New submitter rokahasch writes: Starting today, August 10th, most users of the Dropbox desktop app on Linux have been receiving notifications that their Dropbox will stop syncing starting November. Over at the Dropbox forums, Dropbox have declared that the only Linux filesystem supported for storage of the Dropbox sync folder starting the 7th of November…

It’s best not to stare at your phone screens in the dark. …read more Source:: CNet

Simon Belmont, King K. Rool, Dark Samus, a ton of stages and music and more. …read more Source:: CNet

Dive into a weird and wonderful ‘feature’ of Via’s embedded hardware chips Black Hat A forgotten family of x86-compatible processors still used in specialist hardware, and touted for “military-grade security features,” has a backdoor that malware and rogue users can exploit to completely hijack systems.… …read more Source:: Register

Famous car hackers Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller returned to Black Hat to discuss how manufacturers can secure autonomous vehicles. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Students from Fast.ai, a small organization that runs free machine-learning courses online, just created an AI algorithm that outperforms code from Google’s researchers, per an important benchmark. From a report: Fast.ai’s success is important because it sometimes seems as if only those with huge resources can do advanced AI research. Fast.ai consists of part-time students…

Commentary: Is Samsung’s Gear VR headset in a slump, or a transformation? …read more Source:: CNet

And revs up those daft Apple Car rumors Dan Field, Tesla’s VP of engineering, and the man in charge of the Tesla Model 3 until May, is to rejoin Apple, the tech titan confirmed this week.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

An Emmys nod brought to light the official season 7 finale script, and now fans are debating what Viserion the dragon really is. …read more Source:: CNet

We break down Samsung’s big Unpacked press event, and open up to audience Q&A on the Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Home and Galaxy Watch. …read more Source:: CNet