Friday humanity set a new record for the most money ever spent online in a single day — and the most ever purchased on mobile devices. An anonymous reader writes: Online sales reached $3.34 billion yesterday, up 11.3% from the…

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are two investors in Bridge International Academies. But in Uganda, the group’s 63 schools have been “ordered to shut down in a matter of weeks, leaving the lives of thousands of pupils in limbo.” An…

“Did you ever think it would be great if hardware was open to the transistor level, not just the chip level?” writes hamster_nz, pointing to a new Crowd Supply campaign for the OnChip Open-V microcontroller, “a completely free (as in…

Lawrence Lessig’s new op-ed in the Washington Post argues against the idea “that the person who lost the popular vote this year must nonetheless become our president.” (Paywalled version here, free version here.) Lessig points out that the electoral college…

Dr Sue Black, author of ‘Saving Bletchley Park’, welcomes the new cybersecurity school being set up at Bletchley Park, the iconic wartime codebreaking centre

Doubts raised over Microsoft’s plans to discontinue threat mitigation tool in 2018

You may not have heard of cURL but you probably use it all the time

The auto-update server had a flaw, now fixed, that would have let anyone add anything to websites, putting 27% of the entire web at risk.

The Green party candidate in the U.S. presidential election, Jill Stein, has raised over $5 million in donations to fund a recount in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which are the states key to Hillary Clinton’s loss on November 8th. She…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A low-tech but cunning malware program is worrying security researchers after it started spreading rapidly in the past week through a new attack vector: by forcibly exploiting vulnerabilities in Facebook and…