A thorough review of the top 1 million websites reveals 93 percent fail Mozilla’s Observatory security review.

Siemens patched a recently disclosed vulnerability pertaining to systems with specific Intel processors. If exploited, the flaw could let an attacker gain system privileges.

Some things really, really shouldn’t be turned into IoT devices – including vending machines

A new film about Wikileaks should please those who believe in its importance – but doesn’t please the activist group’s founder

As the ATM celebrates its half-century, we look at the various ingenious ways in which crooks have tried to crack the ubiquitous machine

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

Google is rolling out Google Photos 3.0, which features an AI-powered Suggested Sharing feature along with Shared Libraries, “both of which are designed to make the Google Photos app a more social experience, rather than just a personal collection of…

romanval writes: A coal gasification plant in Mississippi is iswitching to natural gas after 5 years of delays and $4 billion cost overrun. Megan Geuss writes via Ars Technica: “The Kemper County plant was supposed to be a cutting-edge demonstration…

Michael J. Coren reports via Quartz: More than 1 million U.S. homes have solar systems installed on their rooftops. Batteries are set to join many of them, giving homeowners the ability to not only generate but also store their electricity…

Fitbit has published the results of a study that uses their longitudinal sleep database to analyze millions of nights of Sleep Stages data to determine how age, gender, and duration affect sleep quality. (Sleep Stages is a relatively new Fitbit…