A research ship working for Farice is working to finish mapping the sea bed before the end of this summer in preparation for a new undersea data cable between Iceland and the rest of Europe. The state telecommunications fund appointed Farice, which runs Iceland’s existing two internet cables, to start preparations for a third.
Archive for January, 2019
Smartphones hold most of our lives now in photos, videos, music, and more, and Samsung’s latest tech will make it so they can store even more. The Korean manufacturer announced that it has created the first 1TB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) chip for smartphones, which will allow future handsets to have internal storage capacities similar to those of laptops. Continue reading
Alphabet’s Jigsaw has a new quiz to test your ability to distinguish phishing emails from regular, benevolent ones.
This week on CYBER, we talk to Jek, who tells us the tricks of her trade.
Google is taking steps to make it harder for someone to push a malicious update that disables the security features on an Android phone.
For the second time in six months, an Apple engineer is accused of stealing intellectual property in order to benefit a China-based competitor
Canonical is updating Ubuntu 18.04 to the 4.15.0-44.47 Linux kernel to fix several security bugs. Continue reading
Apache Spark is a hugely popular execution framework for running data engineering and machine learning workloads. It powers the Databricks platform and is available in both on-premises and cloud-based Hadoop services, like Azure HDInsight, Amazon EMR and Google Cloud Dataproc. It can run on Mesos clusters too. Continue reading
It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps to sidestep the App Store and collect extensive data on users. Google has been running an app called Screenwise Meter, which bears a strong resemblance to the app distributed by Facebook Research that has now been barred by Apple, TechCrunch has learned. Continue reading
In the wake of TechCrunch’s investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook’s Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down. The Research app asked users for root network access to all data passing through their phone in exchange for $20 per month. Apple tells TechCrunch that yesterday evening it revoked the Enterprise Certificate that allows Facebook to distribute the Research app without going through the App Store. Continue reading
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