An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Oracle is named in a lawsuit alleging the company’s executives lied to shareholders when they explained why cloud sales were growing. The investor leading the case, the City of Sunrise Firefighters’ Pension Fund, claimed Oracle engaged in coercion and threats to sell its cloud-computing products, creating an…

NASA’s Sun-chasing Parker Solar Probe successfully launched this morning at 3:31AM. A couple hours later, NASA confirmed that the vessel was healthy. The probe still has a ways to go before it’s conducting scientific studies. “It’ll spend its first week in space deploying its high-gain antenna, the first part of its electric field antennas and…

Every once in a while we spend a show on a single topic and with Samsung’s biggest flagship launch last week that is just what we did on MobileTechRoundup show #441. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The Tiny Solar Energy Module (TSEM) by [Jasper Sikken] is not only physically tiny at one-inch square, but it is all about gathering tiny amounts of solar energy — amounts too small to be useful in a conventional sense — and getting meaningful work done, like charging a battery for later use. Elements that make…

Internal information belonging to hosting provider GoDaddy has been exposed via an error in Amazon’s AWS bucket configuration. According to cybersecurity firm UpGuard, a set of documents were left in an Amazon S3 bucket which was available to the public. ZDNet reports: The information involved in the security breach appeared to describe GoDaddy’s architecture, as…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced he would share the source code for Tesla’s car security software with other manufacturers, adding that it would be “extremely important” to ensure the safety of future self-driving cars. Engadget reports: Musk didn’t provide a timeline for availability, and you might not want to get your hopes up when it…

An anonymous reader quotes a report fro Motherboard: In June, Microsoft announced that it had placed a self-sufficient, waterproof data center off the coast of the Orkney Islands in Scotland. The data center, loaded with 864 servers capable of handling 27.6 petabytes of data, represented the culmination of nearly four years of research and development…

Apple 0-Day allows hackers to mimic mouse-clicks for kernel access, despite mitigations. …read more Source:: Threatpost

We’re producing an occasional series following some of the miniature electric vehicle builds currently underway at a feverish pace to be ready for the upcoming Electromagnetic Field hacker camp in the UK. Today we’re going down to Somerset, where [Rory] has produced a very serviceable machine he calls the Dustbin 7. The Hacky Racers series…

At the DefCon hacking conference on Friday, Rachel Greenstadt, an associate professor of computer science at Drexel University, and Aylin Caliskan, Greenstadt’s former PhD student and now an assistant professor at George Washington University, presented a number of studies they’ve conducted using machine learning techniques to de-anonymize the authors of code samples. “Their work could…