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Shenzhen is giving local residents 10M yuan worth of China's new sovereign digital currency through a lottery, to test and promote the digital yuan (South China Morning Post)

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Shenzhen is giving local residents 10M yuan worth of China's new sovereign digital currency through a lottery, to test and promote the digital yuan  —  Winners will be announced on Sunday and can receive their digital ‘red packet’ by opening an e-wallet via official app The payouts can be used …

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Rapper Logic drops $220k on rare Pokemon card - CNET

In his defense, it was for a totally sweet first-edition Charizard. You know the one.

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AI Can Help Diagnose Some Illnesses—if Your Country Is Rich

Algorithms for detecting eye diseases are mostly trained on patients in the US, Europe, and China. This can make the tools ineffective for other racial groups and countries.

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Will iPhone 12 have Touch ID so we can unlock our phones with masks on? Probably not - CNET

The button made an appearance on the new iPad Air, making it easier to unlock the device without removing a mask for Face Unlock.

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SNL mocks Mike Pence debate fly with buzzy Jeff Goldblum homage - CNET

Jim Carrey's Joe Biden jumps into a teleporter and well, you know the rest.

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Election result delays mean “the system is working” says cybersecurity chief

With an unprecedented number of Americans voting by mail this year, it may take longer than normal for results to come in this Election Day—including even unofficial results. Yet President Donald Trump’s disinformation campaign about election security continues to falsely suggest that any “delay” would be the result of fraud.

But government officials charged with protecting the election made it clear that slower-than-usual results should be totally expected.

“We are likely to see delays in the processing of the election,” says Brandon Wales, the executive director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA. “The truth is that nothing about this process changes when the election will be officially done.”

We may not have results on election night… [but] it doesn’t mean the process has been compromised, it means the system is working.”

“Everything you hear on election day has always been unofficial results,” he adds. “The vote isn’t done until the election is certified by that state’s chief election official, which often comes several weeks after the election. Even the unofficial results might not be available on election night in some places, including in crucial swing states, so we may not have results on election night. We encourage people to not be concerned about that. That is normal. It doesn’t mean the process has been compromised, it means the system is working. Local and state officials are professionals. Let them do their jobs.”

The comments, which were made during MIT Technology Review’s Spotlight On Cybersecurity event, outline the challenge faced during this year’s election. 

The Election Project, a running tally of early voting activity, shows that over 2.5 million Americans have already returned mail in ballots. Counting them can take longer than in-person votes because of security measures like verifying signatures and processing the outer and secrecy envelopes. Add to that the fact that counting often starts late and it can push back the expected timeline for results. Mail ballots are still secure and fraud is extremely rare, contrary to the president repeatedly lying about the subject.

But we’re not out of the woods yet

If America doesn’t get results on election day, a storm of disinformation is likely to be kicked up in an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the vote. Federal officials, like Wales, have said that foreign actors like Russia could insert extra chaos at a delicate time for American democracy.

“I think our role is, first, trying to correct election disinformation,” Wales said.

In one recent example, a Russian news site reported that a Michigan voter database was hacked, and news began to spread quickly. CISA—and journalists—corrected the record: All the information that had been apparently “stolen” was actually already publicly available, like most state voter rolls are. There was in fact, no compromise of the system, despite word of an attack spreading like a small wildfire. 

On Election Day, though, the threat is a much bigger blaze.

While the threat of foreign disinformation is serious, it’s also simpler to deal with than the almost-guaranteed domestic disinformation. The president has effectively promised that he will claim the election is stolen if he is losing or if results are not immediately reported.

What is the playbook for Wales when the malicious actor is American rather than foreign?

“There certainly is a difference in what the United States government can do because under the First Amendment people have freedom of speech,” he said. “Social media companies can take action under their terms of service. CISA’s role doesn’t change. Our role is to get to the American people and provide them the right way to evaluate information they’re seeing. Ultimately we can do that whether disinformation comes from foreign or domestic sources.” 

CISA’s plan, whether disinformation comes from abroad or home, is to point Americans to trusted sources.

“In almost all cases,” Wales explains, “that’s likely to be state and local election officials who are the professionals who run these elections and who have a vested interest in making sure votes are counted correctly.”

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A look at the key characteristics of the Julia programming language, as scientists increasingly adopt the language for tackling large-scale numerical problems (Lee Phillips/Ars Technica)

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A look at the key characteristics of the Julia programming language, as scientists increasingly adopt the language for tackling large-scale numerical problems  —  Fortran has ruled scientific computing, but Julia emerged for large-scale numerical work.  —  I've been running into a lot of happy and excited scientists lately.

