DTNS 3286 – A Tidal Wave of Security News

With recent stories covering data security issues from cellphone location data tracking to PGP and S/MIME vulnerabilities we have Shannon Morse here to break it all down and give us an infosec perspective.

Starring Sarah Lane, Shannon Morse, Roger Chang and Len Peralta.

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Today in Tech History – – May 18, 2018

1923 – The first patent application for the rotary-dial telephone was submitted in France by Antoine Barnay.

http://books.google.com/books?id=JTYPKxug49IC&pg=PA252&lpg=PA252&dq=Antoine+Barnay+1923&source=bl&ots=C6QeWA_CR4&sig=mjX1XffckJdqC_f1Uj85C7o2pQM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Bu-RT6jEAYWMigLVwLHRDQ&ved=0CB8Q6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=Antoine%20Barnay%201923&f=false

1953 – Jackie Cochran took off from Rogers Dry Lake, California piloting an F-86 Sabre plane and reached averaged speeds of 652.337 miles per hour, becoming the first woman to break the sound barrier.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/today-in-history-jackie-cochran-breaks-the-sound-barrier-130780022/?no-ist

1969 – Apollo 10 launched, going on to complete all the stages of a moon landing mission without landing on the Moon. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford descended in the Lunar Module to within 15KM of the lunar surface.

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-10/apollo-10.html

1998 – The United States Department of Justice and twenty US states filed civil actions against Microsoft, alleging the company abused monopoly power regarding operating system and Web browser sales.

https://www.justice.gov/archive/atr/public/press_releases/1998/1764.htm

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 18, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Apple’s HomePod speaker sales are only 6% of global market, Fortnite coming to Android this summer, Cambridge Analytica files for bankruptcy.

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DTNS 3285 – All Bets are On

Federal laws restricting Sports Gambling in the United States have been struck down by the Supreme Court. Will this start a new gold rush into online gambling as companies take advantage and who will be the winners and the losers?

Starring Sarah Lane, Justin Robert Young, and Roger Chang.

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Today in Tech History – – May 17, 2018

1902 – While going through objects recovered by divers near Antikythera off the coast of Greece, archaeologist Valerois Stais discovered a strange device with gear-wheels inside. The Antikythera mechanism has been puzzling investigators for more than a hundred years.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/05/17/antikythera-mechanism-discovered-115-years-ago/

1939 – The National Broadcasting Company televised the first sporting event, the second game of a doubleheader baseball game between Columbia and Princeton. About 400 TV sets were capable of receiving the broadcast. Princeton won 2-1 in the 10th.

http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=3738874

1943 – The US Army and the University of Pennsylvania signed a contract to develop ENIAC. It was planned to use vacuum tubes and calculate ballistic firing tables.

http://www.nww2m.com/2013/05/70th-anniversary-eniac-contract-signed/

1954 – The first shovel load of earth was dug on the Meyrin site of the first CERN Laboratory building in Geneva.

https://timeline.web.cern.ch/timelines/The-history-of-CERN

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 17, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500YouTube Red splits into YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, US Senate votes in favor of net neutrality, questions arise about Google Duplex status.

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DTNS 3284 – The Student has become the Cheater

Cheating on exams has been constant thorn in the side of schools and the halls of higher education. But with smart phones, wearables and the internet cheating has become so ubiquitous some schools are taking drastic action to limit student access to personal technology. Will this help stem the tide or does the problem call for new ideas and approaches to testing students.

Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson and Roger Chang.

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Today in Tech History – – May 16, 2018

1888 – Emile Berliner demonstrated his flat disc audio recording and reproduction in a lecture he gave to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, which was printed in the institute’s Journal (vol. 125, no. 60).

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/berlhtml/berlgramo.html

1946 – At the meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE, now IEEE) in San Francisco, Jack Mullin demonstrated the world’s first professional-quality tape recorded in the US.

http://www.pavekmuseum.org/jmullin.html

1960 – While working at the Hughes Research Laboratories of the Hughes Aircraft company in Malibu, California, physicist Theodore Maiman used an artificial ruby to create the first laser.

http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201005/physicshistory.cfm

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Daily Tech Headlines – May 16, 2018

DTH_CoverArt_1500x1500Microsoft to debut lower-cost Surface tablets, Instagram will launch a time spent feature, Whole Foods now offering discounts to Amazon Prime customers.

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