Raumschiffe, die gar nicht in Formation fliegen, kein fließendes Wasser oder schlicht die geringere Grafikqualität: In Großbritannien hat sich die Werbeaufsichtsorganisation eingeschaltet, da No Man’s Sky wegen Screenshots und Trailern in der Kritik steht. (No Man's Sky, Steam)
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Marissa Mayer verteilte bei Yahoo kostenfreie iPhones und teures Catering – an der Sicherheit wurde aber offenbar gespart. Außerdem bezweifelt eine Sicherheitsfirma, dass Yahoo wirklich von einem staatlichen Akteur gehackt wurde. (Yahoo, Yahoo Mail)
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Nie wieder wenden: Der neue Schwerlastkipper von Komatsu fährt vorwärts und rückwärts gleichermaßen gut. Grund ist, dass er keinen Fahrer hat. Der Laster fährt sich selbst. (Autonomes Fahren, Roboter)
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Amazon will noch in diesem Jahr einen neuen Startbildschirm für seine Fire-TV-Geräte veröffentlichen. Das wurde im Rahmen der Vorstellung eines neuen Fire TV Sticks bekannt, der die erste Gerätegeneration ablöst, vorerst aber nicht für Deutschland geplant ist. (Fire TV, Amazon)
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Der Musikstreamingdienst Spotify plant einem Medienbericht zufolge die Übernahme des Konkurrenten Soundcloud. Mit der Akquisition könnte Spotify den Abstand zu Apple Music vergrößern. (Soundcloud, #Cloud Computing)
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Es klingt wie ein Computerspiel oder ein Hackerfilm, ist aber leider Realität: Die Ampelanlagen eines deutschen Herstellers lassen sich fernsteuern. Obwohl das Unternehmen seit Monaten Kenntnis davon hat, ist bislang nichts geschehen. (Sicherheitslücke, Fernwartung)
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Volkswagen hat mit dem VW ID ein Konzeptfahrzeug vorgestellt, das mit einer Akkuladung 400 bis 600 Kilometer weit fahren soll und mit einem 170-PS-Elektromotor angetrieben wird. 2020 soll das Elektroauto in Serie gehen. (VW, GreenIT)
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Die Deutsche Bahn will ab dem 1. Oktober bei Nutzern von Online- oder Handytickets zusätzlich zur Bahncard einen amtlichen Ausweis sehen. (Deutsche Bahn, E-Personalausweis)
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed Google's search engine was biased in burying bad news about his rival Hillary Clinton.
Trump made the comment at a rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa, after mentioning a Google poll, which he said he was leading “despite the fact that Google&039;s search engine was suppressing the bad news about Hillary Clinton. How about that.”
Trump did not elaborate on what “bad news” he believed was being suppressed, though he typically appends “crooked” to Clinton&039;s first name and has made her private email server a central talking point of his campaign.
Google did not immediately respond to a BuzzFeed News request for comment on the Republican nominee&039;s latest allegation.
Though his claim that Google stacked the deck against him appears to be new, Trump has also repeatedly complained that the electoral system is, or could be, “rigged” against him. This summer he repeatedly warned of voter fraud, and put out a call for “observers” to watch polling places and safeguard against cheating.
After Monday&039;s debate, Trump also claimed that his microphone was faulty and speculated that the alleged problem could have been intentional.
LINK: Trump Seeks Volunteer “Observers” To Stop Clinton From “Rigging” The Election
LINK: Trump Defends His “Rigged” Election Claim: “I Just Hear Things, And I Just Feel It”
Quelle: <a href="Trump Claims Google Suppressed Bad News About Hillary Clinton“>BuzzFeed
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Less than a week after high-ranking lawmakers accused Russian intelligence agencies of trying to interfere with the presidential election, US officials have tried to offer a reassuring response: a cyberattack, they say, couldn’t change the outcome of the presidential election.
“I’m here to communicate one message — that message is that our elections are secure,” said Thomas Hicks, the chairman of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), during a Congressional hearing Wednesday on election cybersecurity. Hicks said that our locally run election process, with each state managing its own systems, and comprising over 9,000 jurisdictions, presents an overwhelming obstacle to any would-be hacker.
Although hackers breached online election databases in Arizona and Illinois recently, Hicks stressed the difference between websites and voting systems. No voting machines in use are connected to the internet, he said. Hicks added that the attack on state systems served as a wake up call. “Instead of causing a national crisis, the breaches notified election officials across the country that they should be on high alert,” he said.
The EAC and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have been tasked with providing cybersecurity resources and guidance to state governments after the hacks in Arizona and Illinois, and the Democratic National Committee’s email hack in July.
“We have confidence in the overall integrity of our electoral system because our voting infrastructure is fundamentally resilient.”
Andy Ozment, a top DHS cybersecurity official, agreed that our decentralized election system protects against outside interference. “We have confidence in the overall integrity of our electoral system because our voting infrastructure is fundamentally resilient,” he said during the same hearing.
Ozment acknowledged that parts of the US electoral system, just like any digital technology, are vulnerable to tampering. But “we have no indication that adversaries are planning cyber operations against US election infrastructure that would change the outcome of the election in November,” he said.
Several lawmakers referenced how Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam Schiff had publicly accused Russia of engaging in sustained efforts to influence the US election, but Ozment declined to comment. No member of the executive branch has confirmed that Russian agents perpetrated the hacks, nor have they pinned the attacks on any other entity.
“Attacks against voting machines are unlikely to have widespread impact… However, attacks or malfunctions that could undermine public confidence are much easier.”
Despite Ozment and Hicks’ reassurances, experts during the hearing pointed to the glaring security flaws tied to dangerously outdated voting equipment that’s still used across the country, as well as paperless voting machines.
Andrew Appel, a computer science professor at Princeton University, urged election officials to abandon touchscreen machines that produce no paper record. This protects not only against deliberate and malicious interference, but also miscalibration and software bugs, he said during the hearing. Appel has demonstrated how it's possible to install a vote-stealing program onto a voting machine in 7 minutes using just a screwdriver.
“As the equipment gets older, we are more likely to see failures,” said Lawrence Norden, the deputy director of the democracy program for the Brennan Center for Justice and co-author of a recent study that catalogued the alarming state of US voting machines.
Norden doubts that a Kremlin-hatched election scheme could determine who ends up in the White House. But he expressed a different concern, echoing lawmakers like Feinstein and Schiff: Rather than manipulating vote tallies, tampering with voting machines could sow distrust in the electoral process.
“Attempted attacks against voting machines are highly unlikely to have widespread impact on vote totals this November,” he said. “However, attacks or malfunctions that could undermine public confidence are much easier.”
Quelle: <a href="Amid Fears Of Russian Hacks, Officials Say The US Election Is Secure“>BuzzFeed
