That sounds harsh – but the social media giant has a duty to protect users’ privacy, even after they’ve died – and it highlights the issues of what happens to our online lives after we die

From Chrome’s secret recording bug that’s ‘not a flaw’ and AI detecting pain in animals to the latest attempt to drop ransomware on your PCs, and more!

What’s going on under the hood of the Judy apps we wrote about last month? We had a look – and didn’t like what we found

Two cases in Florida suggest that claiming you can’t remember your phone’s password mean you could end up in even more trouble

Our data may be currency to Facebook, but being able to let your loved ones know you’re safe is priceless

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

In a news magazine show premiering tonight, Megyn Kelly reports that Russian president Vladimir Putin “has denied Russian involvement in the hacking and interference with our U.S. presidential eletion for some time. That changed earlier this week, and the story…

Slashdot reader jb373 is a senior software engineer whose team’s bug-tracking methodology is making it hard to track bugs. My team uses agile software methodologies, specifically scrum with a Kanban board, and adds all bugs we find to our Kanban…

An anonymous reader quotes BleepingComputer: Malicious ads displayed in Google search results for Target — the US retailer — redirected users to a tech support scam. The malvertising campaign was spotted on Friday by a US user who posted his…

Engadget reports: Representative Tom Graves, R-Ga., thinks that when anyone gets hacked — individuals or companies — they should be able to “fight back” and go “hunt for hackers outside of their own networks.” The Active Cyber Defense Certainty (“ACDC”)…