August 2019 – Page 89 – news.buyenne.com

Sprachsteuerung: Das erleben Mitarbeiter beim Abhören von Siri-Mitschnitten

Wie läuft es ab, für Apple Siris Sprachaufnahmen auszuwerten? In zwei Berichten beschreiben Mitarbeiter ihren Arbeitsalltag beim Anhören von Siri-Mitschnitten. (Siri, Apple)

Code-Hoster: Neue Github CI-Funktion teilt sich Code mit Microsoft Azure

Der Codehoster Github bietet nun umfangreichere Möglichkeiten für Continuous Integration an. Dabei teilt sich Github erstmals Code mit einem ähnlichen Microsoft-Produkt. (Github, Microsoft)

Double Dragon: APT41 soll für Staat und eigenen Geldbeutel hacken

Spionage auf der einen, finanzielles Eigeninteresse auf der anderen: Die Gruppe APT 41 soll nicht nur für den chinesischen Staat hacken . Das behauptet das IT-Sicherheitsunternehmen Fireeye in einem neuen Bericht. (Hacker, Malware)

Quartalsbericht: Uber erwirtschaftet 5,23 Milliarden US-Dollar Verlust

Uber hat den höchsten Quartalsverlust in der Unternehmensgeschichte ausgewiesen. Der Umsatz wächst zugleich so gering wie noch nie zuvor. (Uber, Börse)

Probefahrt mit Mercedes EQC: Ein SUV mit viel Wumms und wenig Bodenfreiheit

Mit dem EQC bietet nun auch Mercedes ein vollelektrisch angetriebenes SUV an. Golem.de hat auf einer Probefahrt getestet, ob das Elektroauto mit Audis E-Tron mithalten kann. Ein Erfahrungsbericht von Friedhelm Greis (Mercedes Benz, Technologie)

UI-Framework: Erste Pläne für Qt 6 vorgestellt

Die kommende Version 6 des UI-Frameworks Qt soll mehr Evolution als Revolution werden. Wichtige Baustellen werden eine Runderneuerung von QML und der Fokus auf neue Grafikschnittstellen sein. (Qt, API)

Belohnungen: Apple dehnt Bug-Bounty-Programm deutlich aus

Apple öffnet sich der Sicherheitszene und lobt ein umfangreiches Programm für das Entdecken von Sicherheitslücken bei seinen Betriebssystemen aus. Dazu wird auch eine Spezialversion des iPhones angeboten. (Black Hat, Apple)

ID.3: VW erwartet Preisgleichheit von Verbrenner- und Elektroautos

Volkswagens Strategiemanager Reinhard Fischer erwartet, dass Elektroautos bald genauso viel kosten wie Verbrennerfahrzeuge. Dann könnten viele Verbraucher auf Elektroautos umsteigen. (Elektroauto, Technologie)

Streaming Media Consumption Doubles in a Year, New Data

Video optimisation and analytics firm Conviva has released new data that shows streaming viewing hours in the second quarter of 2019 (ending June 30) grew 130% from a year ago.

Measuring viewing figures for over-the-top video distribution, that is the distribution of video content over the Internet that bypasses cable, broadcast and satellite television platforms, Conviva found tremendous growth for streaming.

It was helped by the number of Internet-connected TVs, which grew by 143%. This was largely driven by the growth of Roku devices (173%), which now accounts for 43% of connected TV viewing.

In a separate announcement, Roku now has more than 30 million subscribers with total revenue up 59%.

"The industry-wide shift to streaming is accelerating," Roku founder/CEO Anthony Wood and CFO Steve Louden wrote in the shareholder letter.

The adoption of Amazon Fire TV devices also grew significantly, up 145% to become 18% of all connected TV viewing. Apple TV now accounts for 10% of all connected TV viewing, also up from last year.

Conviva also found that ad-supported content was gaining in popularity, but it remained a "silent engagement killer". Viewership drops significantly when the ad was 20 seconds or more, despite the average ad length now being 24.87 seconds.

"The TV industry of yesterday was built on inflexible standards, antiquated measurement, and limited data. Streaming offers the vast potential of a rapidly maturing market, flexibility, targeting, and data to understand the audience like never before," the report stated.

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Blogger says she got an injunction for a post published five days earlier

Post that reported 300,000 unsecured records is also subject of a criminal complaint.

The blogger behind a widely followed data-breach reporting service said an online counseling service has obtained an injunction barring her from publishing an article that went live five days earlier. The blogger says her article is also the subject of a criminal complaint.

The August 1 post on DataBreaches.net reported that a misconfigured Amazon Web Services bucket exposed more than 300,000 records relating to people who sought counseling-related services from 1to1Help. Writing under the pseudonym "Dissent," the blogger said she first notified the company of the exposure on June 10. More than two weeks later, when the data still hadn't been taken down, she said she began contacting multinational companies that had contracted with 1to1Help to notify them that their employees' information was exposed. The reported also regularly notified parties of her deadline for publishing.

On July 4, the blogger reported, she finally received a response from a 1to1Help lawyer. The lawyer said the exposed data came from an archive that was older than five years. For the past three years, the lawyer said in a statement, the company encrypted sensitive data in a way that prevented even company administrators from accessing it. "This has data which is gathered from our website usage such as articles read, quizzes taken, various self-help resources used and only includes a small percentage of counselling [sic] information from the partial data," the lawyer added.

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