Long-time Slashdot reader trolman scared this scathing editorial by security researcher Brian Krebs: If you are somehow under the impression that you — the customer — are in control over the security, privacy and integrity of your mobile phone service, think again. And you’d be forgiven if you assumed the major wireless carriers or federal…

Long-time Slashdot reader Huxley_Dunsany writes: After much work rebuilding and upgrading it, my Macintosh SE/30 from 1989 is now connected via Ethernet to the Web, and is hosting a simple website and old-style “guestbook.” The site has been online for a few days (other than semi-frequent reboots of the system when it gets overloaded with…

We spent a couple of hours with the Note 10 and Note 10 Plus, while also selling off the iPad Pro 11 to use a Note 9 as a home computer. It was mostly a Samsung show with some Sony and Chrome topics too. …read more Source:: ZDNet

“In the 3D content creation space, where are lot of professional 3D software costs anywhere from 2K to 8K Dollars a license, people have always hoped that the free, open source 3D software Blender would some day be up to the job of replacing expensive commercial 3D software packages,” writes Slashdot reader dryriver: This never…

Remember the TiVo? The set-top DVR that was once so popular of a hacking target that Hackaday had a dedicated subdomain for it has today largely faded into obscurity as time-shifted viewing has given way to Internet streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. But make no mistake, while the TiVo may no longer be the…

The mutant cat-humans in the preview are hiss-terical, but there’s more to the upcoming movie than Twitter jokes. …read more Source:: CNet

Artem S. Tashkinov writes: Researchers from security company Eclypsium have discovered that more than forty drivers from at least twenty different vendors — including every major BIOS vendor, as well as hardware vendors like ASUS, Toshiba, NVIDIA, and Huawei — include critical vulnerabilities allowing an escalation of privileges to full system level access. Considering how…

The voting machine was supposed to be available for hackers to find security flaws. An unexpected bug stopped the experiment from starting until Defcon’s day. …read more Source:: CNet

The Washington Post describes a parent whose phone “rings 10 times a day with notifications from the summer camp’s facial-recognition service, which alerts him whenever one of his girls is photographed enjoying their newfound independence.” Cory Doctorow reports: You can also call your kid if you think they look unhappy or if you are unsatisfied…

Reclusive author’s estate was seen as one of the major literary e-book holdouts. …read more Source:: CNet