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Last week the Register warned 'If you're running the Unix printing system CUPS, with cups-browsed present and enabled, you may be vulnerable to attacks that could lead to your computer being commandeered over the network or internet.' (Although the CEO of cybersecurity...
Last week the Register warned 'If you're running the Unix printing system CUPS, with cups-browsed present and enabled, you may be vulnerable to attacks that could lead to your computer being commandeered over the network or internet.' (Although the CEO of cybersecurity...
Days after a hurricane struck America's southeast, Florida's state's fire marshall 'confirmed 16 lithium-ion battery fires related to storm surge,' according to local news reports. 'Officials said six of those fires are associated with electric vehicles and they are working...
'Can you believe that we've been demanding user freedom since 1985?' asks a new blog post at FSF.org: Today, we're celebrating our thirty-ninth anniversary, the 'lace year,' which represents the intertwined nature and strength of our relationship with the free software...
Police in Minneapolis arrested a 10-year-old boy who took a car and drove it through a school playground. Other children at Nellie Stone Johnson School narrowly avoided being struck and it isn't the kid's first rodeo—the BBC reports 'over 30 prior entries' in a rap sheet...
We tested some of the most popular automatic dry- and wet-food pet feeders to see which ones are worth the money.
Teton County Library in Jackson, Wyoming, has held Harry Potter-themed literacy programming for local kids for years. The events are ending after legal threats from Warner Brothers. In the past the company has encouraged such activities, but it's rebooting Harry Potter and...
Perfctl malware is hard to detect, persists after reboots, and can perform a breadth of malicious activities.
Mattel announces their release of the latest doll: a Diwali Barbie doll just in time for the Festival of Lights. Created with the help of Indian fashion designer Anita Dongre, the doll wears a Moonlight Bloom set embroidered with a mix of dahlias, jasmine and indian lotus,...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Comcast says data on 237,703 of its customers was in fact stolen in a cyberattack on a debt collector it was using, contrary to previous assurances it was given that it was unaffected by that intrusion. That collections...
Image from Got Weird on Instagram The post Fascinating photo of a train crossing Elephant Butte Dam in 1915 appeared first on Boing Boing.
Sony’s discreet new surround sound system offers incredible immersion for an incredible fee.
Your PC is capable of running not one, but two Windows apps designed to protect you and your system against online threats: Windows Security and Microsoft Defender. Telling them apart can be tricky, though. Thanks to a few name changes, what’s old sounds new and what’s...
A new report estimates that 40 percent of all cancer cases are associated with factors we can change—alcohol consumption being a prominent one.
Plus: Harvard students pack Meta’s smart glasses with privacy-invading face-recognition tech, Microsoft and the DOJ seize Russian hackers’ domains, and more.
On September 28, California amended the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 to recognize the importance of mental privacy. 'The law marks the second such legal protection for data produced from invasive neurotechnology, following Colorado, which incorporated neural data...
Celebrities do it (or wish they had), influencers won't stop talking about it, and clinics will all but tell you to do it now. The devil, though, is in the details.
Irish data watchdog opens probe after 'numerous complaints' Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched an inquiry into Ryanair's Customer Verification Process for travelers booking flights through third-party websites or online travel agents (OTA).…
As it becomes clear that climate change devastation can hit anywhere, engineers are considering how best to protect vital thoroughfares from intense storms.
It now seeks 10K supporters for Expert Review A working Turing Machine was submitted to Lego Ideas, consisting of approximately 2,900 parts and a bucketload of extreme cleverness.…
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