Nearly 200m voters’ personal details were exposed when a contractor failed to secure the GOP’s data in the cloud – and there are lessons for us all in this

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Researchers have built a doll with an AI chip and a camera that can interpret a child’s emotions. What could possibly go wrong?

It’s bad enough to be caught by an SMS phishing scam – but when the bad guys expose your stolen account details to the world, that really rubs salt into the wound

Looking closely at the tracking that’s done while you browse can be very unnerving – but does that mean you should give up using the web?

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

eBay announced today a new Price Match Guarantee for over 50,000 items across its site — promising that it will have the best deal online, or it will match the lowest price of a competitor. While only select items are…

An anonymous reader shares a Motherboard article: If you were youngish in the early 2000s, you probably remember this phenomenon — calling a friend’s cell phone, and instead of hearing the the standard ring, you heard a pop song. Called…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Microsoft has admitted that it does temporarily disable anti-virus software on Windows PCs, following an competition complaint to the European Commission by a security company. In early June, Kaspersky Lab filed…

sciencehabit writes: NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars in 2012, in part to analyze rocks to see whether the Red Planet was ever habitable (or inhabited). But now the robot has gone off script, picking out its own targets for…