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Wild dog packs “vote” on whether to start hunting

Dogs reach a quorum by sneezing, though some votes count more than others.

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What’s in a face? If monkeys don’t see them as babies, they don’t know

Study suggests how specialized visual recognition might develop.

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Yarn 1.0 simplifies JavaScript dependency management

Facebook’s Yarn, an alternative JavaScript package manager to NPM, has reached a 1.0 release, which features a workspaces capability to ensure the latest code is being used on engineering projects.With...

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Judge won’t release man jailed 2 years for refusing to decrypt drives

Kid-porn suspect to remain jailed pending 5th Amendment appeal to Supreme Court.

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Microsoft slings bulked-up Windows Defender preview at world+dog

Security tool slated for Creators Update promises to rat on misbehaving apps, bad staff Microsoft says its upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update will include new capabilities in the Windows Defender...

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Irma and Florida: Confidence in the hurricane’s forecast track is growing

Irma still seems likely to come ashore somewhere between the Everglades and Miami.

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Ground-source heat startup ready to drill, announces partner for the ductwork

With experienced local company, Dandelion moves forward.

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Top tip, hacker newbs: Don’t use the same Skype ID for IoT bot herding and...

To be fair, the kid is only 13 A teenage tearaway with a passion for building botnets was apparently caught using the same Skype ID he used for hacking activities when applying for jobs.…

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Coming South Park game is harder for black characters

“Don't worry, this doesnrsquo;t affect combat. Just every other aspect of your whole life.”

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Wonder why Congress doesn’t clamp down on its gung-ho spies? Well, wonder no...

No, it's not because they have Trump-pee-tapes Analysis  When Edward Snowden revealed the extent of illegal operations carried out by American spy agencies, many wondered whether the US Congress was...

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IBM partners with MIT for $240 million “fundamental AI research” project

The open-ended research will explore consumer tech, health, and security applications.

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Stand up who HASN’T been hit in the Equifax mega-hack – whoa, whoa, sit down...

143m in US, unknown number in UK, Canada – gulp! Vid  Credit reporting and checking agency Equifax has admitted to a massive breach of security that could affect almost half of the US population.…

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Equifax website hack exposes data for ~143 million US consumers

Breach affecting 44 percent of US population is one of the biggest yet.

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IDG Contributor Network: 7 mobile usability success factors

What do phones and toothbrushes have in common? Both are personal items that you canrsquo;t live without, that you wouldnrsquo;t loan out.This is a topic that came up recently recently during a seminar...

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ONNX makes machine learning models portable, shareable

Microsoft and Facebooknbsp;have announced a joint project to make it easier for data analysts to exchange trained models between different machine learning frameworks.The Open Neural Network Exchange...

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Intel to stop making WiGig cards for laptops but still pushing 60GHz for VR

Wireless docking stations haven't really caught on, but VR headsets may be another story.

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It’s official: Tenzig Norgay, Sputnik honored with features on Pluto

Explorers, astronomers, and underworld figures donate give names to features.

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Mexican tax refund site left 400GB of sensitive customer info wide open

Tourists' passport details and credit card numbers exposed Mexican VAT refund site MoneyBack exposed sensitive customer information online as a result of a misconfigured database.…

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Surprising nobody, lawyers line up to sue the crap out of Equifax

Class actions already piling up against identity theft brokers Less than 24 hours after credit monitors Equifax revealed it had lost the personal data of more than 130 million Americans, two class...

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Microsoft says it won’t fix kernel flaw: It’s not a security issue. Suuuure

So stopping antivirus software from spotting malware is now a feature? A design flaw within the Windows kernel that could stop antivirus software from recognizing malware isn't going to be fixed,...

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