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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.
PHP In Linux CLI, External Storage Dilemma and VLANs
- Episode 635
- December 4, 2019
- 1,138
PHP isn't limited to web services: Robbie will show you how to run your PHP scripts as command line apps on Linux. We'll also discuss the difficult decision between connectivity and future speed when looking at external storage, and how a VLAN could help protect Sasha's privacy on a shared Internet connection.
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Amazon Echo Flex Initial Setup and Unreal Tournament Turns 20
- Nov 27, 2019
- 1,506
2019 Broadcast System Build (i9 9900k)
- Nov 20, 2019
- 883
Industry Efficiency Through Solid Logistics
- Nov 13, 2019
- 1,332
Headphone Showdown
- Nov 6, 2019
- 1,016
Soldering PCB Headers and Powering a Pi from Battery
- Oct 30, 2019
- 1,363
Making Windows 8/8.1 Look and Feel Like Windows 7
- Episode 321
- November 12, 2013
- 757,727
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
- 754,037
Creating a Promotional Poster in GIMP
- Jan 12, 2016
- 738,640
Zorin OS 11 - Linux for Windows Users
- Jan 19, 2016
- 729,917
LED Bulbs, Fitness Through Tech and Making Kids Fly
- Jan 26, 2016
- 704,424
The Category5.TV Newsroom
A weekly tech-centric news broadcast with a Linux bias (Part of Category5 Technology TV).
RPi 4 WiFi Glitch, Can't Trust US .gov Domains, Android Spy Flaw Fixed, Scary Smartwatch For Kids
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- 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.
- Google wants to bring Android “as close as possible” to the mainline Linux kernel.
- 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.
- Apple will have to face the law for distributing crappy keyboards.
Google Will Pay $1.5m to Hack Pixel, DOD Fights 5G, WT Social, Monero Wallet Hacked
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- 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 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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- Thousands Of Disney+ Accounts Are Already Up For Sale On Hacking Forums.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
No Drones in US Gov, Google Buys FitBit, Edge in Linux, James Dean is Back
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- 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.
- 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.
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.
Top Stories for the Week of October 23, 2019
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- Access to Photoshop and other Adobe software has been cut off in Venezuela as the firm seeks to comply with US sanctions.
- A dog who survived in the rubble left in the wake of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas has earned its new name — Miracle.
- The official Sesame Street online store, along with thousands of other retailers, has been targeted by a credit card-stealing hack.
- Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency coalition is falling apart as eBay, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe jump ship.
Top Stories for the Week of October 9, 2019
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- PayPal has dropped out of the alliance that is trying to launch Facebook's digital currency Libra.
- A man has been able to move all four of his paralysed limbs with a mind-controlled exoskeleton suit.
- In what serves to confirm we are currently living in the end times, Microsoft has made a new mobile phone that has two screens, and runs Android.
- Canada’s busiest airport will soon be using artificial intelligence-powered technology to detect weapons.
Top Stories for the Week of October 2, 2019
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- Chinese police have arrested a fugitive who'd been on the run for 17 years, after they used drones to spot his cave hideout.
- The World's Most Freakishly Advanced Robot Dog Is Now For Sale.
- American entrepreneur Elon Musk has given an update on his Starship and Super Heavy rocket system.
- An injured tortoise who lost its shell in a fire has become the world's first recipient of a 3D-printed shell.
Top Stories for the Week of September 25, 2019
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- Chipotle Mexican Grill has been leaving money on the table, thanks to an apparent bug in the restaurant chain's e-commerce operation.
- Payment card thieves have hacked the Click2Gov bill paying portals in 8 cities.
- The German Ministry of the Interior wants to take back control of their 'digital sovereignty', cutting dependency on Microsoft and looking for alternatives.
- An anonymous bug hunter has publicly disclosed a zero-day flaw in the popular vBulletin forum software than can be exploited over the internet to hijack servers.
Top Stories for the Week of September 11, 2019
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- Facebook has confirmed that at least 200 million phone numbers from members have been exposed in an online database. It could be more than twice that.
- An estimated 600,000 GPS trackers for monitoring the location of kids, seniors, and pets contain vulnerabilities that open users up to a host of creepy attacks.
- To protect query privacy, Mozilla will begin a slow rollout of DNS-over-HTTPS by default in its Firefox browser at the end of the month, moving all DNS queries to Cloudflare.
- A blind man has helped develop smart cane that uses Google Maps and sensors to navigate the world.
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