The affected BlackBerry software is in nearly 200 million cars as well as thousands of industrial control devices, medical tools and more. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Check out the knobbly rocks and rounded hills that dot the Martian landscape in Curiosity’s gorgeous view of its home on the side of a mountain. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader writes: In an award-winning paper last week, academics said they discovered a way to abuse the TCP protocol, firewalls, and other network middleboxes to launch giant distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against any target on the internet. Authored by computer scientists from the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado…

A security researcher says the massive trove of records included names, birthdates and passport details. …read more Source:: CNet

The current TSA mask mandate for travelers lasts through Sept. 13. …read more Source:: CNet

the_insult_dog writes: Some 10 years after the final Microsoft Silverlight release, some developers still fear being ‘Silverlighted,’ or seeing a development product in which they have invested heavily be abandoned by Microsoft. Microsoft will tell you that official support for Silverlight will end in less than two months, on Oct. 12, 2021. Anyone in the…

NASA says it’s “like a splinter poking out from a plank of wood.” …read more Source:: CNet

Confirmed: The performance sedan will still be available with three pedals and a stick. …read more Source:: CNet

OneHundredAndTen writes: Pi is now known to 62.8 trillion decimal digits. Motherboard adds: Researchers in Switzerland broke the world record for the most accurate value of pi over the weekend, the team announced on Monday. They calculated the first 62.8 trillion digits, surpassing the former record by 12.8 trillion decimal points. Calculation first started in…

A Taliban helpline for people to report looting and violence was blocked, reports the Financial Times. …read more Source:: CNet