Judge bars student from violent games after alleged shooting threat
"You can play all the Mario Kart you want," judge says
View ArticleEquifax peeks under couch, finds 2.4 million more folk hit by breach
It's OK, it was only partial driving licence information Embattled credit-reporting company Equifax has done some data crunching and discovered another 2.4 million people that had their information...
View ArticleCouple freaks after tabloids spread medical pics of their worm-infested bums
Despite no errors or liability, the journal kindly dumped the butt pics.
View ArticleIntel’s latest set of Spectre microcode fixes is coming to a Windows update
Windows users will no longer be beholden to their motherboard makers.
View ArticleTrustico website goes dark after someone drops critical flaw on Twitter
Outage comes a day after CEO admitted emailing private keys for 23k HTTPS certs.
View ArticleGut bacteria key to the vampire bat’s ability to survive on blood
The vampire batrsquo;s genome only explains part of its blood-eating capabilities.
View ArticleMicrosoft lobs Skylake Spectre microcode fixes out through its Windows
Just go install Intel's patch while we hunt the next CPU-level security flaw in Intel's silicon Microsoft is pushing out another round of security updates to mitigate data-leaking Spectre side-channel...
View ArticleEx-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts
Google vows to defend lawsuit, says it hires “candidates based on their merit.”
View ArticleTrain to become an expert cyber crime fighter
Get prep’d for certs to prove your worth Promo As cyber threats seem to multiply and mutate at ever-increasing speed, it becomes difficult to be sure you are able defend your organisation against an...
View ArticleGDPR and the cloud: What you need to know
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), aka EU Regulation 2016/679, unifies data protection for all residents of the European Union (EU) as of May 25, 2018.Additionally, GDPR also addresses the...
View ArticleIntroduction to Learning to Rank (LTR) search analysis
A classification technique called Learning to Rank (LTR) is used to perfect search results based on things like actual usage patterns. LTR isn’t an algorithm unto itself.The actual ranking is often...
View ArticleTwitter CEO wants to study platform’s “health,” but is he ignoring the cancer?
Anedcotal data makes us wonder when a terrifying Twitter botnet will take over.
View ArticleReview: Buick aims high, falls short with $60,000 Enclave Avenir
And an actual teen tests GM's Teen Driver tech in Buick's latest crossover/SUV.
View ArticleCode reveals Instagram may be close to launching voice, video chat features
Piling on the features to keep users coming back for more.
View ArticleAfter Thursday’s launch, we can now eye storms in HD from New Zealand to Africa
The GOES-R series of satellites scan the planet five times faster than previous ones.
View ArticleUS Navy gives Lockheed Martin $150m big frickin’ laser cannon contract
It is supposed to 'dazzle' drones rather than fry them Lockheed Martin, makers of the F-35 and various other bits of defence hardware, has been handed a $150m contract by the US Navy to build two...
View ArticleRedDrop nasty infects Androids via adult links, records sound, and fires off...
Baidu users, beware A newly discovered strain of Android malware makes live recordings of ambient audio around an infected device.…
View ArticleNew Lego pieces: Still hard on your feet, but easier on the planet
Standard bricks will still be made of plastic; company has 2030 goal for those.
View ArticleLamar Smith says Russian bots are trying to cripple US energy production
Russian bots stirred pipeline trouble. Was it sowing divisions or targeting energy?
View ArticleThe hunt for cheaper GPUs is turning up some unexpected bargains
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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