Day: June 26, 2018

AirPods and HomePod updates would bring Apple closer to its audio ambitions

With screen time under attack and Siri preparing for a huge boost, the company is taking tentative steps toward making hero devices for voice. …read more Source:: ZDNet


The Quest To Make Super-Cold Quantum Blobs in Space

Last January in northern Sweden, a German-led team of physicists loaded a curious machine onto an unmanned rocket. The payload, about as tall as a single-story apartment, was essentially a custom-made freezer — a vacuum chamber, with a small chip and lasers within, that could cool single atoms near absolute zero. It may sound like…


Insider Dangers Are Hiding in Collaboration Tools

…read more Source:: DarkReading


Honda preparing to debut Pilot plug-in hybrid SUV, report says – Roadshow

It could arrive alongside a midcycle refresh for Honda’s three-row ute. …read more Source:: CNet


Liberty loser Reality Winner: NSA leaker could get 63 months

Panty-hosed renegade facing over five years of hard time Reality Winner, a contractor who passed classified NSA information about Russian hacking of election machines to the media, has pled guilty to one count of espionage.… …read more Source:: Register


For sale on eBay: A crumbling original Back to the Future shoe – CNET

Great Scott! This Nike Mag is in rough shape. …read more Source:: CNet


Fortnite made over $300 million in May, but could finally be slowing down – CNET

Fortnite revenue hit a new high according to data from SuperData. …read more Source:: CNet


NSA leaker Reality Winner pleads guilty, could get 5 years in jail – CNET

She leaked a classified report about Russian election meddling. …read more Source:: CNet


The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn’t Over Yet

There are cyberheists, and then there’s Carbanak, a cybercriminal gang that has stolen about $1.2 billion from more than 100 banks in 40 nations. The suspected 34-year-old ringleader is under arrest, but the whopping $1.2 billion amount remains missing. And to add insult to the injury, the malware attacks live on. Bloomberg Businessweek has an…


‘Have I Been Pwned’ Now Built into Firefox, 1Password

Users can search breach data in a new tool called Firefox Monitor and check if passwords have been exposed in 1Password on the Web. …read more Source:: DarkReading