California’s net neutrality bill is vulnerable to legal attack, EFF says
State net neutrality laws that are too broad may be preempted by FCC's repeal.
View ArticleNew IoT botnet offers DDoSes of once-unimaginable sizes for $20
JenX is building an army of routers that can be used in for-hire attacks.
View ArticleNew observations of galaxies challenge the standard cosmological model
New observations of satellite galaxies don't seem to fit the our models.
View ArticleDealmaster: Save $160 on an Alienware desktop PC with a GTX 1080 Ti
Plus deals on the Xbox One X, Essential Phone, Netgear Orbi, and more.
View ArticleBitcoin drops below $9,000 in continued cryptocurrency slide
Bitcoin is now down 55 percent from its December peak.
View ArticleIgnore that FBI. We’re the real FBI, says the FBI that’s totally the FBI
Don't open that malware mail from the Feds that's not from the Feds, Feds warn Some scammers may have bitten off more than they can chew after they tried impersonating the FBI to spread malware.…
View ArticleRelatively few LG customers will see any money from “bootloop” lawsuit
Chamberlain v. LG was sent to arbitration in June 2017; now LG has quietly settled.
View ArticleNork hackers exploit Flash bug to pwn South Koreans. And Adobe will deal with...
Maybe it's a good time to just delete the thing Adobe will next week emit patches to squash a security bug in Flash that can be exploited by malicious webpages and documents, when opened, to hijack and...
View ArticleHey, you know what the internet needs? Yup, more industrial control systems...
Go on, shove another power plant or factory on the web The number of industrial control systems (ICS) connected to the internet has increased year on year – meaning more and more infrastructure is...
View ArticleYouTube will put disclaimers on state-funded broadcasts to fight propaganda
In efforts to educate viewers on where their news comes from.
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Hybrid IT provides the opportunity to transform the...
Hybrid IT wasn’t planned.It has arisen to challenge the orthodoxy of standardization in the IT organization, as businesses have shifted to competing in the digital economy.IT organizations have been...
View ArticleMicrosoft adds new, cheaper versions of the Surface Laptop and Surface Book 2
Big boost to affordability, but many will struggle with a 4GB/128GB machine.
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: How BDD can improve business-developer alignment
Developers, testers, product managers, business managers, and users often have different viewpoints on what makes great software.This can lead to bottlenecks and unnecessary rework, which adds cost...
View ArticleTeaser: Next up on “The Greatest Leap,” Ars talks Apollo 13
We talked with astronaut Fred Haise, along with the people who helped bring him home.
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: What you need to know about microservices tools
Previously in this three-part series, I wrote about how to introduce microservices in a legacy environment and provided an overview of domain-driven design (DDD) and how this development philosophy...
View ArticleComcast accused of demanding $3.5 million “punitive ransom” from rival
Wave Broadband says it had to pay big bucks to avoid losing sports networks.
View ArticleComprehensive US cell phone safety study inches toward publication
In this study, being in one of the control groups was fatal.
View ArticleWhatrsquo;s new in Google’s V8 JavaScript engine
A newly created branch of Google’s V8 JavaScript engine promises to improve compilation of the WebAssembly portable code format via streaming compilation in V8’s WebAssembly API.V8’s Version 6.5...
View ArticleAn Adobe Flash 0day is being actively exploited in the wild
Adobe plans to have a fix for the critical flaw no later than Monday.
View Article“A risk to the community”—Counter-Strike co-creator faces $150K bail post-arrest
Defense acknowledges sexual contact, says client "had no idea" witness was a minor.
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