The Guardian learned that the suspected mass shooter at an El Paso, Texas Walmart “is believed to also have posted a white nationalist rant on 8chan” — then interviewed the CEO of the company hosting it. If the connection between the 21-year-old suspect in Saturday’s massacre and the 8chan document is confirmed — and law…

Good news about 5G and bad news about the camera — the latest rumors about the 2020 iPhones paint a clearer picture of what we can expect from Apple next year. …read more Source:: CNet

“Facebook still can’t avoid widespread outages, it seems,” writes Engadget: Numerous reports have surfaced of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp being unavailable to various degrees on the morning of August 4th. The failure doesn’t appear to have been as dramatic as it was in July, when image services were out for several hours (we had at…

In advance of the Galaxy Note 10 announcement, Samsung revealed the very capable Tab S6 while Google keeps showing more features of the upcoming Pixel 4 smartphones. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Apple CEO speaks out after two shootings in 24 hours claim 29 lives. …read more Source:: CNet

We’re all familiar with the “Black Box” used on commercial aircraft, the flight data recorder which captures the minutia of each and every flight on the off-chance that it’s needed in the event of an accident. But even in less dire circumstances, the complete record of the aircraft’s performance versus what was commanded of it…

Slashdot reader Artem S. Tashkinov writes: Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen have recently disclosed two new additional bugs impacting WPA3. The security researched duo found the new bugs in the security recommendations the WiFi Alliance created for equipment vendors in order to mitigate the initial Dragonblood attacks [found by the same two security researchers]. “Just…

PolygamousRanchKid quotes CNN: French inventor Franky Zapata has successfully crossed the Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard for the first time, after a failed attempt last month. Zapata took off from Sangatte, northern France early on Sunday morning and landed in St. Margarets Bay, near Dover in England. The journey took just over 20 minutes, according…

List of vulnerable products purchased by the DoD includes Lexmark printers, GoPro cameras, and Lenovo computers. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Best Buy is offering deals on Kindle e-readers, Apple Watch Series 3 and 4, Surface devices, and more. …read more Source:: ZDNet