And helps cable industry tackle scourge of streaming boxes US airwaves watchdog the FCC has taken a lot of flak in the past year for its determined effort to roll back its own rules on net neutrality – but that issue aside, the federal regulator has its finger on the pulse of America in the…

Consider this your reminder that a 700-plus-horsepower Shelby GT500 is coming soon. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Birds had to rediscover flight after the meteor strike that killed off the dinosaurs, scientists say. The cataclysm 66 million years ago not only wiped out Tyrannosaurus rex and ground-dwelling dinosaur species, but also flying birds, a detailed survey of the fossil record suggests. As forests…

Political ad rules come at a bad time for some politicians In its effort to prevent election meddling, Facebook has ended up meddling in an election.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

But please don’t let Jabba anywhere near my chakras. …read more Source:: CNet

The latest installment of Microsoft’s browser battery challenge shows once again that Edge consumes less energy than Chrome and Firefox. From a report: With the Windows 10 April 2018 Update rolling out across the globe, Microsoft thinks it’s once again time to square Edge up against Chrome and Firefox in a new battery-life test. Microsoft’s…

Here’s what’s happening in the Star Wars universe alongside Solo, and how many years apart its events are from other movies. …read more Source:: CNet

Shaun Nichols, reporting for The Register: A group of German researchers have devised a method to thwart the VM security in AMD’s server chips. Dubbed SEVered (PDF), the attack would potentially allow an attacker, or malicious admin who had access to the hypervisor, the ability to bypass AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) protections. The problem,…

Up to 70% of staff shown the door this week, insiders claim IBM has laid off approximately 50 and 70 per cent of staff this week in its Watson Health division, according to inside sources.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

An Austrian privacy group is wasting no time. …read more Source:: CNet