Doctor Who’s series 11 trailer premieres at San Diego Comic-Con 2018 with a simple question: “Will you be my new best friends?” …read more Source:: CNet

Thousands of artificial intelligence experts are calling on governments to take preemptive action before it’s too late. The list is extensive and includes some of the most influential names in the overlapping worlds of technology, science and academia. From a report: Among them are billionaire inventor and OpenAI founder Elon Musk, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn,…

This movie tie-in is one you can take home with you, and it goes way more in-depth than that Nissan Rogue One thing. …read more Source:: CNet

Hackers are embedding malicious code within compromised, uploaded images on trusted Google sites – weaponizing the website and staying under the radar. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Backblaze attempts to blow some mist away Analysis What do data durability numbers mean? Azure brags 12 and even 16 nines durability, while Amazon S3, Google Cloud Platform and Backblaze tout 11 nines. What does this mean?… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Two vulnerabilities were discovered on Dongguan Diqee-branded vacuum cleaners, Thursday. …read more Source:: Threatpost

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft detected and helped block hacking attempts against three congressional candidates this year, a company executive said Thursday, marking the first known example of cyber interference in the midterm elections. “Earlier this year, we did discover that a fake Microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for…

Moscow’s agents used one-time pads, er, two times – ой! Work by the British against Russian cryptographic cyphers in the 1920s and 1930s was declassified this week, providing fascinating insights into a previously obscure part of the history of code breaking.… …read more Source:: Register

Every scrap of power is precious when it comes to power harvesting, and working with such designs usually means getting cozy with a microcontroller’s low-power tricks and sleep modes. But in the case of the Ultra Low Power Energy Harvester design by [bobricius], the attached microcontroller doesn’t need to worry about managing power at all…

A little bit of safety, a little bit of cheapness. …read more Source:: CNet