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The world’s first autonomous cargo ship will launch next year
The world’s first autonomous cargo ship is planned to be launched in 2018, as a company in Norway said Saturday that it has committed to build and deploy one. Two companies, Yara International ASA and Kongsberg Gruppen, have joined forces to build the “Yara Birkeland,” a container vessel that will cart fertilizer on a 37-mile route from a production ...
‘White hat’ hackers claim they stole $85M in Ethereum tokens for safekeeping
There’s a strange new twist to the Parity Ethereum wallet hacking story Wednesday in which 150,000 ETH tokens ($31 million) was stolen from three companies that had recently raised funds through an initial coin offering. Now, so-called “white hat” hackers are claiming to have stolen an additional 377,000 ETH tokens ($85 million) for safekeeping and are ...
Pro tip: If you run an illegal marketplace, don’t link it to your personal Hotmail account
The disappearance of darknet marketplace AlphaBay was first thought to be an exit scam, then was linked to the alleged suicide of one of its owners before credit was claimed by the Department of Justice. Whatever the reason for its demise, it turns out AlphaBay is also an object lesson in how not to run an illegal ...
Graphcore raises $30M to develop its dedicated machine learning chips
British machine learning startup Graphcore Ltd. Thursday said it has raised $30 million to push its vision of making chips for machine learning. The Series B round was led by Atomico and included existing investors Amadeus Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, C4 Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Draper Esprit Plc, Foundation Capital, Pitango and Samsung Catalyst Fund. A number ...
Drone operators will be able to get instant approval to fly in restricted airspaces
The Federal Aviation Administration will allow drone operators to apply for and gain instant approval to operate in restricted airspaces as part of its development of new Air Traffic Control and registration guidelines for unmanned aerial vehicles. The proposed authorization method, which is described more formally as “Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability,” will allow commercial ...
Russian man sentenced to five years in prison over Citadel malware role
A Russian man who was involved in the distribution and maintenance of the Citadel malware that ran rampant in 2013 has been sentenced to five years in prison. Mark Vartanyan (pictured), also known as “Kolypto,” was arrested by Norway in October 2014 and served two years behind bars there before being extradited to the United States in ...
$31M stolen in hack that targeted initial coin offering companies
Ethereum wallets linked to at least three companies that have raised funds through initial coin offerings have been hacked, with about 150,000 ETH tokens ($31 million) being stolen. The hack exploited a vulnerability in wallets provided by Parity Technologies Ltd. and used by three companies. They were Edgeless Casino, which raised around $2 million in ...
Apple launches a blog dedicated to sharing machine learning research
Expanding on its efforts to engage with the academic and research communities, Apple Inc. has launched the “Apple Machine Learning Journal,” a blog dedicated to publishing scholarly research papers on the growing field of teaching computers to learn on their own. “Here, you can read posts written by Apple engineers about their work using machine learning ...
Vulnerable systems could allow ships to be hacked at sea
Nothing is sacred when it comes to potential targets for hackers. A newly identified security risk takes potential hacking quite literally out to sea in the form of ships. Detailed by a security researcher by the name of “x0rz” on Twitter, the configuration of certain satellite antenna systems on ships leaves them wide open to attack. ...
New Bluetooth standard supports mesh networking for the Internet of Things
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has announced a new standard for the wireless technology that will allow Internet of Things devices to talk to each other in a mesh network. Mesh networking is a network of connected devices where each node, in this case a connected device, can cooperate in the distribution of data to other ...
