An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: BitTorrent has now done for live video what it did for file downloads: invented peer-to-peer technology that moves the burden of data transfer from a centralized source to the crowd. Instead of…
U2F Security Keys May Be the World's Best Hope Against Account Takeovers
earlytime writes: Large scale account hacks such as the billion user Yahoo breach and targeted phishing hacks of gmail accounts during the U.S. election have made 2016 an infamous year for web security. Along comes U2F/web-security keys to address these…
How Social Isolation Is Killing Us
schwit1 quotes a report from The New York Times: Social isolation is a growing epidemic (Warning: may be paywalled; alternate source) — one that’s increasingly recognized as having dire physical, mental and emotional consequences. Since the 1980s, the percentage of…
Russians Used Malware On Android Devices To Track and Target Ukraine Artillery, Says Report
schwit1 quotes a report from Reuters: A hacking group linked to the Russian government and high-profile cyber attacks against Democrats during the U.S. presidential election likely used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units…
2016 MacBook Pro Fails To Receive a Recommendation From Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports has released its evaluation of the new MacBook Pro laptops, and it’s not good. The 2016 MacBook Pro is the first MacBook to fail to receive a recommendation from the nonprofit organization dedicated to unbiased product testing. 9to5Mac…
Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars From San Francisco, Sends Them To Arizona
An anonymous reader quotes a report from SFGate: Uber is moving its self-driving pilot to Arizona, one day after the California Department of Motor Vehicles ordered the autonomous vehicles off the roads in San Francisco. “Our cars departed for Arizona…
World's First 'Solar Panel Road' Opens In France
The world’s first solar road has officially opened in the small village of Tourouvre-au-Perche in Normandy, France. The road is 1 kilometer long and can generate enough electricity to power the street lights. The Verge reports: That might not sound…
Wikipedia Announces the Most Edited Articles of 2016
Wikipedia has revealed its most edited articles of 2016. Believe it or not, the two most edited articles of the year were for Deaths in 2016, which was edited 18,230 times, and Donald Trump, with 8,933 edits as of December…
Congressional Group Says Encryption Backdoors Are a Bad Idea
Members of the bipartisan encryption working group released a year-end report concluding that encryption backdoor laws would do more harm than good.
Siemens Patches Insufficient Entropy Vulnerability in ICS Systems
German industrial giant Siemens has provided a firmware update addressing software vulnerabilities that are found in a popular line of its Desigo PX industrial control hardware.