How does Apple’s most affordable high-end iPhone compare to the iPhone 8 Plus of 2017? …read more Source:: CNet

Keep tabs on the rumors about Google’s upcoming marquee phones. …read more Source:: CNet

jwhyche (Slashdot reader #6,192) shared this article from Sophos: Linux systems running kernels prior to 5.0.8 require patching after news emerged of a high-severity flaw that could be remotely exploited. According to the NIST advisory, CVE-2019-1181 is a race condition affecting the kernel’s rds_tcp_kill_sock in net/rds/tcp.c “leading to a use-after-free, related to net namespace cleanup.”…

Keanu Reeves’ haunted hit man returns for another bullet ballet. Check out our spoiler-free review. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes Fierce Wireless: Earlier this week, the New York Times published a story with the headline “Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise.” [Non-paywalled MSN version here.] The story outlined how RT, the Russia-backed and U.S.-based television network, has been peddling 5G cancer fear-mongering stories, making…

You can find all kinds of robots at Bay Area Maker Faire, but far and away the most interesting bot this year is the Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube built by [Takashi Kaburagi]. Gently mix up the colored sides of the cube, set it down for just a moment, and it will spring to life, sorting itself…

If you plan to put money down on your favorite character sitting on the Iron Throne, read this before you place a bet. …read more Source:: CNet

Long-time Slashdot reader solardiz has long bring an advocate for bringing security to open environments. Wednesday he contacted Slashdot to share this update about a piece of software he’s authored called John the Ripper: John the Ripper is the oldest still evolving password cracker program (and Open Source project), first released in 1996. John the…

The bankruptcy of one of America’s largest coal producers revealed that the company was helping to fund “think tanks that have attacked the link between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change, as well as to several conservative advocacy groups that have attempted to undermine policies intended to shift the economy toward renewable energy,”…

Get paid to tweet like a royal. …read more Source:: CNet