“American luxury retailer Neiman Marcus Group has just disclosed a major data breach impacting approximately 4.6 million customers,” reports Ars Technica. “The breach occurred sometime in May 2020 after ‘an unauthorized party’ obtained the personal information of some Neiman Marcus customers from their online accounts.” Neiman Marcus is working with law enforcement agencies and has…

The shot was taken Friday about 1,500 miles from Mercury, during the first of six scheduled flybys of the planet. …read more Source:: CNet

“Like a half-filled bag of salty snacks, there simply aren’t enough semiconductor chips to go around these days,” writes CNET. “At General Motors, the crisis struck one of its biggest cash cows as Cadillac confirmed too few chips led it to scrap the Super Cruise [hands-free highway driving] feature from its flagship Escalade SUV.” Slashdot…

With mass vaccination programmes and careful application of public health measures it almost feels for some of us as though the pandemic is under control. Any thoughts of it being over are illusory though, and if further reminders were needed we have the news that once more this year’s Chaos Communication Congress has been cancelled…

An anonymous reader writes: This week saw the annual check-in with Linux creator Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America, this year held in Seattle (as well as virtually). Torvalds took the stage for the event’s traditional half-hour of questions from Dirk Hohndel, an early Linux contributor (now also the chief open source…

The former president asks a US court to issue a preliminary injunction that would restore his Twitter access. …read more Source:: CNet

Last month U.S. President Biden issued “a mandate that all companies with more than 100 workers require vaccination or weekly testing,” remembers the New York Times, and “also moved to mandate shots for health care workers, federal contractors and a vast majority of federal workers, who could face disciplinary measures if they refuse.” So what…

Bond movies are big productions with high ambitions. Linus Sandgren talked with us about how the blockbuster 007 film came together. …read more Source:: CNet

Netflix’s co-CEO revealed a list Monday showing its top shows and movies of all-time, reports NBC News. The list revealed that the 19th-century drama Bridgerton “was its most watched TV series ever, with 82 million subscribers tuning in for at least two minutes in its first 28 days on the service…” French series “Lupin: Part…

For a long time fixed wing VTOL drones were tricky to work with, but with the availability of open source flight control and autopilot software this has changed. To make experimentation even easier, [Stephen Carlson] and other researchers from the RoboWork Lab at the University of Nevada created the MiniHawk, a 3D printed VTOL aircraft…