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Sounds Like Joe Biden Will Have to Leave His Peloton Bike Behind to Avoid Hacking

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a close up of a bicycle: Security risks from hacking are predicaments that President-elect Joe Biden and his famed Peloton bike face as he transitions into the White House next week.

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Security risks from hacking are predicaments that President-elect Joe Biden and his famed Peloton bike face as he transitions into the White House next week.

Back in the day, somewhere in mid-20th century time, people thought that in the year 2000 we would be driving flying cars. Jet packs would be the norm. You know, cool stuff like that. That vision… didn’t quite happen, but that doesn’t mean technology hasn’t made giant leaps. We have little computers in our pockets that can access practically any information in the world. We can order stuff offline and have it shipped to us day-of. We can also work out on a trendy smart bike at home, so long as someone doesn’t hack it, causing a national security threat that tugs at the somewhat frayed seams of our ever-fragile democracy.



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That seems to be the predicament that President-elect Joe Biden and his famed Peloton bike currently face as he makes his transition into the White House next week. As CNN reports, “Past presidents’ high-tech gadgets have typically required security vetting and retrofitting—especially when they connect to the internet or cell networks.” While that has worked in the past with things like the golf simulator Trump had installed, the Peloton may prove to be a bit trickier.

Speaking with Popular Mechanics, Max Kilger, Ph.D., director of the Data Analytics Program and associate professor in practice at the University of Texas at San Antonio, said, “If you really want that Peloton to be secure, you yank out the camera, you yank out the microphone, and you yank out the networking equipment.” For those keeping score, that basically leaves you with one of these bad boys:



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We love a retro look. But that also means Biden’s favorite instructor won’t be able to inspire him with invasively personal sentiments like this one:

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AWS Announces the Next Version of Amazon Aurora Serverless, a New Capability that Makes it Easier to Migrate from SQL Server to Amazon Aurora, and an Open Source Project to Help More Organizations Leave SQL Server for PostgreSQL

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SEATTLE–()–Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the next version of Aurora Serverless, as well as a new capability that makes it easier for customers to migrate from SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and a new open source project that helps even more organizations migrate off legacy databases to open source alternatives. For customers that don’t want to deal with the work associated with self-managing database capacity, Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 scales to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of a second, delivering up to 90% cost savings compared to provisioning for peak capacity. AWS also announced Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, a new capability for Amazon Aurora that allows customers to run SQL Server applications directly on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with little to no code changes. Finally, AWS shared its plans to open source Babelfish for PostgreSQL under the permissive Apache 2.0 license and make it available on GitHub. Together these innovations make Amazon Aurora even more attractive for a wide range of workloads, and bring the benefits of Amazon Aurora and PostgreSQL to more organizations. To get started, visit https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/

Old-guard, legacy databases that have been developed and used for many decades typically require a well-trained and funded support staff to run and manage them. These commercial databases offer high performance and advanced availability features, but are expensive, complex to manage, and have high lock-in. Moreover, customers that are self-managing commercial databases are often at the mercy of old-guard database vendors and the brazen tricks they play, such as imposing arbitrary and punitive licensing terms. Today, more than a hundred thousand customers are choosing to run their database workloads on Amazon Aurora because it delivers the performance and availability of the highest-grade commercial databases at one tenth of the cost, making it the fastest-growing service in AWS history. In total, more than 350,000 databases have been migrated to AWS using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS). Today’s…

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Trump administration gives TikTok 45 days to sell to Microsoft or leave US [Updated]

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TikTok's US operations may soon be part of every cool teen's favorite code conglomerate, Microsoft.

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After weeks of rumor and speculation, the Trump administration this weekend gave TikTok’s parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, 45 days to sell off the social media sensation or else stop operating in the United States—and Microsoft looks to be the buyer.

Microsoft on Sunday confirmed what several media outlets had been speculating since Friday, saying it is in talks to buy TikTok’s operations in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and may also invite other US investors to take minority stakes in the deal.

“Microsoft will move quickly to pursue discussions with TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, in a matter of weeks, and in any event completing these discussions no later than September 15, 2020,” the company said in a corporate blog post. “During this process, Microsoft looks forward to continuing dialogue with the United States Government, including with the President.”

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Update your Google Chrome browser now: New exploit could leave you open to hacks – Digital Trends

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  1. Update your Google Chrome browser now: New exploit could leave you open to hacks  Digital Trends
  2. Google revealed a security flaw on Halloween, so maybe update Chrome now  Mashable
  3. Update your browser immediately as Google urgently patch two new Chrome Zero-day exploits  MSPoweruser
  4. Google Chrome Emergency Update Issued To Counter ‘High Severity’ Zero-Day Exploit Actively Used In Operation WizardOpium  Appuals
  5. On Halloween night, Google discloses Chrome zero-day exploited in the wild  ZDNet
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