It seems like SCADA hacking is still a topic in hacker conferences, and it should be with SCADA systems still driving power stations, manufacturing plants, refineries and all kinds of other powerful and dangerous things. The latest talk given on the subject shows with just 4 lines of code and a small hardware drop device…

Storage goes immutable as Redmond plays catch-up Microsoft emitted a preview of immutable storage for Azure Storage Blobs yesterday in an effort to win the hearts and minds of industries weighed down by regulation.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Memory modules using Intel’s 3D XPoint technology are on their way, and researchers in North Carolina have already figured out how to make them better. New submitter mnemotronic writes: At the 45th ICSA (International Symposium on Computer Architecture), a group of researchers from North Carolina State University led by Prof. Yan Solihin proposed a method…

Modern handheld gaming hardware is great. The units are ergonomic powerhouses, yet many of us do all our portable gaming on a painfully rectangular smartphone. Their primary method of interaction is the index finger or thumbs, not a D-pad and buttons. Shoulder triggers have only existed on a few phones. Bluetooth gaming pads are affordable…

Alphabet’s Chronicle security division releases VirusTotal Monitor, a tool for developers to check if their product will be flagged as malware. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Claims German biz used ERP to ‘lure’ them into joint venture Data warehousing biz Teradata has flung a sueball at SAP, alleging the German ERP giant undertook a “decade-long campaign of trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement and antitrust violations”.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The European Union has taken the first step in passing new copyright legislation that critics say will tear the internet apart. From a report: This morning, the EU’s Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) voted in favor of the legislation, called the Copyright Directive. Although most of the directive simply updates technical language for copyright law in…

Using a physical keyboard again is going to be harder than I remembered. …read more Source:: CNet

Return as much as you want … no really. …read more Source:: CNet

The movie chain’s new Stubs A-List is a lot more expensive than MoviePass but has some premium perks for AMC moviegoers. …read more Source:: CNet