AmiMoJo writes: The author of the popular cURL utility has been receiving requests for help…
Dutch Science Academy Plans A Women-Only Election
greg65535 writes: In order to reduce its gender imbalance, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts…
Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name?
lpress writes: The Internet was a major source of news — fake and real —…
Commercial-Mining Drones Keep Getting Attacked By Eagles
An anonymous reader summarizes an article from ABC News: The world’s seventh-biggest gold producer has…
Office Depot allegedly running in-store tech support scams
KIRO-TV is accusing Office Depot staffers of charging consumers up to $200 to remove non-existent…
Mobile phone company 3 in “upgrade intercept scam” data breach
Got a cool new phone unexpectedly? If it seems too good to be true, it…
OK, so it’s called “BlackNurse”. But *why*? [Chet Chat Podcast 255]
Here’s the latest episode of our security podcast. Enjoy!
Not a Bad Quarter To Be a GPU Vendor
Jeremy Hellstrom, writing for PC Perspective (edited):Compared to Q2 2016, total GPU shipments including discrete…
Internet of Things Set To Change the Face of Dementia Care
The internet of things, also known as connected things, have been in the news lately…
When a City Has Gigabit Internet, Prices For Slower Speed Tiers Drop: Study
A new industry-funded research study, titled “Broadband competition helps to lower prices and faster download…