science.slashdot.org - On Monday, SpaceX let reporters take a look inside its Crew Dragon capsule for the first time, as well as hear from the four astronauts: Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley, Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins. Ars Technica writes about several pieces of hardware observed at the event in Hawthorne, California: ...
bleepingcomputer.com - Security researchers have shown that having Microsoft Cortana enabled on the Windows lock screen could be a security risk. In such a configuration, users could compromise a system or lead to or impersonate a user using credentials stored in the browser cache.
science.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Live Science: Scientists found that death travels in unremitting waves through a cell, moving at a rate of 30 micrometers (one-thousandth of an inch) every minute, they report in a new study published Aug. 10 in the journal Science. That means, for instanc...
tripwire.com - Thomas Keck reviews “Accelerate,” a book which details the results of a multi-year study analyzing company’s software development and delivery processes that categorizes them into low, medium, and high performers.
tech.slashdot.org - In a statement Tuesday, Verizon announced deals making Apple and Google its first video providers for a 5G wireless service its planning to launch in four cities later this year. From the report: The home broadband service will debut in Los Angeles, Houston and Sacramento, California, as well as...
yro.slashdot.org - New submitter SteveSgt writes: A forum thread on QRZ.com indicates that the shortwave time broadcasts by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) from stations WWV (Colorado) and WWVH (Hawaii) may be slashed in budget year 2019. [One of the proposed reductions includes "$6.3 mill...
news.slashdot.org - Los Angeles officials announced Tuesday that the city's subway will become the first mass transit system in the U.S. to install body scanners that screen passengers for weapons and explosives. "The deployment of the portable scanners, which project waves to do full-body screenings of passengers w...
news.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A new survey by Consumer Reports once again highlights how consumers are responding positively to [community-run broadband networks]. The organization surveyed 176,000 Consumer Reports readers on their experience with their pay TV and broadban...
yro.slashdot.org - According to a report from the Sacramento Bee, officials in Sacramento County have been accessing license plate reader data to track welfare recipients suspected of fraud. The practice dates back to 2016. Gizmodo reports: Sacramento County Department of Human Assistance Director Ann Edwards conf...
hardware.slashdot.org - theodp writes: "Long before phone addiction panic gripped the masses and before screen time became a facet of our wellness and digital detoxes," begins Katie Reid's article, How the Shared Family Computer Protected Us from Our Worst Selves, "there was one good and wise piece of technology that ...
bleepingcomputer.com - In this article we will outline the cumulative updates for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2008. There are numerous fixes and security updates resolved with these updates, so it is strongly advised that everyone install them as soon as possible.
yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A group of Tinder founders and executives has filed a lawsuit against parent company Match Group and its controlling shareholder IAC. The plaintiffs in the suit include Tinder co-founders Sean Rad, Justin Mateen and Jonathan Badeen -- Badeen ...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - More than 33 billion records will be stolen by cyber criminals in 2023 alone, despite data protection laws mandating strong measures to protect personal and financial data, a study has found. The figure represents an increase of 175% over the 12 billion records expected to be compromised in 2018,...
science.slashdot.org - Vaping can damage vital immune system cells and may be more harmful than previously thought, a study suggests. Researchers found e-cigarette vapour disabled important immune cells in the lung and boosted inflammation. From a report: The researchers "caution against the widely held opinion that e-...
science.slashdot.org - If you happen to have a box of spaghetti in your pantry, try this experiment: Pull out a single spaghetti stick and hold it at both ends. Now bend it until it breaks. How many fragments did you make? If the answer is three or more, pull out another stick and try again. Can you break the noodle in...
bleepingcomputer.com - Microsoft has started rolling out new cumulative updates for Windows 10 April 2018 Update (version 1803) and Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709). The update fixes a variety of issues in Windows 10.
it.slashdot.org - Intel on Tuesday disclosed three more possible flaws in some of its microprocessors that can be exploited to gain access to certain data from computer memory. From a report: Its commonly used Core and Xeon processors were among the products that were affected, the company said. "We are not aware ...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - Yesterday evening, the Associated Press revealed the results of an investigation, which shows Google services on Android devices and iPhone store location data and tracks the user, even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from doing so. IT security experts commented ...
it.slashdot.org - From border crossings to hacking conferences, that Bitcoin or political sticker may be worth leaving on a case at home. From a report: Plenty of hackers, journalists, and technologists love to cover their laptop in all manner of stickers. Maybe one shows off their employer, another flaunts that l...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - Eighty-one percent believe cyber attackers will target machine communications from local polling stations to central aggregation points Venafi®, the leading provider of machine identity protection, today announced the results of a study on the security of election infrastructure. According to th...
securityweek.com - A vulnerability in Microsoft's Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) allows any attacker in the same organization with a valid second factor to access any other user's account if they can obtain that user's credentials.