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HomeWAV, a video visitation provider used by prisons across the US, exposed private calls of inmates with their families and attorneys, on an unprotected server (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
HomeWAV, a video visitation provider used by prisons across the US, exposed private calls of inmates with their families and attorneys, on an unprotected server  —  Thousands of calls were spilling from an unprotected server.  —  Fearing the spread of coronavirus, jails and prisons remain on lockdown.

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On The Haunting of Bly Manor set: This is how you build a haunted house - CNET

Bly Manor's set designer Patricio Farrell talks about making a spooky structure from scratch.

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Tuber browser, which let Chinese users register and access banned services like YouTube, has been blocked and removed from China's third-party Android stores (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Tuber browser, which let Chinese users register and access banned services like YouTube, has been blocked and removed from China's third-party Android stores  —  - Service required registration with mobile phone numbers  —  An app backed by Chinese cybersecurity giant 360 Security Technology Inc …

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Flow, a blockchain for non-fungible tokens built by CryptoKitties's creator Dapper Labs, raises $18M in a token sale (Mathew Di Salvo/Decrypt)

Mathew Di Salvo / Decrypt:
Flow, a blockchain for non-fungible tokens built by CryptoKitties's creator Dapper Labs, raises $18M in a token sale  —  The creators of CryptoKitties are creating a new place to store crypto collectibles.  —  In brief  — Flow, a blockchain built for the entertainment industry, has raised $18 million in a public token sale.

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Airkit, a low-code customer engagement service for DTC businesses, comes out of stealth with $28M in funding from Accel, Emergence, and Salesforce Ventures (Igor Bosilkovski/Forbes)

Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes:
Airkit, a low-code customer engagement service for DTC businesses, comes out of stealth with $28M in funding from Accel, Emergence, and Salesforce Ventures  —  Low-code platform Airkit designed to improve customer engagement announced today that it is coming out of stealth …

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Digital mental health subscription service Cerebral raises $35M Series A led by Oak HC/FT (Laura Lovett/MobiHealthNews)

Laura Lovett / MobiHealthNews:
Digital mental health subscription service Cerebral raises $35M Series A led by Oak HC/FT  —  The startup said that the new funding will go towards expanding into all 50 states.  —  Digital mental health company Cerebral announced that it closed its Series A funding round with $35 million.

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We may know what iPhone 12 will look like: All the design clues, from colors to sizes - CNET

A refreshed design, attractive new color and bigger sizes -- the iPhone 12 is almost here.

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Onapsis, which provides cybersecurity and compliance services for SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce, raises $55M Series D, bringing its total raised to $117M (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek)

Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek:
Onapsis, which provides cybersecurity and compliance services for SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce, raises $55M Series D, bringing its total raised to $117M  —  Onapsis, a Boston-based company that provides cybersecurity and compliance solutions for mission-critical applications …

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US Cyber Command says it has temporarily disrupted the Trickbot botnet, an army of 1M+ hijacked computers run by Russian-speaking criminals, ahead of elections (Ellen Nakashima/Washington Post)

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
US Cyber Command says it has temporarily disrupted the Trickbot botnet, an army of 1M+ hijacked computers run by Russian-speaking criminals, ahead of elections  —  In recent weeks, the U.S. military has mounted an operation to temporarily disrupt what is described as the world's largest botnet …

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An FBI "Fly Team" was sent to "exploit" Portland protesters' phones to map left-wing protest networks, as suggested by emails sourced by public records request (Mattathias Schwartz/The New York Review ...)

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An FBI “Fly Team” was sent to “exploit” Portland protesters' phones to map left-wing protest networks, as suggested by emails sourced by public records request  —  The FBI's Washington, D.C., headquarters sent agents from its “Fly Team,” an elite counterterrorism unit …

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Amazon has canceled Crucible, its free-to-play multiplayer shooter game, after putting it back in closed beta in July amid negative reviews (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Amazon has canceled Crucible, its free-to-play multiplayer shooter game, after putting it back in closed beta in July amid negative reviews  —  The game was put back into closed beta in July  —  Amazon has officially canceled Crucible, its free-to-play multiplayer shooter.

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Alibaba's stock jumped 42% this year, giving it a market value above $800B, as the pandemic accelerates China's rapid embrace of online commerce (Chong Koh Ping/Wall Street Journal)

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Alibaba's stock jumped 42% this year, giving it a market value above $800B, as the pandemic accelerates China's rapid embrace of online commerce  —  Recent rally cements company's position as one of the world's most valuable technology companies  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. 's stock …

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