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Game dev union leader: “Dream job” passion “can open us up to exploitation”
Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service
Police in the Netherlands and Northern Ireland arrested two 22-year old men believed to be connected to WeLeakInfo, a site offering usernames and passwords from multiple data breaches for sale. Police also took down the domain for the site, redirecting it to a seizure notice.
Critical Windows 10 vulnerability used to Rickroll the NSA and Github
US may subsidize Huawei alternatives with proposed $1.25 billion fund
Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster, study finds
Google plans to drop Chrome support for tracking cookies by 2022
Anti-vaxxers celebrate victory in NJ as pro-vaccine bill falls apart
Unpatched Citrix vulnerability now exploited, patch weeks away
Don’t trust the US gov’t, states tell court in T-Mobile/Sprint merger case
Exploit that gives remote access affects ~200 million cable modems
HP Spectre x360 13 review: an excellent high-end laptop with nice port selection, good performance, and great battery life, but its trackpad is narrow
The tiniest controller we’ve ever tested is a lot better than you might think
Mobileye collects 3.7M miles of sensor data daily from vehicles, using it to produce HD maps that will let its partners offer Level 2+ driver assistance systems
Injecting the flu vaccine into a tumor gets the immune system to attack it
Amazon takes a swipe at PayPal’s $4 billion acquisition
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FCC will pay ISPs to deploy broadband with 250GB monthly data cap
US Government-funded Android phones come preinstalled with unremovable malware
Samsung’s Galaxy XCover Pro brings back the removable battery – This will be the highest-end removable-battery phone on the market.
NYC broadband plan calls for fiber everywhere, with ISPs sharing network
Verizon’s great FiOS offer to me: Pay $50 extra for slower Internet
Firefox gets patch for critical zeroday that’s being actively exploited
Firefox 72 blocks fingerprinting scripts by default, rethinks notification pop-ups
NYC broadband plan calls for fiber everywhere, with ISPs sharing network – City will invest in network, but success depends heavily on private ISPs.
AMD’s third shoe drops at CES 2020: 7nm Zen 2 mobile CPUs
Unpatched VPN makes Travelex latest victim of “REvil” ransomware
Unable to unlock gunman’s iPhones, the FBI (once again) asks for Apple’s help
US finally prohibits ISPs from charging for routers they don’t provide – Yes, we needed a law to ban rental fees for devices that customers own in full
PGP keys, software security, and much more threatened by new SHA1 exploit
Ditching coal in the US is saving lives, helping crops – Near shuttered plants, deaths drop and crop productivity rises.
Researchers unearth malicious Google Play apps linked to active exploit hackers
The FTC’s 2020 COPPA rules have YouTube creators scared – YouTube creators don’t have access to kids’ data—but may get COPPA fines anyway.
With Monday night launch, SpaceX to become world’s largest satellite operator
Unpatched US government website gets pwned by pro-Iran script kiddie
“Cache issue” causes Xiaomi cameras to show other people’s camera feeds
Oracle copied Amazon’s API—was that copyright infringement? Opinion: Copying APIs is essential to competition in the software industry.
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