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Category5 Technology TV
Weekly live digital TV show with Robbie Ferguson focused on topics of interest to tech minds. Ask your questions and get live answers. Recipient of 2014 and 2017 Top 100 Tech Podcasters award.
Image Vector Tracing and DIY Presence Monitoring
- Episode 639
- January 15, 2020
- 1,949
Robbie's solo again this week, and it's a great opportunity to geek out in the Linux terminal! So let's learn to trace vector paths on raster images and create a doorbell system that performs any action as soon as your staff approach the building. We'll do all this from within the Linux terminal.
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Tech to Help New Year's Resolutions
- Jan 8, 2020
- 2,449
Robbie's Solo and Starting The Custom NAS Build
- Dec 18, 2019
- 2,203
The External Backup Decision and an Android Fire 7 Tablet
- Dec 11, 2019
- 2,097
PHP In Linux CLI, External Storage Dilemma and VLANs
- Dec 4, 2019
- 2,406
Amazon Echo Flex Initial Setup and Unreal Tournament Turns 20
- Nov 27, 2019
- 3,085
Making Windows 8/8.1 Look and Feel Like Windows 7
- Episode 321
- November 12, 2013
- 758,384
Not a big fan of the new "start screen" on Windows 8? We'll show you how to return the traditional Start Menu to the latest version of Microsoft's desktop operating system.
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Raspberry Pi as a Development Web Server - Part 2
- Jan 5, 2016
- 754,099
Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
- 738,720
Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 729,999
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 704,504
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A weekly tech-centric news broadcast with a Linux bias (Part of Category5 Technology TV).
PayPal Hacked, Scary Router Hijack, PinePhone, Mac Pro Server
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- A Citrix exploit lets hackers take over compromized systems with little effort and no credentials needed.
- Windows 7 support has come to an end.
- PayPal has confirmed that a researcher found a high-severity security vulnerability that could expose user passwords to an attacker.
- Hundreds of millions of Broadcom-based cable modems at risk of remote hijacking.
- Apple is now selling rack-mountable cheese graters.
- The PinePhone Brave Heart edition is available now for early adopters and we'll tell you about this $150 smartphone from Pine64.
Impossible Pork, Wawa Customers Beware, Mind-Reading Speech, Ring and Google Assistant Security
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- Dell’s new Concept UFO puts PC gaming on a Nintendo Switch-like device.
- Sony has developed an impressive electric car.
- Sony's latest displays are made specifically with the next-gen PlayStation 5 console in mind.
- A US convenience store and gas station chain had malware that stole customer payment info for more than half of 2019. If you live in the US, stick around - you may be affected.
- A brain implant has been invented that can read people's minds and turn their thoughts into speech.
- Amazon's Ring devices were a privacy nightmare in 2019. Now, the company wants to improve its image by giving users control over their security.
- The company that brought us the Impossible Burger is now doing a plant-based meat substitute as well.
- Google is adding new privacy and scheduling features to their virtual assistant.
BBC AI News, Nginx raided, Linux pwns ALL Competitors, Is QuadrigaCX Founder Really Dead?
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- HP is fighting a very real environmental problem by building their laptops out of ocean-bound plastics.
- A new Linux laptop has launched that blows the Macbook Pro out of the water.
- For the first time, BBC News published a news story for every constituency that declared election results overnight - all written by a computer.
- A Russian police raid on Nginx's Moscow office last Thursday has raised concerns among users of the popular web and proxy server software.
- Linux has destroyed every competing OS in the supercomputer market, taking a 100% share of the top 500.
- Remember when the owner of cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX passed away, taking hundreds of millions in customer crypto to the grave with him? Now, investors are beginning to wonder if he actually died, or if he just took the money and ran.
Facebook to encrypt messages, Google AR, Intel's pocket-sized LIDAR camera, credential security
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- Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google have stepped down from their positions as its CEO and President, respectively, with immediate effect at its parent company, Alphabet Inc.
- Mexican Cops Have Pre-Ordered a Fleet of Cybertrucks.
- Governments in the UK, US and Australia have asked Facebook, in an open letter, to roll back plans to bring end-to-end encryption to all of its platforms.
- Google is showing off stunning new augmented reality features coming to web and mobile apps soon.
- After analyzing a database containing 3 billion leaked credentials from security breaches, the Microsoft threat research team determined more than 44 million user accounts had a serious security problem. We'll tell you what you need to know.
- Intel is making LIDAR affordable, with a new palm-sized camera.
RPi 4 WiFi Glitch, Can't Trust US .gov Domains, Android Spy Flaw Fixed, Scary Smartwatch For Kids
- 647
- Google wants to bring Android “as close as possible” to the mainline Linux kernel.
- Apple will have to face the law for distributing crappy keyboards.
- Raspberry Pi 4 are having problems with WiFi when connected to high definition displays.
- Someone pretended to be a mayor and the government gave him a .gov domain.
- Google has confirmed that a flaw that allowed hackers to take control of Android phone cameras, microphones and GPS location without the owners’ permission has been fixed.
