Take a look. 1. Illegal Bitcoin mine in Ukraine rail building busted A small but illegal Bitcoin mine has been located and dismantled in the Ukraine, according to a Facebook post published by an account which appears to belong to the Chairman of Ukraine’s state railway. Late last year, Yevhen Kravtsov said the farm was located in a railway building in Ternopil in the west of Ukraine. The farm allegedly installed more than 100 cryptocurrency miners which were attached to the railway building’s power supply in such a way they bypassed the electricity meter....

These devices, launched globally, included the OnePlus 9 Pro, the OnePlus 9, and the OnePlus watch. Let’s go through everything in detail. The OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro Last month OnePlus announced its partnership with the Swedish camera firm Hasselblad. The OnePlus 9 and the 9 Pro are the first phones sporting cameras benefitting from this alliance. Usually, the OnePlus focuses a lot on the display and performance of the device....

The reaction shows an animated emoji hugging a heart, meant to help you “show your support” to friends and family during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Presumably most people used the ‘Love’ reaction for similar purposes, but the hug reaction shows a bit more directly that you care about the person rather than the post. — Alexandru Voica (@alexvoica) April 17, 2020 Curiously, Facebook isn’t using the same reaction in Messenger, instead opting for a pulsating purple-ish heart....

The employees interviewed by Bloomberg say they do not know where the audio was recorded or how it was obtained, only that they were supposed to transcribe them. These clips sometimes included “vulgar content.” Facebook confirmed to Bloomberg it had stopped transcribing audio “more than a week ago,” following Apple and Google’s lead. The social network said contractors were verifying the performance of its AI transcription tools and that the conversations were anonymized....

In the coming weeks, users have liked, shared, or commented on false content will receive a pop-up warning in their News Feed. The message will direct them to a World Health Organization (WHO) webpage where coronavirus myths are debunked. “We want to connect people who may have interacted with harmful misinformation about the virus with the truth from authoritative sources in case they see or hear these claims again off of Facebook,” Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president for integrity, wrote in a blog post....

Brendan Leigh Baker, 27, a former cafe owner in Canberra, was found guilty in the ACT Supreme Court this week. According to a report, his most serious charge was attempting to import a commercial quantity of Methylone, a synthetic form of MDMA, which carries a maximum sentence of life behind bars. The case against Baker was centered around the testimony of a former drug dealer turned police informant who provided detailed evidence of the operation....

Small businesses have to work lean, which often means employees wear several hats to keep business operations running smoothly. Most of those boutique outlets can’t afford to hire a full-time accountant, so someone, usually the entrepreneurs themselves, will have to roll up their sleeves and tackle the books, even if they’ve never had any practical bookkeeping experience. That’s a recipe for problems. For over three decades, Quickbooks has been the dominant accounting software for small business use, currently boasting over 30 million users....

The field I was pursuing, called audience engagement, was relatively new. I certainly hadn’t taken any courses on it in college, and two of the companies I would later work for didn’t even exist when I graduated. How was I supposed to know which path to take when it was still under construction? I also didn’t see the ultimate goal of my career as reaching the top of the food chain....

France’s “cybergendarmes” or more formally, the C3N digital crime-fighting center was alerted to the potential fact that a server based in Paris had been distributing a virus called Retadup, BBC reports. It’s thought the virus managed to infect hundreds of thousands of Windows-based computers across the globe. Central and South America reportedly took the brunt of the infection. After a system was infected, hackers were able to take control and install cryptocurrency mining programs....

This is significant news for companies working on tech to detect drunk-drivers. In June, the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety, Inc. (ACTS) announced that a product equipped with new alcohol detection technology would be available for open-source licensing in commercial vehicles for the first time in late 2021. Their tech results from extensive R&D and testing by the DADSS Program, a public-private partnership between automakers and the US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)....

