“A few years ago, a hacker managed to exploit vulnerabilities in Tesla’s servers to gain access and control over the automaker’s entire fleet,” remembers Electrek (in a story shared by long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo). Tesla enthusiast Jason Hughes had already received a $5,000 bug bounty for reporting a vulnerability, but “knowing that their network wasn’t…

An anonymous reader shares a fascinating true-crime story from Pittsburgh. Smithsonian magazine reports: Like nuclear power plants and sensitive computer networks, the safest rare book collections are protected by what is known as “defense in depth” — a series of small, overlapping measures designed to thwart a thief who might be able to overcome a…

We’ve tested a lot of outdoor home security cameras. Here’s the best of the best. …read more Source:: CNet

Once you graduate beyond development boards like the Arduino or Wemos D1, you’ll find yourself in the market for a dedicated programmer. In most cases, your needs can be met with a cheap USB to serial adapter that’s not much bigger than a flash drive. The only downside is that you’ve got to manually wire…

Looking for a set of over-ear cans? These are CNET’s current top picks. …read more Source:: CNet

“Optimism” may be one of the greatest acronyms NASA has ever dreamed up. …read more Source:: CNet

On the 25th anniversary of Java, Oracle’s director of developer content released a list of the 25 greatest Java apps ever written. This week they shared the responses it got. “The U.S. National Security Agency was secretly pleased we noticed its Ghidra binary decompilation tool…” The tenor of conversation was both positive and polite. That…

They were still Excel documents. Just not your typical Excel files. Enough to trick some security systems, though. …read more Source:: ZDNet

HBO Max is now the premium network’s main streaming app that also offers a bunch of extra shows, movies and originals — but there are some complications. The biggest: Max still isn’t on Roku or Amazon Fire TV. …read more Source:: CNet

Mulan is the latest big movie to hit Disney Plus, but it adds the wrinkle of charging a one-time fee if you want to watch it. Here’ everything to know about that and Disney Plus in general. …read more Source:: CNet