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US customs are keeping data from devices they image
If you've had a phone or laptop imaged by US customs and border protection (CBP) agents, there's a good chance that they still have your data, according to a new report by an internal watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security (Ars Technica).
In 2017, over 29,000 travellers had their devices scanned without any warrant, up from 24,000 in 2016 and 5,000 in 2015. The report indicates that the CPB "has not universally implemented the requirement to delete copied information, increasing the risk of unauthorized disclosure of travelers' data should thumb drives be lost or stolen."
Facebook and ZeniMax conclude Oculus VR lawsuit
The legal dispute between Oculus owner Facebook and id Software parent company ZeniMax has been resolved with an out-of-court settlement (PC Gamer). ZeniMax had originally been awarded $500 million in court over its claims that legendary developer John Carmack had made Palmer Lucky's "crude prototype" of the Oculus Rift VR headset viable using code developed by Carmack while he was still working at id.
Intel announces Sunny Cove CPU architecture
Intel has announced the first major overhaul of its CPU architecture in years with its forthcoming Sunny Cove processors (AnandTech). Built on a 10nm process, Sunny Cove's most notable features include a larger integrate L1 and L2 cache, the ability to carry out more simultaneous instructions per clock cycle and an overhaul of its memory addressing, allowing the CPUs to support up to 4 terabytes of RAM per socket.
Does the internet really radicalise terrorists? It's (really) complicated
The shooting in Strasbourg, in which at least three people have been killed, will once again raise questions as to how people are radicalised (WIRED). “The way (the internet is) spoken about, the internet is given this radicalising agency. It doesn’t make sense,” says Joe Whittaker, a research fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism.
Taylor Swift turns facial recognition tech on her fans
US music star Taylor Swift implemented facial recognition technology in an effort to detect stalkers at her May 2018 concert at California's Rose Bowl stadium (The Verge). According to Rolling Stone, concertgoers who looked at a kiosk showing rehearsal footage had their photos taken at a suitable quality for facial recognition and sent back to a remote "command post" where they were compared against hundreds of images of known stalkers.
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