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…
Low-Cost Ransomware Service Discovered
A new ransomware-as-a-service called Karmen appeals to ransomware newbies with a low price, easy setup and developer updates.
Facebook Delegated Account Recovery SDKs Published for Java, Ruby Apps
At F8 today, Facebook released SDKs and documentation for the integration of Delegated Account Recovery into Java, NodeJS and Ruby applications.
IHG Confirms Second Credit Card Breach Impacting 1,000-Plus Hotels
InterContinental Hotels Group said on Friday that it found malware designed to access payment card data at more than 1,000 of its hotels.
Tuesday review – the hot 22 stories of the week
From Word’s zero-day booby-trap exploit and the patch that Microsoft released to how hard-coded passwords risk the industry, and more!
How the Six-Hour Workday Actually Saves Money
An anonymous reader shares a report: In February, after almost two years worth of six-hour workdays, nurses at the Svartedalens elderly care facility in Gothenburg, Sweden went back to eight hour shifts — despite recently published research showing the benefits…