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Ars Technica[^]:

Con artists pushing tech-support scams are once again exploiting a Chrome bug that can give users the false impression they’re experiencing a serious operating-system error that requires the urgent help of a paid professional, according to a Google developer forum. A Mozilla developer forum indicates a similar bug may also be present in Firefox.

BBC[^]:

A Polish charity has received a huge phone bill after it lost a GPS tracker that it had placed on the back of a stork, it's reported.

Engadget[^]:

Multi-agent training creates all sorts of emergent gaming behavior.

Science:(^)

In a series of experiments, we show that people often respond to decreases in the prevalence of a stimulus by expanding their concept of it. When blue dots became rare, participants began to see purple dots as blue; ... This “prevalence-induced concept change” occurred even when participants were forewarned about it and even when they were instructed and paid to resist it.

Gizmodo[^]:

It’s the smartphone conspiracy theory that just won’t go away: Many, many people are convinced that their phones are listening to their conversations to target them with ads.

MedicalXPress[^]:

There may be some truth to the saying "getting up on the wrong side of the bed," according to Penn State researchers who say starting your morning by focusing on how stressful your day will be may be harmful to your mindset throughout the day.

TechXplore[^]:

Communication could step beyond reading a cellular phone screen with a new technique by Purdue College of Engineering researchers to learn and read messages through a person's sense of touch.

Christian Nagel[^]:

C# 7 introduced pattern matching with the extension of the switch statement and the is operator offering the const pattern, the type pattern, and the var pattern. With C# 8 an extension of pattern matching is planned, including the property pattern, the recursive pattern, and a new switch – the switch expression.

SD Times[^]:

As teams are pressured to release software more rapidly, more and more aspects of software development are being forced to “shift left,” moving up earlier in the development lifecycle.

Techcrunch[^]:

In what amounts to be an amazingly nefarious bit of malware, hackers have created an exploit that watches 2.3 million high-value crypto wallets and replaces the addresses in the Windows clipboard with an address associated with the hackers.

Business Insider[^]:

Employees working for hundreds of software developers are reading the private messages of Gmail users, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

The Verge[^]:

Codenamed Andromeda, Microsoft’s project has been in development for at least two years and is designed to be a pocketable Surface device

enterprise.nxt[^]:

You may love what you do, but change is a fact of life in technology. Here’s how to stay a step ahead.