Weird Hyundai is best Hyundai. …read more Source:: CNet

Low-cost boxes that promise free TV streaming services often come complete with malware, according to a new study. …read more Source:: DarkReading

New submitter scullyitsaliens writes: The Reddit clone Voat has reportedly been contacted by a “US agency” about threats being made on the censorship-free website, according to its founder Justin Chastain. In a post on Wednesday, Chastain (who goes by PuttItOut on Voat) told users they need to “chill on the ‘threats,’” as the platform had…

Be very careful if you’re confronted by Google’s Avengers: Endgame Easter egg. …read more Source:: CNet

The changes aren’t big, but it makes your inbox look a bit more like mobile Gmail. …read more Source:: CNet

If free nations demand companies store data locally, it legitimizes that practice for authoritarian nations, which can then steal that data for their own nefarious purposes, according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. From a report: He laid out the threat in a new 93-minute video of a discussion with Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari released…

Storage requirements embiggened in Redmond’s upcoming OS emission Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10’s voracious appetite for storage remains undiminished in the upcoming May 2019 Update (1903).… …read more Source:: TheRegister

We’re suckers for a good desk toy here at Hackaday, so this 2019 Hackaday Prize entry from [Jack Flynn] certainly caught our eye. The idea is that by using professionally manufactured dual layer PCBs and only surface mount components, you can create a cube that has an LED matrix on each face and all of…

On this week’s Threatpost news wrap, the team discusses Facebook’s FTC fine for its data security practices, a report that Amazon is collecting Echo users’ geolocation data, and more. …read more Source:: Threatpost

A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one. …read more Source:: CNet