Amazon settles with FTC for $25M after ‘flouting’ kids’ privacy and deletion requests
Amazon will pay the FTC a $25 million penalty as well as “overhaul its deletion practices and implement stringent privacy safeguards” to avoid charges of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act to spruce up its AI. Amazon’s voice interface Alexa has been in use in homes across the globe
Read MoreToyota adds $2.1B to its US battery factory expansion plans
Toyota will spend an additional $2.1 billion to build a new battery plant in North Carolina, the latest sign that the automaker is attempting to catch up with an industry that has embraced the move to electric vehicles. The Japanese automaker also announced Wednesday it will build its first U.S.-made
Read MorePopular Reddit app Apollo may go out of business over Reddit’s new, unaffordable API pricing
The maker of Apollo, one of the most popular third-party mobile apps for browsing Reddit, may have to close up shop due to Reddit’s recently announced new API pricing terms. App developer Christian Selig shared today that Reddit’s API pricing appears to be bad news for the future of third-party
Read MoreAtlanta Mayor Andre Dickens to speak at TechCrunch Live’s Atlanta event
TechCrunch Live is excited to announce a fireside chat with Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens to kick off our virtual TechCrunch Live: Atlanta event on June 7. He will sit down with me, Dominic-Madori Davis, at 2:00 p.m. EDT to discuss the burgeoning Atlanta tech scene, touching on everything from creating
Read MoreSix tips for getting the most out of your SIEM investment
Eric Thomas Contributor Share on Twitter Eric Thomas is vice president of security GTM at Logz.io, an open-source observability platform for DevOps teams. Security information and event management (SIEM) is one of the most well-established categories of security software, having first been introduced about 20 years ago. Nevertheless, very little
Read MoreAmazon’s Ring to pay $5.8M after staff and contractors caught snooping on customer videos, FTC says
Ring, the Amazon-owned maker of video surveillance devices, will pay $5.8 million over claims brought by the Federal Trade Commission that Ring employees and contractors had broad and unrestricted access to customers’ videos for years. The settlement was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on
Read MoreAmazon’s Ring agrees to pay $5.8 million to settle FTC spying suit
Image: Ring Amazon’s Ring unit has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that its doorbells illegally spied on users. The settlement addresses a lawsuit filed by the FTC Wednesday accusing Ring of unlawfully deceiving its customers over the privacy of their data and the videos
Read MoreA Story About a Software Architect
I had a chance to be an interim Software Architect recently, and here’s a story about what I’ve learned in the process.Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read MoreTorchquad: Python Library for Numerical Integration With GPU Acceleration
A comprehensive, easy-to-follow exploration of Torchquad’s revolutionary GPU-accelerated numerical integration. Integrate 10x faster than any other library in PythonPhoto by Emile Perron on UnsplashIn the realm of modern science and engineering, integration plays a pivotal role. It is the foundation of many calculations, from solving complex differential equations to computing areas under
Read MoreOptimizing Heat Transfer in a 2D Grid Simulation’s Runtime Using CUDA: A Parallel Programming Study
Solutions you can apply to similar parallelization problemsPhoto by David von Diemar on UnsplashIn this article, I will discuss a simple, hands-on approach to optimizing the runtime of an interactive algorithm — the Jacobi method. More specifically, we’ll look at ways to apply it to solve the Laplace Equation for Heat Transfer.For that,
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