Logins misdirected to wrong boxes by Jira toolkit Exclusive Atlassian has warned users of its Jira Service Desk toolkit to change their helpdesk email account passwords – after a glitch caused the credentials to be sent to strangers’ servers.… …read more Source:: Register

Say cheers to one-click ordering. …read more Source:: CNet

Score bigly for unpresidented words and exclamation points with Scrabull. Yell “witch hunt!” if you’re challenged. …read more Source:: CNet

It even has its own Twitter account now. …read more Source:: CNet

Yesterday, during his quarterly earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a new piece of hardware that the company is working on to perform all the calculations required to advance the self-driving capabilities of its vehicles. The specialized chip, known as “Hardware 3,” will be “swapped into the Model S, X, and 3,” reports TechCrunch….

Boffins find this makes a whole lot of scents for developers Kotlin, which Google blessed last year as an alternative to Java for programming Android apps, has already made its way into almost 12 per cent of open source Android apps and in so doing has elevated their code quality.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Korea Times: The government will move quickly to impose taxes on Google, Apple, Amazon and other global IT companies. This follows policymakers and lawmakers paying greater attention to growing criticism that the firms earn billions of dollars in sales here annually but pay no taxes. Naver, Kakao…

Exploit contest opened for tykes – meanwhile, Republicans kill new funding for election security Last year, the hackers at DEF CON showed how shockingly easy it was to crack into voting machine software and hardware. Next week, the 2018 conference’s Vote Hacking Village will let kids have a shot at subverting democracy.… …read more Source::…

New contest at DEF CON lets kids ages 8 to 16 hunt for vulnerabilities in replicas of states’ election-results websites. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Buy a Z3 this year, get 5G next year. …read more Source:: CNet