Major internet outage hits Canada with 75% national connectivity loss.

Euro Weekly: Major internet outage hits Canada with 75% national connectivity loss.

Canada has suffered a major internet outage across the nation as reported on Friday, July 8.

Canada’s major internet outage is reportedly due to the telecommunications giant “Rogers” suffering technical difficulties that have caused clients across the nation to lose their cable, wireless and internet connections.
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    ⚠️ Confirmed: A major internet outage has been registered across #Canada; real-time network data show national connectivity down to 75% of ordinary levels; incident impacts network operator Rogers and other ISPs, with telephony and emergency calls reported unavailable by many 📉 pic.twitter.com/aJhksefYC1

    — NetBlocks (@netblocks) July 8, 2022

Nationwide outage of Internet, cell phones, ATMs...coming soon to the USA. Just gotta test it on Canada or another third-world country first.

Huawei Conspired to steal T Mobile's trade secrets from Tappy the Robot.

Corporate espionage? This is a great Tech story.

NPR: DOJ case claims Huawei hi-jinx with Tappy the T Mobile Robot.

The Justice Department unsealed two separate indictments of Chinese telecom device maker Huawei on Monday. But only one of them reads like the script of a slapstick caper movie.

That would be the one that describes the U.S. government's case alleging that Huawei stole trade secrets from T-Mobile, the wireless service company.

In the indictment, the government says that between June 2012 and September 2014, Huawei repeatedly made efforts to steal information about the design of a T-Mobile robot. The robot's name, adorably, is "Tappy."

We would like to include a photo here of Tappy, but photographing the robot is expressly prohibited by T-Mobile, and Tappy is kept under very tight security in a lab at T-Mobile headquarters in Bellevue, Wash.
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Meanwhile, Huawei China was reportedly trying to build its own device-testing robot — named, less cutely, "xDeviceRobot" — and it was not finding much success. And Huawei's devices weren't faring well on T-Mobile's Tappy tests, failing more often than devices made by competitors.

In May 2012, Huawei USA asked if Huawei China could license the Tappy technology, and T-Mobile said no.

That's when Huawei began attempting to steal the design secrets of Tappy, according to the indictment.

"xDeviceRobot" ??

One area where China falls woefully behind the rest of the world is in naming their Tech-AI-Robo devices. Honestly...the best they could think of is "xDeviceRobot"? That's not much of a creative leap since the days of Johnny Sokko.

"Flying Robot" and not Tappy

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The police pull you over, go on a fishing expedition, allegedly find some controlled substance and, later, because you can't remember the passwords to your recently purchased cell phones the judge sentences you for contempt of court.  (WTF?) TechDirt:

The police have a warrant and claim that's all they need to demand access to the phones' contents. But that's predicated on a string of events that seem constitutionally-dubious, to say the least.
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As it stands now, [suspect William] Montanez is going to spend six months in jail for preventing police from rooting around in seized cellphones for evidence they don't need and which would likely be highly irrelevant to these criminal proceedings. The police can't show probable cause for this search because none exists. And yet, the judge trying the case demanded Montanez unlock the phones in court and when he failed to do so (Montanez claimed he could not remember the passcodes), the judge tossed him in jail to, I guess, jog his memory.

This case stinks all over.

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Is your DVR a Dahua? If so, your password and/or security may have been compromised. Bleeping Computer:

Login passwords for tens of thousands of Dahua devices have been cached inside search results returned by ZoomEye [...] these passwords are for Dahua DVRs running very old firmware that is vulnerable to a five-year-old vulnerability

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Wonderful article: Why Politicians always get tech wrong.  ZD Net:

...technology is one of the biggest drivers of change in society, because it underpins almost everything we do. It's one of the biggest sources both of threats and opportunities.

We need to vote tech-challenged politicians out of office. The future depends on it.
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A lot of businesses failing to detect malware, phishing domains and rogue imitation sites. Info Security:

Of the Alexa top 10,000 domains, 3390 were running one potentially vulnerable web component; 1,036,657 potentially vulnerable web components were found overall.
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“Some of the cryptomining scripts we found have been active for over 160 days, suggesting that organizations are failing to detect them”[.]

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Motherboard -  AI-assisted fake...adult entertainment:

...this new type of fake [adult entertainment] shows that we're on the verge of living in a world where it's trivially easy to fabricate believable videos of people doing and saying things they never did.

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The Drive - Nissan's GT-R will be the fastest sports car in the world.

The Nissa GT-R, fastest ever.

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Tech XPlore - You're movie preferences analyzed so to better market to you.  In other words, tech enables Hollywood with a new tool designed to get more of your money. 
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BGR - New, 50-inch 4k TV for $399.99.
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Gadgets Now - The world should fear sex-bots and not AI.

Today, it seems impossible that even the most high-tech AI can create a robotic substitute for human relationships. Yet robots could play a supplementary role.

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France, an up-and-coming tech giant.  TechCrunch:

France has now graduated from “asteroid” to “planet,” and is well on its way to “gas giant.”

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Ars Technia: Chrome. Redesigned. (Yes...again.)
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Technocracy: "Anonymous" can be ID'ed on Twitter with over 97% accuracy.  (I bet it was a tech-savvy politician, U.S. no doubt, who discovered this.)

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Wccftech - Gamer or not...this chair looks really comfortable.

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Webopedia: CTO.
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Information Week: No longer an abundance of IT jobs.
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Digg: There's no embedded code to copy and it's not on You Tube, so check out this video of a kayaker at 40 mph.
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I could link to every update on Freedom To Tinker, it is just a great site. A lot to read, much to absorb, I learn more than one thing on everything they write. Privacy Implications and email tracking. In the near future, the dictionary definition of "privacy" will begin as; "an out-dated and ill-conceived belief by the general pubic who once believed their personal information could be held private."
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TechDirt: FCC won't act on Easily identified fake comments made in the name of others.
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Extreme Tech: Is Donald Trump contributing to a new future of robots?
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PC World: How-To Watch MLB Playoffs and World Series without cable.
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Computer World: It could be just me, but if iPhone X users are obsessed with a bezel or bezel-less interface, it's time to put the phone down. For a long time.