The new Disney animated series gives us fan-favorite Star Wars characters. …read more Source:: CNet

“Neither celebrity status nor a reputation as a technological innovator provide an exemption from the federal securities laws,” the SEC said. …read more Source:: CNet

The new iPhones are out — and Google now knows exactly what it’s up against. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In a Tuesday interview with Bloomberg, the head of Panasonic’s Automotive Division said that the company was on track to complete an additional three battery-cell production lines at Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory before the end of this year. That puts the expansion ahead of schedule for completion….

Security consultant Kevin Mitnick explains how email-based phishing attacks compromised Hillary Clinton’s campaign and could be used in the 2018 midterm. …read more Source:: CNet

Support for Skype Classic 7.0 was slated to end this month, but has been delayed due to customer complaints. Now, according to an announcement today, Microsoft is going to officially end support in November. TechCrunch reports: The company is killing Skype 7 support on the desktop on November 1, following suit for mobile and tablets…

This represents a major step in the SEC’s alleged probe of the now infamous “funding secured” tweet. …read more Source:: CNet

The drive, organized by browser maker Mozilla, followed scrutiny of Venmo’s practices. …read more Source:: CNet

Hackers share general public’s love of popular programming language Python, either the world’s most popular programming language or a close runner up, turns out to be the most widely used language for hacking tools.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Over time, both enterprise and government networks have seen the network perimeter blur uncontrollably. …read more Source:: Threatpost