Inventive users took their revenge via Wikipedia
Researchers develop synthetic skeleton keys for fingerprint sensors
Your fingerprint doesn’t match anyone else’s but parts of it might, and that could be enough
Internet routing weakness could cost Bitcoin users
A flaw in the underlying design of the Internet could be very expensive for Bitcoin users, researchers find.
News in brief: Facebook introspects; Magento RCE; RIP Robert Taylor
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Watch out for fraudsters attacking Amazon Marketplace accounts
Are you a Marketplace seller? Here are some tips to help you avoid becoming a victim of the latest round of attacks
Boeing To Lay Off Hundreds of Engineers Amid Sales Slowdown
According to Reuters, Boeing has warned its employees that it “planned another round of involuntary layoffs that would affect hundreds of engineers at its commercial airplanes unit.” From the report: The latest job cuts followed a prior involuntary reduction of…
StarCraft Is Now Free, Nearly 20 Years After Its Release
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Nearly two decades after its 1998 release, StarCraft is now free. Legally! Blizzard has just released the original game — plus the Brood War expansion — for free for both PC and…
Benchmarks Show Galaxy S8 With Snapdragon 835 Is a Much Faster Android Handset
MojoKid writes: Samsung recently launched the Galaxy S8 series of Android smartphones to much fanfare but only recently did the handsets begin to arrive in market for testing and review. Though the high-polish styling of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy…
Researchers Discover New Species of Giant Spider
adeelarshad82 writes: Califorctenus cacachilensis, recently named by researchers at the San Diego Natural History Museum, was first located in 2013 in a mountain range in Baja California Sur, Mexico. The eye pattern led researchers to believe it was potentially part…
How Tilt Went From Hot $375 Million Startup To Fire Sale
tedlistens writes: Not long ago, social payments company Tilt seemed to have it all — a hot idea; cool, young founders with Y Combinator pedigrees; and $67 million in funding — not to mention a $375 million valuation. But Tilt…