A new Google program OSS-Fuzz is aimed at continuously fuzzing open source software and has already detected over 150 bugs.

Today’s Android Security Bulletin included a patch for the Dirty Cow vulnerability, a seven-year-old Linux bug that had yet to be patched by Google.

From Uber collecting location data even when not in use and the new iOS lockscreen-bypassing bug to the IoT camera turning zombie in 2 mins

It reportedly has FAA go-ahead to fly commercial drones. Indoor mapping is also in the works, but no worries: it’s not peeping-Tom time.

Troy Hunt struggles to get a response from affected company

America’s Transportation Security Administration has been making some surprising announcements on social media. An anonymous reader writes: A TSA spokesperson says 70 laptops were left behind in just one month at an airport security checkpoint in Newark. “And yes, there…

An anonymous reader quotes OStatic’s update on Canonical’s lawsuit against a cloud provider: Canonical posted Thursday that they’ve been in a dispute with “a European cloud provider” over the use of their own homespun version of Ubuntu on their cloud…

BrianFagioli shares his story on Beta News: Feeling fatigued by Windows 10 and its constant updates and privacy concerns? Can’t afford one of those beautiful new MacBook Pro laptops? Don’t forget, Linux-based desktop operating systems are just a free download…

jader3rd shares an article from PC World arguing that Windows 10’s data collection “trades your privacy for Microsoft’s security.” [Anonymized] usage data lets Microsoft beef up threat protection, says Rob Lefferts, Microsoft’s director of program management for Windows Enterprise and…

In 1962, 24-year-old Donald Knuth began writing The Art of Computer Programming, publishing three volumes by 1973, with volume 4 arriving in 2005. (Volume 4A appeared in 2011, with new paperback fascicles planned for every two years, and fascicle 6,…