Dthief shares a report from New Scientist: Now and then, a painter like Claude Monet or Pablo Picasso comes along and turns the art world on its head. They invent new aesthetic styles, forging movements such as impressionism or abstract…

Ubuntu fixed a Linux bug that could have let an attacker cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with a TCP payload this week.

The global outbreak of the Petya/ExPetr malware wasn’t a ransomware attack, it was wiper malware aimed to sabotage, according to experts.

The glaring privacy issues tied to an online health and beauty retailer allows customers to log-in to their users accounts with just their email address – no password needed.

AA members not unreasonably complied when they received an email warning them to change their passwords … but the AA’s servers couldn’t cope

From dating apps to scanning faces in a football crowd, the AI-driven technology is increasingly ubiquitous – but it’s not without its problems

Nuclear submarines run on Windows XP – but is that the ships’ weakest point?

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

randomErr writes: A new patent has been filed for a innovative brewing technique that incorporates a live strain of good bacteria into the brewing process. Researchers at NUS (National University of Singapore) have created a probiotic sour beer that may…

According to MSPoweruser, the London Metropolitan Police are still using around 18,000 PCs powered by Windows XP, an operating system Microsoft stopped supporting in 2014. What’s more is that the police force is upgrading its PCs from Windows XP to…