- A smartwatch advertised as a way to help parents keep track of their children and give them a peace of mind can be turned into a frightening surveillance device.
Google Will Pay $1.5m to Hack Pixel, DOD Fights 5G, WT Social, Monero Wallet Hacked
- 448
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested late Tuesday that his company had now received 250,000 pre-orders for the Cybertruck, its “Blade Runner”-inspired electric pickup. Tesla’s unveil event for its first pickup truck was marred by the vehicle’s windows breaking when an executive threw a metal ball at them in an effort to demonstrate their unbreakability. As it turns out, the same test was performed before the event, and went perfectly. The car’s trapezoid shape was also mocked in various memes. Even the official social media pages of LEGO had their go at the Cybertruck, but included innovative modular roof racks. Mr. Musk has said on Twitter that the reason Cybertruck is so planar is that you can't stamp ultra-hard 30X steel, because it breaks the stamping press. Despite the initial social media storm of people mocking the truck's design, others have praised the Cybertruck for bringing something new to the table.
- WyzeCam owners will soon find an update removes the AI-driven person detection from their device due to the unexpected termination of the agreement Wyze had with their AI provider. In Wyze's commitment to offer the feature for free, they are starting their own AI division to bring back person detection and other AI improvements to the motion detection. Wyze is being praised by its users on social media for their transparency through what is no doubt a difficult situation for their staff. The new firmware which removes the AI features is planned for mid-January 2020. There is no ETA yet as to when their new in-house solution will be ready.
- The Department of National Defense is joining the fight against 5G, citing risks to GPS and military operations.
- Google is serious about ensuring the Pixel line of Android phones is secure. They've announced that they'll pay security researchers up to $1.5 million to find hacks and exploits.
- The official site for the Monero digital coin was hacked to deliver currency-stealing malware to users who were downloading wallet software.
- Wouldn't it be nice if there was a Facebook rival? Well, there is! And it's founded by the guy who built Wikipedia.
Disney+ Accounts Compromised, Ring IoT Doorbell Hacked, GitHub Preserves Code Beyond the Year 3000
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- A new AI is combining machine learning and computer vision to detect drowning people in real time. By using object recognition, it's able to tell if a person is swimming normally, or if they are at risk of drowning. What's best is that Drowning-Detector is open source, and can run on a single board computer such as the Raspberry Pi.
- A secretive clean energy company backed by Bill Gates has created a way to use mirrors and artificial intelligence to harness the heat of the sun, replacing the need to use fossil fuels industrial heat applications, cut back on CO2 emissions. Their invention creates concentrated solar energy so hot that they can manufacture steel, glass and cement with a carbon-free source that had not been available before.
- Thousands Of Disney+ Accounts Are Already Up For Sale On Hacking Forums.
- IoT doorbell, Ring, had a bug in its configuration app which sent Wi-Fi setup information unencrypted to some doorbell devices, exposing customers' home networks.
- GitHub Will Preserve Open Source Code In An Arctic Vault.
No Drones in US Gov, Google Buys FitBit, Edge in Linux, James Dean is Back
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- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket deployed 60 Starlink satellites into earth’s orbit Monday.
- Google is attempting to combat the growing Play Store malware issue and has formed the “App Defense Alliance” which brings technology from ESET, Lookout and Zimperium to the Play Store - you’ll notice now if you install an app, it gets scanned first.
- NASA scientists opened an untouched rock and soil sample from the Moon returned to Earth on Apollo 17, marking the first time in more than 40 years a pristine sample from the Apollo era has been opened.
- The US Interior Department is grounding its entire drone fleet for fear it could be used against them.
- Google is buying Fitbit – and promises that they will not exploit all that health data to serve ads.
- Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux.
- The late James Dean is getting digitally restored for an upcoming movie — and many on the internet, including Chris Evans, aren’t happy.
Benign police drones, nuclear hack, Adobe disconnects paid users, rental "smart" car is stupid
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- Police Scotland has unveiled a new aerial drone system to assist them in searches for missing and vulnerable people.
- After initially denying it, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India has now confirmed that their network of nuclear power plants has been hacked.
- Amidst an already rocky ship following their response to US sanctions in Venezuela, Adobe continues to falter in the eyes of users, making a security blunder that exposed around 7.5 million user records to the public.
- An interesting and unexpected flaw in how smart devices work has turned up as five months after returning a rental car, the customer discovered that he can still track the vehicle, lock and unlock it, and even start and stop its engine.
Top Stories for the Week of October 30, 2019
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- Robbie called it last week when he said we may start to see legitimate companies moving content onto the dark web in light of recent government sanctions. Well, now BBC News announced it has launched a 'dark web' Tor mirror of its news service.
- The Bloodhound supersonic car has completed its first drive across the Hakskeen dry lake in South Africa.
- Two reports published in the last few months show that malware operators are experimenting with using WAV audio files to hide malicious code.
- Google built an advanced computer that has achieved "quantum supremacy" for the first time, surpassing the performance of conventional devices.
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