With the winter months not far off, [Ben Brooks] was looking for a way to help circulate the heat from his wood-burning fireplace throughout his home. Rather than go with a commercial solution, he decided to come up with his own automated air circulation system powered by the mesh networking capabilities of one of his…

Digital dosh scorned as a threat to national sovereignty On Thursday Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency has received a Gallic dismissal courtesy of France’s finance minister.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Five nabbed over conspiracy to commit a public nuisance Five people have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police for threatening to fly drones around London’s Heathrow airport this Friday to protest climate change.… …read more Source:: Register

Kate Marvel, writing for Scientific American: We are, I promise you, not doomed, no matter what Jonathan Franzen says. We could be, of course, if we decided we really wanted to. We have had the potential for total annihilation since 1945, and the capacity for localized mayhem for as long as societies have existed. Climate…

Sandboxie is now a free download. Source code to be open-sourced at a later date. …read more Source:: ZDNet

UK MPs have called for the government to regulate the games industry’s use of loot boxes under current gambling legislation — urging a blanket ban on the sale of loot boxes to players who are children. From a report: Kids should instead be able to earn in-game credits to unlock look boxes, MPs have suggested…

The FBI and CISA issued an alert the same week researchers disclosed a new campaign launched by actors with North Korean ties. …read more Source:: DarkReading

The amber DNA in Jurassic Park? That’s you, that is Stamping your footprints on the Moon’s surface remains an impossible bucket-list ambition for practically all of us over the age of two. But for $99 you might still be able to leave a DNA footprint there.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Now the launch of AMD’s second generation Epyc server processor is in the books, the chipmaker is broadening its customer base. …read more Source:: ZDNet

And they’re even cheaper at Amazon. …read more Source:: CNet