An anonymous reader shares a CNN report: It made history as India’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft. Then it vanished. Nearly a decade later, NASA has located two unmanned spacecraft orbiting the moon, including India’s Chandrayaan-1, which went quiet in 2009….
U.S. Jobs, Pay Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month
Two anonymous reader share a Bloomberg report: U.S. employers added jobs at an above-average pace for a second month on outsized gains in construction and manufacturing while wage growth picked up, as the labor market continued its steady improvement in…
How Many Snapchat Clones Does It Take For Facebook To Lose Its Self-Respect?
Alex Hern, writing for The Guardian: Over the past year, Facebook has shown an almost monomaniacal dedication to taking on Snapchat by importing its defining features wholesale into the company’s own apps. Facebook Live has “masks” now (think Snapchat’s Lenses)….
Africa Gets Its Own Web Address
Africa now has the unique web address .africa, equivalent to the more familiar .com, following its official launch by the African Union. From a report on BBC: AU commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma hailed its creation as the moment when…
Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit?
Here’s what Jeff Atwood, a founder of Stack Overflow thinks: Password rules are bullshit. They don’t work. They heavily penalize your ideal audience, people that use real random password generators. Hey, guess what, that password randomly didn’t have a number…
Facebook to listen out for posts from people vulnerable to suicide
Scheme rolling out in the US will refer posts flagged by algorithms to human beings for response
China mulls national cryptocurrency in race to digital money
Governments getting involved in cryptocurrencies is a tricky line to walk – so is China doing the right thing give its fraught history with Bitcoin users?
Honey, I Wiretapped the Kids [Chet Chat Podcast 259]
Here’s our latest security podcast – enjoy!
Are you customer of a firm that’s been breached? Look out for more attacks
Customers of the UK telecoms provider TalkTalk have found themselves targeted by scammers – and the advice applies to other firms too