Mycroft is the world’s first open source assistant.

Mycroft runs anywhere – on a desktop computer, inside an automobile, or on a Raspberry Pi. This is open source software which can be freely remixed, extended, and improved. Mycroft may be used in anything from a science project to an enterprise software application.

https://mycroft.ai

News
https://mycroft.ai/blog

Mycroft skills
https://mycroftai.github.io/mycroft-skills

Mimic TTS
Mycroft’s Mimic Text to Speech technology. Mimic is now a deep learning based Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine trained on audio recordings from a single speaker.
https://mycroft.ai/blog/mimic-2-is-live

https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic2


Sources
https://github.com/MycroftAI

Community
https://community.mycroft.ai

Telegram
https://t.iss.one/mycroft_ai


📡 @NoGoolag
#mycroft #assistant #voice #speech #tts

Facebook reveals Portal video-calling devices, assures public they were 'built with privacy' in mind 😂

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/10/08/facebook-portal-video-calling-device/

Goodbye to Google+

The company has just announced in an official statement, as part of a new initiative called Project Strobe, the social network will cease each and every one of its functions aimed at users. One of the reasons why this decision has been taken, is a security breach this spring in the platform, the data of half a million users in a period that goes from 2015 to March 2018 has been compromised.

https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe

#g+ #google+ #googleplus

Google Says Social Network Bug Exposed Private Data

Google announced Monday it is shutting down the consumer version of its online social network after fixing a bug exposing private data in as many as 500,000 accounts.
The US internet giant said it will "sunset" the Google+ social network for consumers, which failed to gain meaningful traction after being launched in 2011 as a challenge to Facebook.
read more (https://www.securityweek.com/google-says-social-network-bug-exposed-private-data)

'THE GOOD CENSOR': Leaked Google Briefing Admits Abandonment of Free Speech for 'Safety And Civility'
https://bit.ly/2yBQPxh

r/conspiracy - 'THE GOOD CENSOR': Leaked Google Briefing Admits Abandonment of Free Speech for 'Safety And Civility'
5 votes and 4 comments so far on Reddit

https://www.portent.com/blog/random/when-google-dies.htm

Lol, worth a read.

Google Hardens Android Kernel

Google this week revealed that Android’s kernel is becoming more resilient to code reuse attacks, courtesy of implemented support for LLVM’s Control Flow Integrity (CFI).
read more (https://www.securityweek.com/google-hardens-android-kernel)

Not All Multifactor Authentication Is Created Equal
https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/authentication/not-all-multifactor-authentication-is-created-equal/a/d-id/1332991?_mc=rss_x_drr_edt_aud_dr_x_x-rss-simple

Users should be aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the various MFA methods.

Credit to Marc Al Hames

Google faces mounting pressure from Congress over Google+ privacy flaw
WTF, Google not disclose to public about their finding vulnerability in Google+ API 😡😡😡

Contact details, birth dates, search and location history: What hackers stole from millions of Facebook users | tech | Hindustan Times
https://m.hindustantimes.com/tech/contact-details-birth-dates-search-and-location-history-what-hackers-stole-from-millions-of-facebook-users/story-6lvE770TlyBsqQprNBd2uN.html

Facebook originally estimated that up to 50 million users had their information exposed, but that number has since dropped down to around 30 million. Of that number, 15 million users had their name and contact info (phone number and/or email) compromised while another 14 million lost that and their gender, Facebook username, location, language, relationship status, hometown, religion, current area of residence, birthdate, devices used to access Facebook, work, education, and more.

For the remaining 1 million, Facebook says that no information was compromised.

This attack did not affect Facebook Messenger, Messenger Kids, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Workplace, Pages, payments, any third-party apps, or developer/advertising accounts.

👁‍🗨webkay👁‍🗨
This is a demonstration of all the data your browser knows about you. All this data can be accessed by any website without asking you for any permission.
Most of the data points are educated guesses and not considered to be accurate.
⏭ HERE (https://webkay.robinlinus.com/)

👁‍🗨Panopticlick👁‍🗨
When you visit a website, online trackers and the site itself may be able to identify you – even if you’ve installed software to protect yourself. It’s possible to configure your browser to thwart tracking, but many people don’t know how.
⏭ HERE (https://panopticlick.eff.org/)