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PaymentsSource – HSBC is the first bank in the U.S. to deploy SoftBank’s lifelike Pepper robot in a branch to help customers learn about bill pay, remote check capture and even ask the weather – but in Pepper’s current iteration, it won’t take deposits or payments.

Infosecurity – Cryptojacking doesn’t destroy data. Instead, it chews up computing resources. Danny Bradbury asks whether criminals have finally found a largely victimless crime

Dark Reading – Threat group Thrip is using three computers based in China to steal data from targeted companies in Southeast Asia and the US, Symantec says. An advanced persistent threat group that is believed to be operating out of China is conducting a wide-ranging cyber espionage campaign targeting satellite, telecommunications, and defense organizations mostly in Southeast Asia and the United States.

Stop the presses. Forbes – A blog post from Imperva filed under “Research” makes the breathless claim that the author was able to impersonate someone else and execute a cross-site scripting phishing scam by exploiting flaws in the Auth0 identity-as-a-service platform.

New Indian Express – Centralizing surveillance, utilities and other essential services can potentially do more harm than good.