Day: March 20, 2019

China’s E-Buses Dent Oil Demand More Than Electric Cars Do

China’s fleet of electric buses appear to be denting oil demand more than electric cars. “By the end of this year, a cumulative 270,000 barrels a day of diesel demand will have been displaced by electric buses, most of it in China,” reports Bloomberg, citing a new report published by BloombergNEF. “That’s more than three…


McAfee ordered to pay $25m over claimed torture, murder of his Belize neighbor

Good luck, says anti-virus pioneer, I have no assets John McAfee has been ordered to pay $25m for the wrongful death of Gregory Faull, his former neighbor in Belize, but refuses to pay and claims he has no assets.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Mac-Focused Malvertising Campaign Abuses Google Firebase DBs

Researchers said 1 million user sessions could have been exposed to the campaign, which downloads the Shlayer trojan. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Oculus Unveils the Rift S, a Higher-Resolution VR Headset With Built-In Tracking

Oculus VR unveiled the Oculus Rift S, a higher-resolution pair of virtual reality goggles that remove the need for external cameras by incorporating built-in tracking. The company partnered with Lenovo “to help it speed up manufacturing and to improve upon the design of the original Rift,” reports The Verge. From the report: The result is…


Post-Perimeter Security: Addressing Evolving Mobile Enterprise Threats

Experts from Gartner, Lookout and Google talk enterprise mobile security in this webinar replay. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Facebook Messenger rolls out threaded replies to help you follow conversations – CNET

You can finally know exactly what your friends are responding to. …read more Source:: CNet


Streaming and Cloud Computing Endanger Modding and Game Preservation

Services like Google’s Stadia seem convenient, but they could completely change the past and future of video games, writes Rich Whitehouse, a video game preservationist and veteran programmer in the video game industry. From the story: For most of today’s games, modding isn’t an especially friendly process. There are some exceptions, but for the most…


Within Google Cloud, a computer is muttering: Shall we play a game? Wouldn’t you prefer a nice game of SaaS?

Come for the on-demand servers, stay for the sweet documentation On a rainy Wednesday morning in San Francisco, Google pitched its Cloud Platform (GCP) to power games, and brought friends along to sing its praises at the annual Games Developer’s Conference.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Renegade Android apps can siphon off your web logins, browser history. So make sure Chrome or OS is patched, friends

Kit-Kat API whacked, don’t give hackers your phone. This WebView came rolling home Smartphones and other gadgets running Android 4.4 or later contain a bug that can be exploited by rogue apps to steal website login tokens and spy on owners’ browsing histories.… …read more Source:: Register


An ESP8266 Sundial For Your Wall

Hackers absolutely love building clocks. Seriously, there are few other devices for which we’ve seen such an incredible number of variations. But while the clocks that hackers build might blink out the time in binary, or write it out in words, they generally don’t feature hands. Apparently in 2019 it’s more reasonable to read binary…