Day: July 23, 2018

Mark Hamill tricks Comic-Con into thinking he wore Vader-Trump cosplay – CNET

The Star Wars actor might have snuck around Comic-Con 2018 in costume, leaving fans wondering if they’d met him. …read more Source:: CNet


If at first you, er, make things worse, you’re probably Microsoft: Bug patch needed patching

VBScript hole ‘fixed’ in May actually left open for months A remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows VBScript engine was left open for exploitation for two months after it was supposedly patched.… …read more Source:: Register


Trump may push for post-Pruitt CAFE and emissions rollbacks – Roadshow

The Trump administration will also reportedly target California’s right to set its own emissions standards and its EV sales mandate. …read more Source:: CNet


Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter Launch Data Transfer Project

The open-source Data Transfer Project, intended to simplify and protect data transfer across apps, comes at a sensitive time for many of the participating organizations. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Tweeting goodbye: Celebrities who quit social media – CNET

Actors Millie Bobby Brown and Kelly Marie Tran aren’t the only celebs to leave Twitter and Instagram. Here are others who’ve cited trolls and too much time wasted as reasons to say sayonara to social media. …read more Source:: CNet


These German students just smashed a hyperloop speed record – CNET

This is the students’ third time winning the SpaceX hyperloop pod competition. …read more Source:: CNet


$20 physical key is the secret to Google employees’ online security – CNET

The company says none of its 85,000 employees have been phished since it adopted the keys. …read more Source:: CNet


Rick and Morty’s Dan Harmon deletes Twitter after controversial video emerges – CNET

A 2009 video depicting Harmon molesting a baby doll is coming back to haunt him. …read more Source:: CNet


Nintendo To ROM Sites: Forget Cease-and-Desist, Now We’re Suing

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nintendo’s attitude toward ROM releases — either original games’ files or fan-made edits — has often erred on the side of litigiousness. But in most cases, the game producer has settled on cease-and-desist orders or DMCA claims to protect its IP. This week saw the company…


Spectre rises from the dead to bite Intel in the return stack buffer

Seemingly invincible ghost in the machine may also continue to haunt AMD, Arm chips Spectre, a class of vulnerabilities in the speculative execution mechanism employed in modern processor chips, is living up to its name by proving to be unkillable.… …read more Source:: Register