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AMC’s Sarah Barnett Fires Streaming Wars Warning: “The Magic Is In What The Algorithm Can’t Find” Big Data

AMC’s Sarah Barnett Fires Streaming Wars Warning: “The Magic Is In What The Algorithm Can’t Find”

AMC boss Sarah Barnett has warned that the streaming wars and the drive towards data-led commissioning will hurt the quality of television. Barnett, president of AMC Networks Entertainment Group and AMC Studios, opened the company’s afternoon of panel sessions at the Winter TCA with an eloquent and punchy take-down of…
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January 17, 2020
Bad news: Windows security cert SNAFU exploits are all over the web now. Also bad: Citrix gateway hole mitigations don’t work for older kit NSA

Bad news: Windows security cert SNAFU exploits are all over the web now. Also bad: Citrix gateway hole mitigations don’t work for older kit

Good news: There is none. Well, apart from you can at least fully patch the Microsoft blunder Vid Easy-to-use exploits have emerged online for two high-profile security vulnerabilities, namely the Windows certificate spoofing bug and the Citrix VPN gateway hole. If you haven't taken mitigation steps by now, you're about…
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January 17, 2020
335 Million Dead? Or Double That? Here’s How People Would Die in the First Three Days of Nuclear War Cold War

335 Million Dead? Or Double That? Here’s How People Would Die in the First Three Days of Nuclear War

Key point: The destruction of cities would deny the millions of injured, even those who might otherwise easily survive, even basic health care. What remains of governmentin any countrywould be hard pressed to maintain order in the face of dwindling food and e…
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January 16, 2020
Chuck Schumer Is a Last-Minute No on Trump’s North American Trade Deal, Citing Lack of Climate Progress Air Pollution

Chuck Schumer Is a Last-Minute No on Trump’s North American Trade Deal, Citing Lack of Climate Progress

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the Trump administrations trade deal, passed 89-10 in the Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday with one high-profile defection: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Schumer, who as late as last month said he was…
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January 16, 2020