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As the 2020 election heats up, climate change becomes a bigger priority
Climate change is only going to become a bigger voter issue as the US inches closer to the presidential election. The existential threat has already climbed close to the top of Democratic voters’ priorities. Even Donald Trump tossed an environmental talking point into his State of the Union turned campaign…
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Blackbox welfare fraud detection system breaches human rights, Dutch court rules
An algorithmic risk scoring system deployed by the Dutch state to try to predict the likelihood that social security claimants will commit benefits or tax fraud breaches human rights law, a court in the Netherlands has ruled. The Dutch government’s System Risk Indication (SyRI) legislation uses a non-disclosed algorithmic risk…
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Microsoft’s Windows future is now tied to hardware
If you’ve been following Microsoft’s Windows changes in recent years, then this week’s reorg inside the company won’t have come as much of a surprise. Chief product officer, Panos Panay, is now taking a bigger role that involves him leading a single group that combines the Windows Experience team and…
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DJI Mavic Mini Review: The Best Drone for Most People
DJI’s latest small drone is lightweight, small enough to fit in your pocket, and tons of fun to fly. Source
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Critical Cisco vulnerabilities put millions of network devices at risk
Five different critical vulnerabilities, collectively known as CPDwn, have been discovered in Cisco’s Discovery Protocol, potentially putting tens of millions of enterprise network devices such as desk phones, cameras, and network switches, at risk. Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) is a level 2 protocol that is used to discover information about…
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Vodafone faces advert ban over unclear speed limits on unlimited data plans
As one of the many recent advancements in the world of phone contracts, many retailers have come forward with plans that offer up completely unlimited data allowing you to browse, stream and game with no fear of hitting a data limit. While Three had been doing it for a while,…
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