Cracking down on Amazon review profiteers, raking in the dough finding security flaws, the sad state of security, the US loses the keys to the Internet, and lots more as Dedi, Ben, Lyle, and Miles cover the week in geek news. Oh, and Lyle shot himself in the leg.
If you think Apple killed the headphone jack on the iPhone 7
Like a lot of people, we read Amazon reviews as part of our product research. Getting broad feedback on a product can be very useful when we
A controversial broker of security exploits is offering $1.5 million (
At the Black Hat hacking conference, Apple announced a list of vulnerabilities that would command big bounties, including $25,000 for ways around Apple
The battleground state of Pennsylvania might as well have a target on its back as Election Day nears, the cybersecurity company Carbon Black warned in a new report released Thursday.
On Friday, the Rosetta mission came to a close. At 11:19 UTC, the radio signal received at Earth from the spacecraft was cut off when the orbiter became a lander, slowly impacting and coming to rest on the surface of a comet.
At that moment, it became more than it once was; it became a part of the comet it had been chasing since it was launched on March 2, 2004.
Randall Monroe uses his famous online comic to poke a little fun at the end of the Rosetta comet-encounter mission.
The source code that powers the
Here’s a live map of infected nodes in the Mirai botnet.
The survey revealed that the majority of respondents understand that their digital behavior puts them at risk, but do not make efforts to change it.
With the 500 million accounts involved in the breach disclosed last week, the stolen passwords were encrypted. Yahoo concluded the risk of misuse was low so it notified users and encouraged them to reset their passwords themselves.
A judge in Texas has put the kibosh on a last-minute legal attempt to block the controversial decision for the US to give up control of one of the key systems that powers the internet.
One common complaint in the twenty-first century is that nothing is built to last. Even complex, expensive computers seem to have a relatively short shelf-life nowadays. One computer in a small auto repair shop in Gdansk, Poland, however, has survived for the last twenty-five years against all odds.
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