A Seattle-based company has announced that its computer program ‘Semantic Scholar’ has mapped the citations of 2.5 million neuroscience articles after reading them, and also ranked each author’s influence. The company plans to use Semantic Scholar to read 20 million papers by next year. This is artificial intelligence in its scholarly avatar. #vr #ai
Because of Google’s negligence, tech support scammers are now able to trick users into thinking that their computers are infected with malware “Virus Trojan.worm! 055BCCAC9FEC”. The ordeal begins with a frozen Chrome browser. Google is yet to release a patch for this 2-year old vulnerability. #security
The way you use your fingers on your smartphone’s touchscreen can provide ways for attackers to access your passwords and PINs. Wi-fi signals give away a lot of information which can be analyzed and monitored by attackers without the user’s knowledge. This makes for one scary reading. #security
If you are a Linux user, you will be pleased to learn that Red Hat has now decided that it is all right for Fedora to enable MP3 decoding functionality. Encoding functionality is still not available but even decoding has been eagerly awaited by a number of Fedora users. #software
LinkedIn’s troubles in Russia seem to be getting deeper. A Russian court ruled that LinkedIn broke a law that states that personal data of Russian citizens should be stored only on servers located in Russia. However, LinkedIn is allowed to appeal this ruling. #social
