Amazon, Microsoft, and India crack down on tech support scams
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon, Microsoft, and India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the country’s federal enforcement agency, have announced a major crackdown on tech support fraud. The CBI’s post details two instances where scammers pretended they were customer support agents for two “well-known multi-national companies”
Read moreDecodable SwiftData
A proof of concept to build offline-first iOS appsOur final prototype | screenshot by authorSince Apple announced the new SwiftData framework at WWDC23, I’ve been SUPER eager to try it out. It’s a new framework that matches SwiftUI’s style and makes working with persistent data (CoreData) much easier. Now that it's out
Read moreFinding a Random Point on a Polygon Using Jetpack Compose, Canvas, and Algorithms
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Read moreBuilding an Order Delivery Analytics Application With FastAPI, Kafka, Apache Pinot, and Dash, Part…
Building an Order Delivery Analytics Application With FastAPI, Kafka, Apache Pinot, and Dash, Part 1Image by Brett Jordan from UnsplashManaging orders efficiently is vital for businesses in today’s world of online shopping and fast deliveries. Data-driven insights have become the key to achieving this. Imagine having a tool that lets you track
Read moreWaymo’s new simulator helps researchers train more realistic agents
Autonomous vehicle companies use simulators to train their self-driving systems and teach them how to react to “agents” — things like pedestrians, cyclists, traffic signals and other cars. To have a truly advanced AV system, those agents need to behave and react realistically to the AV and to each other.
Read more23andMe says it’s looking into another possible data leak
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge 23andMe is investigating reports of a new data leak involving millions of user records. On Wednesday, TechCrunch reported that a hacker claims to have leaked 4 million genetic profiles belonging to people in Great Britain, along with “the wealthiest people living in
Read moreFCC begins second quest for net neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission officially began its effort to re-establish net neutrality at its monthly meeting today, with a proposed rule prohibiting broadband providers from favoring or throttling certain internet traffic. While it still faces a legal and political battle, the new rule benefits from 8 years of hindsight. In
Read moreAll eyes on Tesla’s margins
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Read moreHackers exploit zero-day to compromise tens of thousands of Cisco devices
Hackers have exploited an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Cisco’s networking software to compromise tens of thousands of devices, researchers have warned. Cisco on Monday issued an advisory warning that a critical-rated vulnerability in IOS XE, the software that powers the company’s range of networking devices, was being actively exploited by
Read morePhoton’s app for pro photographers lets you shoot and save to an external drive
Photon, an iOS app for pro photographers, is introducing a new feature that will allow iPhone 15 Pro users to save their photos directly to an external drive, freeing up valuable disk space on their device. The app, which hails from LateNightSoft, the makers of the popular consumer app Camera+,
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