An anonymous reader writes: A 44-year-old, Georgia-based programmer — who’d been working at Equifax since 2003 — has been sentenced to eight months of home confinement and a $50,000 fine for insider trading. Working as Equifax’s Production Development Manager of Software Engineering in August of 2017, he’d been asked to create a web site where…

Red Hat and F5 Networks acknowledge that some products are vulnerable to the libssh authentication bug. …read more Source:: ZDNet

There are a few different ways of getting firmware onto one of AVR’s ATtiny85 microcontrollers, including bootloaders that allow for firmware to be updated without the need to plug the chip into a programmer. However, [casanovg] wasn’t satisfied with those so he sent us a tip letting us know he wrote an I2C bootloader for…

Incredibly enough, the Audiophiliac is smitten with the Tribit XSound Go Bluetooth speaker! …read more Source:: CNet

Which iPhone XR models are showing shipment delays and what we’re expecting at Apple’s next launch event. Catch up on all your iPhone news for the week. …read more Source:: CNet

Also applications are now open for OpenAI’s Scholars programme Roundup Hello, here’s a quick roundup of interesting or useful bits of AI news that happened this week.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Sensitive information belonging to roughly 75,000 individuals was exposed after a government healthcare sign-up system got hacked, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said on Friday. The agency said that “anomalous system activity” was detected last week in the Direct Enrollment system, which Americans use…

See how Apple’s new 2018 iPhones compare spec-by-spec with last year’s iPhone X. …read more Source:: CNet

Incredibly enough, the Audiophiliac is smitten with the Tribit XSound Go Bluetooth speaker! …read more Source:: CNet

It’s only got one lens, while the iPhone XS has two. But what else is different? …read more Source:: CNet