An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: If you want to truly understand what’s…
Juno Spacecraft Reveals Spectacular Cyclones At Jupiter's Poles
Joe Palca reports via NPR: NASA’s Juno spacecraft has spotted giant cyclones swirling at Jupiter’s…
Samba Patches Wormable Bug Exploitable With One Line Of Code
The Samba Team has patched a severe bug that leaves computers vulnerable to wormable exploit.
WannaCry Ransom Note Written by Chinese, English Speaking Authors
A linguistics analysis of the 28 ransom notes included with WannaCry indicate that native Chinese…
Revised Active Defense Bill Allows Victims to Recover or Destroy Stolen Data
Rep. Tom Graves has revised a draft of the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act with…
Keybase Extension Brings End-to-End Encrypted Chat To Twitter, Reddit, GitHub
A recently released extension for Chrome, developed by the public key crypto database Keybase, brought…
YouTube, Twitter and Facebook face curbs on hate speech videos
Europe moves a step closer to limiting the spread of extremism and toxic content via…
Google debuts a new way to follow your footsteps around the web
New machine-learning tool aims to deliver even more information to Google’s advertisers about your ‘consumer…
Put down the popcorn and patch your media player
A vulnerability in caption files has been patched in some media players, but it’s not…
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