Day: October 3, 2018

eBay tells Amazon: ‘Stop stealing our sellers’ – CNET

eBay sends a cease and desist order, claiming Amazon was illegally poaching its seller. …read more Source:: CNet


Asteroid lander snaps pic of its shadow as it touches down – CNET

Hayabusa 2’s Mascot lander has taken the plunge to asteroid Ryugu, a “land full of wonder, mystery and danger.” …read more Source:: CNet


Friday Hack Chat: Is There Life On Mars?

Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise a kid. In fact, it’s cold as hell. There’s no one there to raise them if you did, or is there? Is there life on Mars? That’s the question NASA has been trying to answer for the last forty years, and with the new Mars rover, we…


Jeff Bezos unseats Bill Gates on Forbes 400 list of richest Americans – CNET

Amazon’s CEO has a net worth of $160 billion. …read more Source:: CNet


Chilling Adventures of Sabrina full trailer is finally here – CNET

The new Netflix series lands October 26, just in time to make your Halloween magical. …read more Source:: CNet


The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job

Brian Merchant, writing for The Atlantic (condensed for space): In 2016, an anonymous confession appeared on Reddit: “From around six years ago up until now, I have done nothing at work.” As far as office confessions go, that might seem pretty tepid. But this coder, posting as FiletOFish1066, said he worked for a well-known tech…


Putting Security on Par with DevOps

Inside the cloud, innovation and automation shouldn’t take a toll on protection. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Retrotechtacular: Disposing of Sodium, 1947-Style

A high school friend once related the story about how his father, a chemist for an environmental waste concern, disposed of a problematic quantity of metallic sodium by dumping it into one of the more polluted rivers in southern New England. Despite the fact that the local residents were used to seeing all manner of…


Cellphones Across the US Will Receive a ‘Presidential Alert’ at 2:18 pm Eastern Today

At 2:18 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, cellphones across the United States will emit the ominous ring of an emergency presidential alert. From a report: It will be the first nationwide test of a wireless emergency alert system, designed to warn people of a dire threat, like a terror attack, pandemic or natural disaster. There is…


Nintendo Switch Online gets three more NES games next week – CNET

Hop onto the golf course, battle through dungeons and dodge a ball. …read more Source:: CNet