Month: December 2018

Best streaming movies of 2018: The lazy moviegoer’s guide – CNET

Those trailers looked so enticing, but if you never made it out to the cineplex, here’s your home list. …read more Source:: CNet


FCC To Suspend Most Operations Thursday if the Partial Government Shutdown Continues

The Federal Communications Commission will suspend most operations in the middle of the day January 3 if the partial government shutdown continues, the agency has announced [PDF]. In a statement, it said: In the event of a continued partial lapse in federal government funding, the Federal Communications Commission will suspend most operations in the middle…


35C3: A Deep Dive into DOS Viruses and Pranks

Oh, the hijinks that the early days of the PC revolution allowed. Back in the days when a 20MB hard drive was a big deal and MS-DOS 3.1 ruled over every plain beige PC-clone cobbled together by enthusiasts like myself, it was great fun to “set up” someone else’s machine to do something unexpected. This…


The lazy moviegoer’s guide to the best streaming movies of 2018 – CNET

Those trailers looked so enticing, but if you never made it out to the cineplex, here’s your home list. …read more Source:: CNet


Threatlist: Dark Web Markets See an Evolution in Q3

Vulnerabilities, stolen credentials and an evolution of marketplaces mark the Dark Web in Q3. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Google is Working on a Fix For Laggy Tablet Mode on Chrome OS Devices

An anonymous reader shares a report: Chrome OS was originally a laptop platform, but slowly it’s being reworked for tablet form factors. However, as that goes on, there have been some hiccups. Most recently, many have noted the poor performance of tablet mode especially on Chrome OS products like the Pixel Slate, but it seems…


NASA New Horizons to photograph Ultima Thule in historic New Year’s flyby – CNET

As 2019 nears, the spacecraft is hurtling toward the mysterious space rock Ultima Thule. …read more Source:: CNet


China Gets on the Bandwagon To Provide Global Satellite Internet

Over the weekend, China launched a satellite into low-earth orbit, the first step of a plan to provide global satellite internet to people who still don’t have reliable access. From a report: Nearly 3.8 billion people are unconnected to the internet, and women and rural poor are particularly affected. The satellite, called Hongyun-1, took off…


The Art of Vacuum Tube Fabrication

Vacuum tubes fueled a technological revolution. They made the amplification of signals a reality for transatlantic telephone cables (and transcontinental ones too), they performed logic for early computers, and they delivered that warm fuzzy sound for high fidelity audio. But they were labor intensive to produce, and fragile, so semiconductors came along and replaced tubes…


Severn Bridge, a Main Route Between England and Wales, Shuts as Drone Flown From Tower

A main route between England and Wales was closed after a man climbed a bridge and flew a drone from the top. An anonymous reader shares a report: Traffic was stopped on the M48 — the older of two Severn crossings — because of “concern for welfare,” police said. The man, in his 20s, came…