A Samsung representative confirmed today via Twitter that the company has blocked the ability for users to remap the Bixby hardware button on the Galaxy S8. For soon-to-be Galaxy S8 owners, the news will come as a disappointment, especially since…
New York Plans To Force Uber To Add Tipping Option
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission announced a proposal today that could force Uber to finally allow riders to tip drivers within its app. The full proposal will be…
For the First Time On Record, Human-Caused Climate Change Has Rerouted an Entire River
A team of scientists on Monday documented what they’re describing as the first case of large-scale river reorganization as a result of human-caused climate change (Editor’s note: could be paywalled; alternative source). From a report: They found that in mid-2016,…
Dingo Wins The World's Most Interesting Genome Competition
An anonymous reader shares a report: It sounds like an argument scientists might have during a night of drinking: Which creature has the most interesting genome in the world? But the question is more than a passing musing. San Francisco…
VMware Fixes Critical RCE in vCenter Server
VMware patched a critical vulnerability in its vCenter Server platform late last week that could have let an attacker execute arbitrary code in some scenarios.
ShadowBrokers’ Windows Zero-Days Already Patched
Microsoft eased some anxiety over the latest ShadowBrokers dump of Windows zero days with news most of the vulnerabilities had already been patched.
Wave of Java-Based RATs Target Tax Filers
A rash of Java-based remote access Trojans is targeting tax filers with bogus IRS attachments.
Steve Wozniak Predicts The Future
USA Today asked Steve Wozniak to predict what the world will look like in 2075 — one hundred years after the founding of Apple. An anonymous reader writes: “He’s convinced Apple, Google and Facebook will be bigger in 2075,” according…
Geek Builds His Own NES Classic With A Raspberry Pi
“It turns out that the NES Classic Edition is just a little Linux-powered board inside a cute case,” writes Andrew Cunningham at Ars Technica, “and it’s totally possible to build your own tiny Linux-powered computer inside a cute case without…
Supercomputers Help Researchers Find Two New Kinds Of Magnets
“Predicting magnets is a heck of a job, and their discovery is very rare,” said a mechanical engineering professor at Duke University. But after years of work synthesizing various predictions, material scientists “predicted and built two new magnetic materials, atom-by-atom,…