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“We have been testing this feature in a handful of cities across the U.S.,” says Khosrowshahi, as he emphasizes that early testing shows verified riders not only receive higher ratings and tip more, but also generate fewer complaints from drivers.
From: Prove launches user verification tool | Biometric Update.
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To help combat the fraudsters, Starling Bank has launched the Safe Phrases campaign, in support of the government’s Stop! Think Fraud campaign, encouraging the public to agree a ‘Safe Phrase’ with their close friends and family that no one else knows, to allow them to verify that they are really speaking to them.
My safe phrase is “I’ll keep them talking while you send in the drones”.
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The extraordinary number of vulnerabilities in carmakers’ websites that allow remote control of vehicles is a direct result of companies’ push to appeal to consumers—particularly young ones—with smartphone-enabled features,
From: Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug | WIRED.
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This is a may be, but it does leave me puzzled as to why carmarkers who spend gazillions of dollars
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Today, a group of independent security researchers revealed that they’d found a flaw in a web portal operated by the carmaker Kia that let the researchers reassign control of the internet-connected features of most modern Kia vehicles—dozens of models representing millions of cars on the road—from the smartphone of a car’s owner to the hackers’ own phone or computer. By exploiting that vulnerability and building their own custom app to send commands to target cars, they were able to scan virtually any internet-connected Kia vehicle’s license plate and within seconds gain the ability to track that car’s location, unlock the car, honk its horn, or start its ignition at will.
From: Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug | WIRED.
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Half of UK fraud victims surveyed received at least a partial refund for their losses, compared with an average of 34 per cent across 15 countries including the US, Japan, Australia and France.
From: UK banks more likely to pay out fraud compensation than overseas rivals.
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With a device like Orion, you can see how we might soon access always-on computing discreetly, without the distracting wrist turns to look at a smartwatch, or palm turns to view a phone screen. It’s potentially disconcerting that the glasses might detach us even further from being present in real life.
From: Hands On With Meta’s New Orion Augmented Reality Glasses.
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the United Nation’s ambitious Pact for the Future outlines several goals that are to be achieved by 2030, including increased investment into digital public goods and digital public infrastructure, especially in developing countries.
The Pact supports adopting open standards and interoperability and promises to develop safeguards for “inclusive, responsible, safe, secure and user-centered” digital public infrastructure.From: Digital public infrastructure a pillar of UN’s ambitious Global Digital Compact | Biometric Update.
Never mind developing countries, we could use this in the UK.
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Societe Generale-FORGE (SG-FORGE), a subsidiary of the Societe Generale Group, has announced the integration of its MiCA-compliant stablecoin, EUR CoinVertible (EURCV), on Solana’s high-performance blockchain. This strategic move aims to enhance digital payments and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications by offering faster, more efficient, and cost-effective transactions.
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at a practical level it made it tricky to showcase some of the benefits of a shared ledger
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23% of UK children aged eight to 12 give their age as 18+ on social media apps.
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