Dubbed Beyond the Wall, the game is a VR-only experience that “transports users to the northern border of The Seven Kingdoms to fight and defend The Wall. Players can test their sword-fighting skills against a terrifying undead polar bear and hoard of wights.” The game was developed by digital effects company Framestore, a company whose pedigree in the film industry is beyond reproach – so the experience should look really good....

GitHub inc, a Microsoft subsidiary, recently archived some 21 terabytes of data in long-term storage in hopes that an advanced future society will one day use it for historical purposes. Maybe they’ll want to know what kind of clumsy computers 21st century humans used. Maybe they’ll just want to play Doom. Either way, the archive contains as much information about human computing as GitHub could squeeze into it, including all the open-source AI code a future retroist could ever want to toy with....

The $179 earphones were merely previewed on screen at the event, where the company talked up the new design that allows the buds to sit flush in your ear, and “custom sensors, speakers, and battery” for improved performance. It’s hard to say what these will feel like to use, but our own Callum Booth noted the Buds look like mints attached to bits of bicycles’ inner tire tubing. The new earphones will feature Adaptive Sound, which will dynamically adjust the volume depending on the noise level of your surroundings....

In a statement, Google said it’s asking all employees based out of that office to work from on Friday, March 13: The company has also asked other employees who were in contact with the infected person to self-quarantine ad monitor their health. [Read: What being a CEO has taught me about delivering bad news] In an internal email obtained by CNBC, Anand Rangarajan, director of engineering and Bangalore site lead for the company, said the infected employee had traveled abroad but passed the screening test upon returning....

A prominent example of these truces is on the search battlefield. Google pays Apple big bucks to remain the default search engine on iOS devices — $8 billion to $12 billion a year, according to the US Justice Department. A new lawsuit has shone the spotlight on this mutual-defense treaty. The antitrust case alleges that Google, Apple, and their respective CEOs have violated US antitrust laws in their non-compete agreement....

Now when you receive a text from a strange number, Google will verify if it came from a legitimate business. If so, you’ll see the business name and logo in addition to a verification badge in the message thread. Of course, this doesn’t mean that texts without a badge are illegitimate; Google is just beginning to roll out the feature and not all businesses are in its database yet. Still, the feature should provide some peace of mind next time you get a text asking for a verification code....

Once you enable this feature, your phone will recognize sounds like the doorbell, a barking dog, and running water. This functionality is powered by Google’s Live Transcribe technology, which was originally used only to convert speech to text. But now, it can also identify sounds around you. While the household sound notifications are targeted towards people with hearing loss, it can also alert you to incidents if you’re wearing headphones and listening to music or podcasts....

In its annual report, breach disclosure platform HackerOne revealed it handed out nearly $40 million in bug bounties to security researchers in 2019 alone. The amount equals almost half of the $82 million the company has cumulatively awarded over the years. [Read: This hacker made $120K in a week by finding bugs in EOS cryptocurrency] HackerOne further noted there is now seven hackers on its platform that have scooped over a million for finding security kinks, as well as 13 more whose earnings have flown past the $500,000 mark....

I’ve been using the OnePlus 7T for over 72 hours, and I’m going to share my first impressions. But first, let’s take a look at the device’s upgraded specifications: Specifications Screen: 6.55-inch FullHD AMOLED at 1080 x 2400 resolution, 90Hz refresh rate (you’ll be able to scroll faster) Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+, octa-core, up to 2.84 GHz Memory: 8GB Rear camera: 48–megapixel sensor with f/1.7 aperture + 12-megapixel telephoto sensor with f/2....

Naturally, with the growing price of bitcoin comes a wave of new enthusiasts who don’t want to miss the opportunity of the next spike in the value of cryptocurrencies. Unfortunately, many of these people dive headlong into the market without knowing all the sensitivities involved in handling cryptocurrency wallets. Many of them fall victim to preying hackers or their own mistakes and lose hold of their cryptocurrency savings. In the early days of bitcoin, there was a clear trade-off between wallet security and convenience....