The two airlines could coordinate flight pricing, sales and frequent flyer programs. …read more Source:: CNet

The group was posing as a researcher from Cambridge, and was found to have added three new malware families to its spy arsenal. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Ice covering the Arctic Ocean reached the second-lowest level recorded for this time of year after July temperatures spiked in areas around the North Pole. From a report: The rate of ice loss in the region is a crucial indicator for the world’s climate and a closely-watched metric by bordering nations jostling for resources and…

Hackers are breaching college networks and creating fake accounts that are used “almost immediately for criminal activity.” …read more Source:: ZDNet

Contractor Martin sentenced for squirreling away 50TB of hush-hush files, exploits An ex-NSA contractor who admitted stashing some 50TB of secret US government documents and exploit code at his home was today sentenced to nine years behind bars.… …read more Source:: Register

Third-party tracking is rampant on sites like Pornhub, with users’ sexual preferences on full view. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Dan Goodin, reporting for ArsTechnica: When we use browsers to make medical appointments, share tax returns with accountants, or access corporate intranets, we usually trust that the pages we access will remain private. DataSpii, a newly documented privacy issue in which millions of people’s browsing histories have been collected and exposed, shows just how much…

One hit by robo-ride, another injured in US, Austrian trials Two driverless vehicle trials were temporarily halted this week after self-driving mini-buses encountered obstacles – or think they did – resulting in minor injuries to a rider and a pedestrian.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The French company will instead focus on its Anafi camera drone line, according to a report. …read more Source:: CNet

A tiny and relatively unknown TLS library written in Rust, an up-and-coming programming language, outperformed the industry-standard OpenSSL in almost every major category. From a report: The findings are the result of a recent four-part series of benchmarks carried out by Joseph Birr-Pixton, the developer behind the Rustls library. The findings showed that Rustls was…