Online Forum Members Exploited Weak Credentials To Turn Ring Cameras Against Their Owners

To add to all the bad news that is Ring camera's life cycle to this point comes the report that a group of malcontents has been exploiting default/weak credentials to gain access to cameras. Joseph Cox has the...

Why Ring Doorbells Perfectly Exemplify the IoT Security Crisis

A new wave of reports about the home surveillance cameras getting hijacked by creeps is painfully familiar.

Why Amazon paid no 2018 US federal income tax

Amazon paid $0 in federal income taxes on more than $11 billion in profits before taxes for 2018. The company also received a $129 million tax rebate from the federal government. How does that happen? President Trump's tax cuts, aggressive revenue reinvestment, years of R&D and employee stock compensation all helped.

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Firing 4 Google Workers Is 'Illegal Retaliation,' Organizers Say

The workers, known as the “Thanksgiving Four,” all participated in a rally last week at Google’s San Francisco offices.

Apple Will Continue Licensing Acquired Intel Patents | The Motley Fool

While committing to licensing essential patents, the Mac maker takes some not-so-subtle shots at Qualcomm.

These will be the top 10 most popular tech skills of 2020

Udemy, an online learning platform, analyzed data from more than 40 million users to determine the most important tech skills people are gearing up for in 2020.

To GNU/Linux, the Operating System, GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) is Not the Threat. Microsoft is.

Don't let Microsoft get away with its bogus narration; GNU/Linux is primarily under attack from Microsoft, whereas Software Freedom in general is under attack from many directions

‘The time is now to have a federal privacy bill,’ says Tim Cook

The news comes days after Cook toured a computer factory in Texas alongside President Trump.

Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance of billions of people is a systemic threat to human rights

There needs to be a radical transformation of Facebook and Google's surveillance business model as it poses a systemic threat to human rights,

Microsoft is bringing Gmail accounts to Outlook on the web | TheINQUIRER

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Every Tech Company Wants to Be a Bank—Someday, At Least

Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Uber are all eyeing financial services as the next frontier. Getting there might take some work.

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A cure for unfair competition in open source | Tux Machines

Von der Leyen signals tough approach toward US tech giants

Incoming Commission boss says Europeans need to ‘shape our own approach to the digital world.’

Snowden Warns of Web Giants' 'Irresistible Power' | SecurityWeek.Com

Technology has given internet giants "irresistible power" when they work in concert with governments, whistleblower Ed Snowden told the Web Summit that opened in Lisbon on Monday.

Which hybrid cloud option is the best?

AWS Outposts vs Azure Stack vs Google Anthos vs Oracle Cloud at Customer vs IBM - the major cloud vendor's hybrid options compared

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

SUSI.AI Smart Speaker release 20191105 | Tux Machines

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How Reagan, Clinton, and Bill Gates paved the way for the rise of Big Tech

In this excerpt from Matt Stoller’s new book, ‘Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy,’ he describes how Microsoft avoided the fate of IBM, which was constantly under threat by antitrust authorities.