An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: If you want to truly understand what’s happening in the energy industry, the best thing to do is to travel deep into the heart of American coal country, to Carbon County, Wyoming…

Joe Palca reports via NPR: NASA’s Juno spacecraft has spotted giant cyclones swirling at Jupiter’s north and south poles. That’s just one of the unexpected and puzzling findings being reported by the Juno science team. Juno arrived at Jupiter last…

The Samba Team has patched a severe bug that leaves computers vulnerable to wormable exploit.

A linguistics analysis of the 28 ransom notes included with WannaCry indicate that native Chinese and English speakers wrote the original note, Flashpoint said.

Rep. Tom Graves has revised a draft of the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act with new provisions that include mandatory notification and permission to recovery or destroy stolen data on the attacker’s computer.

A recently released extension for Chrome, developed by the public key crypto database Keybase, brought end-to-end encrypted messaging to several apps this week.

Europe moves a step closer to limiting the spread of extremism and toxic content via social platforms

New machine-learning tool aims to deliver even more information to Google’s advertisers about your ‘consumer journey’

A vulnerability in caption files has been patched in some media players, but it’s not clear how widespread the flaw still is

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