order (IEO) that prohibits any further integration between Facebook and Giphy, which is supposed… [...]

DJI is making a cinema camera with a built-in gimbal and LIDAR focusing

20 October 2021

Image: DJI Drone-maker DJI has announced a cinema camera that comes with a built-in gimbal, can shoot at up to 8K resolution, and uses a LIDAR rangefinder that promises a “sharper, faster, and more reliable focusing experience,” even in low light. It’s called the Ronin 4D, and while it’s aimed squarely at professionals, it’s loaded with interesting features and shows that DJI is continuing to develop its camera tech outside of drones. The Ronin 4D’s camera is called the Zenmuse X9, and it’s full-frame, has interchangeable lens mounts for DJI’s DL and Leica’s M systems, and includes nine (nine!) built-in… [...]

The AI oracle of Delphi uses the wisdom of Reddit to offer dubious moral advice

20 October 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Got a moral quandary you don’t know how to solve? Fancy making it worse? Why not turn to the wisdom of artificial intelligence, aka Ask Delphi: an intriguing research project from the Allen Institute for AI that offers answers to ethical dilemmas while demonstrating in wonderfully clear terms why we shouldn’t trust software with questions of morality. Ask Delphi was launched on October 14th, along with a research paper describing how it was made. From a user’s point of view, though, the system is beguilingly simple to use. Just head to the website,… [...]

Samsung will now let you design your own Galaxy Z Flip 3

20 October 2021

The Galaxy Z Flip 3 Bespoke Edition. | Image: Samsung Samsung released the Galaxy Z Flip 3 in August, but if none of the colorways were exactly what you wanted, the company will let you make your own design with the new Z Flip 3 Bespoke Edition. The new phone was announced at the company’s Unpacked Part 2 event on Wednesday. You won’t be able to customize the Bespoke Edition with any color you want, but Samsung is offering a lot of options. You’ll be able to choose a black or silver phone frame and front and back colors (aka… [...]

Samsung is adding new watchfaces to the Galaxy Watch 4

20 October 2021

Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Samsung is bringing some new features to its Galaxy Watch 4 smartwatches in a new update, the company announced Wednesday. Perhaps the most significant change is four new watchfaces, which include a basic dashboard and a weather-focused one. You can see them in the GIF below from Samsung. New faces aren’t the only updates headed to the new watches; you’ll also be able to use a “knock-knock” motion in the air to launch a preset app or feature. Fall detection has also been improved so that if you’re standing still and you fall,… [...]

Microplastics May Be Cooling—and Heating—Earth’s Climate

20 October 2021

Tiny bits of plastic are swirling in the sky, and a new model suggests they could be subtly affecting the climate. [...]

How Hackers Hijacked Thousands of YouTube Accounts

20 October 2021

Google has shed light on a spate of attacks that turned creator channels into cryptocurrency scam livestreams. [...]

13 Face Masks Your Kids May Actually Wear

20 October 2021

Your child still needs a face mask for school or play. These are the styles my little ones will tolerate. [...]

The Mathematics of Cancel Culture

20 October 2021

To add fractions, you find the least common denominator—a term that has a certain resonance in our age of mass cancellation. [...]

I Never Want to Stop Riding the LeMond Prolog

20 October 2021

I don’t need it, but I could ride this ebike all day, every day, forever. [...]

More Covid Vaccine Boosters Are Coming. Who Should Get Them?

20 October 2021

Federal advisers meet again this week to discuss third shots, but it’s still not clear what the best timing is—or what the US owes the world. [...]

19 Delightful Gifts for Music Lovers and Audiophiles

20 October 2021

From headphones and speakers to accessories for their vinyl LPs, these gift ideas will appeal to any audio lover. [...]

7 Early Black Friday TV Deals to Help You Cozy Up This Fall

20 October 2021

From LG OLEDs to affordable TCL screens, a ton of our favorite models are steeply discounted. [...]

Google's Much-Hyped Pixel 6 Undercuts Its Peers at Just $599

19 October 2021

Joined by the Pixel 6 Pro at $899, these two new Android phones reinforce how important it is to optimize hardware and software. [...]

The 12 Best Features in Android 12—and How to Install It

19 October 2021

The latest version of Google's mobile operating system has some handy new improvements, and Pixel owners can download it now. [...]

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