Some customers are irked it took GameStop months to inform them that their personal and financial information could have been compromised in a breach of GameStop.com that began in August 2016.
When security bugs become WONTFIX writeoffs [Chet Chat Podcast 262]
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Want Instagram likes? Now you can buy popularity from a vending machine
Vending machines are now offering you the chance to boost your social media popularity. But, what are the consequences?
Android ransomware hides in fake King of Glory game
Taking design cues from WannaCry, a fake copy of the popular King of Glory game is being used to spread ransomware
News in brief: Ransomware-proof Windows?; Al Jazeera attacked; Coats keeps quiet
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Google Launches Android O Developer Preview 3 With Final APIs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Google today launched the third Android O developer preview, available for download now at developer.android.com and via the Android Beta Program. The preview includes an updated SDK with system images for the…
Uber's Self-Driving Unit Gets New Head of Hardware After Levandowski Firing
A little more than a week ago, Uber fired Anthony Levandowski, the former head of its self-driving car project who is accused of stealing some 14,000 documents from Google’s Waymo and using that information as the technological basis for Uber’s…
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Sloot Compression?
An anonymous reader writes: A Dutch electronics engineer named Jan Sloot spent 20 years of his life trying to compress broadcast quality video down to kilobytes — not megabytes or gigabytes (the link in this story contains an 11 minute…
Teardown of New iMac Reveals Upgradable Processors, RAM
According to an iFixit teardown, Apple’s new 4K 21.5-inch iMac has both removable RAM and a Kaby Lake processor that’s not soldered onto the logic board. Whereas the previous models had soldered memory modules, the new iMac’s memory sit in…
Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament
Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain has lost her overall majority in Parliament on Thursday, plunging Britain into a period of renewed political chaos less than two weeks before it is scheduled to begin negotiations over withdrawing from the European…