Microsoft is kind enough to offer Surface Laptop users the option to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro for free until later this year if they don’t like Windows 10 S, which is installed by default and is only able to…

Ethiopia's Coffee Is the Latest Victim of Climate Change
According to a study published today in Nature Plants, by the end of this century, increasing temperatures could make it impossible to grow coffee in about half of Ethiopia’s coffee-growing regions. “That’s because Arabica coffee trees (which are grown in…

The Behind-the-Scenes Changes Found In MacOS High Sierra
Apple officially announced macOS High Sierra at WWDC 2017 earlier this month. While the new OS doesn’t feature a ton of user-visible improvements and is ultimately shaping up to be a low-key release, it does feature several behind-the-scenes changes that…

Scientists Declare End to Global Coral Reef Bleaching Event
Scientists in the U.S. have announced Monday that a mass bleaching of coral reefs worldwide has finally ended after three years. “About three-quarters of the world’s delicate coral reefs were damaged or killed by hot water in what scientists say…

Cats May Have Been Domesticated Twice
sciencehabit writes: Cats may have been domesticated twice, once in Turkey around 10,000 years ago, and again in Egypt, thousands of years later. That’s the conclusion of a new genetic analysis of more than 200 ancient cats, including DNA extracted…

IoT Malware Activity Already More Than Doubled 2016 Numbers
The number of new malware samples in the wild this year targeting connected internet-of-things (IoT) devices has already more than doubled last year’s total.

Stack Clash Vulnerability in Linux, BSD Systems Enables Root Access
Patches are available for a newly discovered Linux, BSD and Solaris vulnerability called Stack Clash that bypasses stack guard-page mitigations and enables root access.

Republican Data Broker Exposes 198M Voter Records
Almost 200 million voter profiles culled by Republican data broker Deep Root Analytics were left exposed on an Amazon S3 server.

Mexican Journalists, Lawyers Focus of Government Spyware
Dozens of Mexican journalists, lawyers, and even a child, were hit with Pegasus, commercially-produced spyware, as part of a campaign believed to be carried out by the nation’s government.

FIN10 Extorting Canadian Mining Companies, Casinos
A string of data thefts targeting North American mining companies and casinos are extorting as much as $620,000 from victims.