Collaborate Disseminate
Sony said this week it will begin pressing vinyl records again, ending an almost three-decade hiatus. A dramatic increase in demand for vinyl music in recent years prompted the move, the company said. From a report: After a 28-year hiatus, Sony announc… Continue reading Sony Will Start Pressing Vinyl Records After 28-Year Hiatus
An anonymous reader writes: PlayStation Network (PSN) users in the UK who’ve paid via PayPal have had their accounts suspended. ‘Thousands’ of users this week received an automatic refund for purchases they made with the US money transfer service. Acco… Continue reading Sony Suspends Thousands Of PlayStation Network Accounts in UK, Allegedly Because Of Issue With PayPal
When Microsoft announced its blockbuster plans to make Minecraft cross-platform compatible, the PlayStation 4 was notably absent from the list.
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Anticipating that North Korea will continue to use the Lazarus Group to advance the dictatorship’s military and strategic objectives, U.S. authorities issued a report Tuesday identifying new details on the tools and infrastructure used by North Korea’s digital army. The technical alert, produced by the Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency and Response Team and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, identified with “high confidence” IP addresses and malware called DeltaCharlie that the hacking group allegedly uses to manage its botnet infrastructure. The report includes numerous indicators of compromise meant to aid defenders targeted by the group. Lazarus, which the new report refers to as HIDDEN COBRA, has been implicated in a series of multibillion-dollar bank thefts across 18 countries as well as attacks against “media, aerospace, financial, and critical infrastructure sectors in the United States and globally.” “Tools and capabilities used by HIDDEN COBRA actors include DDoS botnets, keyloggers, remote access tools […]
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Sony recently unveiled Toio, an educational robotics toy for young programmers. We all know Sony as an electronics giant, but they do dabble in robotics from time to time. The AIBO dog family is probably their most famous creation, though there is also QRIO, a bipedal humanoid, and on the stranger side, the Rolly.
Toio consists of two small cube robots which roll around the desktop. You can control them with handheld rings, or run programs on them. The robots are charged by a base station, which also has a cartridge slot. Sony is marketing this as an ecosystem that …read more
Even as Sony’s CEO Kazuo Hirai has done a remarkable job over the past five years — taking bold decisions on the areas the company should be focusing on, and cutting efforts on those that aren’t working — his company desperately needs a fresh hit to … Continue reading ‘Sony Needs a Fresh Hit’
What DefinedCrowd offers isn’t particularly easily to distill into a quick elevator pitch. Taking the stage today as part of the Disrupt New York Battlefield, the Washington state-based company deals in complex concepts of machine learning, providing rich data sets for speech and natural language processing systems. Read More Continue reading DefinedCrowd is teaching machines to better understand the complexities of language
Office-supply chain Staples, having recovered from a point-of-sale hack affecting 1.16 million credit and debit cards two years ago, has hired its first-ever chief information security officer. The new CISO, Brett Wahlin, had held the same position at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise since 2013. His resume includes other high-profile positions in and out of government. He started his career as a counterintelligence agent in the U.S. Army and at one point was CISO at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He also served as chief security office at McAfee from 2009-11 and then CSO at Sony Network Entertainment until 2013. He joined Sony right after a headline-grabbing intrusion against the PlayStation network that led to the theft of personal information from 77 million accounts. HPE was part of a data breach in October 2016 when when an employee’s laptop was compromised. The machine contained the names and Social Security numbers of 134,386 current and former U.S. Navy personnel and was accessed by “unknown […]
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Sony keeps rocking the mirrorless world. The post Sony’s New Mirrorless Camera Is Its Most Beastly Shooter Yet appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Sony’s New Mirrorless Camera Is Its Most Beastly Shooter Yet
The gaming hardware designer, known for both cheap and state-of-the-art peripherals, takes a final bow. Continue reading Mad Catz Couldn’t Change Quickly Enough to Save Itself
