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A security executive with the video-tech giant Zoom worked with the Chinese government to terminate Americans’ accounts and disrupt video calls about the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square, Justice Department prosecutors said Friday. The case is a stunning blow for Zoom, one of the most popular new titans of American tech, which […]
Enlarge / Close up of digital data and binary code in network. Getty Images Of the 18,000 organizations that downloaded a backdoored version of software from SolarWinds, the tiniest of slivers—possibly as small as 0.2 percent—received a follow-on hack that used the backdoor to install a second-stage payload. The largest populations receiving stage two were, […]
The U.S. 2020 election will be a “test” for Facebook, said chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on the company’s third-quarter earnings call. And he again warned of the potential for delayed election results because of increased use of mail-in ballots. ”I’m worried that with our nation so divided and election results potentially taking days or weeks […]
In a video posted to Facebook on Sept. 14, Dan Bongino, a popular right-wing commentator and radio host, declared that Democrats were planning a coup against President Trump on Election Day. For just over 11 minutes, Mr. Bongino talked about how bipartisan election experts who had met in June to plan for what might happen […]
An AI process that could let video calls be made over very slow internet connections has been developed by Nvidia, the computer graphics card-maker. Instead of streaming video, which can use a lot of data, the process sends just one key image of the speaker in addition to face-tracking data. The result can be recompiled […]
Will AI power video chats of the future? That’s what Nvidia implied this week with the unveiling of Maxine, a platform that provides developers with a suite of GPU-accelerated AI conferencing software. Maxine brings AI effects including gaze correction, super-resolution, noise cancellation, face relighting, and more to end users, while in the process reducing how […]
Members of Congress investigating the activity of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google say antitrust law reform is needed to safeguard democracy and “ensure that our economy remains vibrant and open in the digital age.” The findings comes from a document released today (PDF), the culmination of a 16-month long investigation carried out by the antitrust […]
Google’s latest update for its internet calling app, Duo lets you share your phone’s screen in video calls. The feature, for now, is only available for Android users and restricted to one-on-one chats. Incidentally, back in 2018, Google had rolled out a similar functionality for Duo but it was mysteriously removed after three months. Share […]
(Reuters) — Three users of the Facebook Messenger app sued Facebook on Tuesday, saying the social network violated their privacy by collecting logs of their phone calls and text messages, in the latest legal challenge facing the company. The U.S. lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of California seeks status as a […]