Google fixed a vulnerability that could’ve let an attacker carry out phishing attacks with Unicode domains in Chrome but Mozilla is holding off – for now.

Researchers who spent eight months digging into the scammers’ techniques reveal the tools the bad guys use and the money they’ve made

Biometric Exit, a scheme launched under Obama to check departing passengers, is being rolled out to every international airport in the US

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

Many letters in English come from Greek, so they look the same even if they don’t sound the same. Phishers could use this to trick you…

In one study, predictive models seem to have done rather better than carbon-based medics at spotting the potential for heart disease, one of the world’s biggest killers

A botnet dubbed Hajime uses much the same tactics as Mirai – but to neutralise the damage done. Is this a good thing, though?

Earlier this year, Tesla filed a lawsuit against its former director of Autopilot Programs, Sterling Anderson, for stealing proprietary information about the Autopilot program and recruiting fellow Tesla engineers to work with him at Aurora Innovation, another autonomous driving company….

New submitter omaha393 quotes a report from R&D Magazine: Toyota announced a new initiative on Wednesday aimed at advancing its work in vehicles powered by alternative energy sources. The automaker unveiled Project Portal, which is a novel hydrogen fuel cell…

dryriver writes: I’ve signed up to a project that involves inventing new ways to do things and also performing the technology R&D required to make these new ways a reality. So, dear Slashdotters, are there any good books on inventing,…