An anonymous reader writes “A lot of us grew up tinkering with electronics and cherishing the one or two reference books we could find that explained exactly what we wanted to know. Nowadays, with internet access widely available and online educational materials coming into their own, we’re going to see a lot more kindred spirits…

Router ONO Hitron CDE-30364 suffers from a cross site request forgery vulnerability…….

Just one Instagram posting by Justin Bieber, of his name on a script, and millions of nerds need defibrillators. But Bieber as Robin? A fascinating idea…….

SpaceGhost writes “Sky News reports that the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) has launched an orbital telescope on a new generation rocket from the Uchinoura Space Centre in Kagoshima, in southwestern Japan. The Epsilon rocket uses an onboard AI for autonomous launch checks by the rocket itself (launch video). A product of renewed focus on reducing…

In a ten part series, our very own Mechanic will talk us through just what goes on ‘under the hood’…….

One shade of Apple’s new colorful and less expensive iPhone already seems to be more popular than others…….

Panic? An accident? Perhaps both. In Indonesia, a Street View driver loses his bearings and causes mayhem…….

An anonymous reader writes “A new report out of Oxford has found that the next 20 years will see 45% of America’s workforce replaced by computerized automation. ‘The authors believe this takeover will happen in two stages. First, computers will start replacing people in especially vulnerable fields like transportation/logistics, production labor, and administrative support. Jobs…

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201309-6 – Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Flash Player, the worst of which could result in execution of arbitrary code. Versions less than 11.2.202.310 are affected…….

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2756-1 – Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors for LDAP, RTPS and NBAP and in the Netmon file parser, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code…….