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California Awards $70 Million To State Schools To Replace 200 Polluting Diesel School Buses With All-Electric Buses
The California Energy Commission has awarded nearly $70 million to state schools to replace more than 200 diesel school buses with new, all-electric school buses. Electrek reports: The commission approved the funding this week. A total of $89.8 million has now been earmarked for new electric buses at schools in 26 California counties, as the commission’s School Bus Replacement Program works…
Amazon Offers $10 To Prime Day Shoppers Who Hand Over Their Data
Amazon.com has a promotion for U.S. shoppers on Prime Day, the 48-hour marketing blitz that started Monday: Earn $10 of credit if you let Amazon track the websites you visit. From a report: The deal is for new installations of the Amazon Assistant, a comparison-shopping tool that customers can add to their web browsers. It fetches Amazon’s price for products that…
Intel’s Pohoiki Beach is a Neuromorphic Computer Capable of Simulating 8 Million Neurons
During the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Electronics Resurgence Initiative 2019 summit in Detroit, Michigan, Intel unveiled a system codenamed “Pohoiki Beach,” a 64-chip computer capable of simulating 8 million neurons in total. From a report: Intel Labs managing director Rich Uhlig said Pohoiki Beach will be made available to 60 research partners to “advance the field” and scale up…
US Lawmakers Consider Ban On Big Tech Companies Launching Cryptocurrencies
PolygamousRanchKid quotes Reuters: A proposal to prevent big technology companies from functioning as financial institutions or issuing digital currencies has been circulated for discussion by the Democratic majority that leads the House Financial Services Committee, according to a copy of the draft legislation seen by Reuters. In a sign of widening scrutiny after Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) proposed Libra digital coin aroused…
Microsoft Office 365: Now Illegal In Many Schools in Germany
“Schools in the central German state of Hesse [population: 6 million] have been told it’s now illegal to use Microsoft Office 365,” reports ZDNet:
The state’s data-protection commissioner has ruled that using the popular cloud platform’s standard configuration exposes personal information about students and teachers “to possible access by US officials”. That might sound like just another instance of European concerns about…
Malicious Apps Infect 25 Million Android Devices With ‘Agent Smith’ Malware
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: Malicious apps from a campaign called “Agent Smith” have been downloaded to 25 million Android devices, according to new research by cyber-security firm Check Point. The apps, most of them games, were distributed through third-party app stores by a Chinese group with a legitimate business helping Chinese developers promote their apps on outside…
The Trillion-Dollar Taboo: Why It’s Time To Stop Ignoring Mental Health at Work
Experts in workplace psychology overwhelmingly agree that burnout is a growing public health crisis. An excerpt from a long report: When the FT set out to investigate this issue, we asked readers to describe how their employers handle mental health issues, including stress, burnout, anxiety and depression. More than 450 people responded from 43 countries. Although they were a self-selecting group,…
British Airways Hit With Record Fine For Data Breech
AmiMoJo writes: British Airways is facing a record fine of 183m Pound ($230m) for last year’s breach of its security systems. The Information Commissioner’s Office said the incident took place after users of British Airways’ website were diverted to a fraudulent site. Through this false site, details of around 500,000 customers were harvested by the attackers. The BA penalty amounts to…
British Airways faces largest ever data breach fine for 2018 hack
A hack that accessed the personal data of around half a million British Airways customers has earned the firm a record £183 million fine Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2208964-british-airways-faces-largest-ever-data-breach-fine-for-2018-hack/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…