China, battling increased threats from cyber-terrorism and hacking, will adopt from Thursday a controversial law…
Get Real, Microsoft: If the New Surface Pro Is a Laptop, Bundle It With a Type Cover
An anonymous reader shares an article: If Microsoft sold cars like it’s trying to sell…
Seven Science Journals Have A Dog On Their Editorial Board
An anonymous reader writes: A professor of health policy at Australia’s Curtin University got seven…
Leaked 'Standing Rock' Documents Reveal Invasive Counterterrorism Measures
An anonymous reader writes: “A shadowy international mercenary and security firm known as TigerSwan targeted…
Walt Mossberg's Last Column Calls For Privacy and Security Laws
70-year-old Walt Mossberg wrote his last weekly column Thursday, looking back on how “we’ve all…
US Senators Propose Bug Bounties For Hacking Homeland Security
An anonymous reader quotes CNN: U.S. senators want people to hack the Department of Homeland…
ESR Announces The Open Sourcing Of The World's First Text Adventure
An anonymous reader writes: Open source guru Eric S. Raymond added something special to his…
Microsoft Quietly Patches Another Critical Malware Protection Engine Flaw
Microsoft quietly patched a critical vulnerability found by Google’s Project Zero team in the Malware…
SSD Drives Vulnerable To Rowhammer-Like Attacks That Corrupt User Data
An anonymous reader writes: NAND flash memory chips, the building blocks of solid-state drives (SSDs),…
New Solar Plane Plans Non-Stop Flight Around The World
An anonymous reader quotes Bloomberg: [A] Russian tycoon and his Renova Group plan a record-breaking…