Sealed court documents contain company decisions on data and privacy control, The Guardian reports. …read more Source:: CNet

It’s never been cheaper to get Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, ESPN and more to your TV. Here are the best Cyber Monday discounts on our favorite streamers, all of which are available now. …read more Source:: CNet

In 2009 GM equipped 17,000 of its units with “remote ignition block,” a kill switch that can turn off the engine if the car is stolen. But that was just the beginning, according to a story shared by long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo: Imagine this: You’re leaving work, walking to your car, and you find an…

Long-time Microsoft programmer Raymond Chen recently shared a memory about an unusual single-line instruction that was once added into the Windows kernel code — accompanied by an “incredulous” comment from the Microsoft programmer who added it: ; ; Invalidate the processor cache so that any stray gamma ; rays (I’m serious) that may have flipped…

Stephen King, Patricia Highsmith and Neal Stephenson are all on sale. …read more Source:: CNet

Black Friday means the usual cornucopia of deals. Some are good, some are bad — these are the best that remain. …read more Source:: CNet

Normally when you think of a V8 engine you think of pistons driven by exploding fuel, pushing a crankshaft. [Miller’s Planet’s] version doesn’t use pistons, instead it uses solenoids along with a 3D printed crankshaft. The finished product would make a great science project or classroom demonstration of how a crankshaft converts a reciprocal linear…

Friday Greg Kroah-Hartman released stable point releases of Linux kernel 4.19.4, as well as 4.14.83 and 4.9.139. While they were basic maintenance updates, the 4.19.4 and 4.14.83 releases are significant because they also reverted the performance-killing Spectre patches (involving “Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors”, or STIBP) that had been back-ported from Linux 4.20, according to…

Updates include Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, as well as Rear Door Alert. …read more Source:: CNet

Why would an Apple store salesman try to persuade me not to buy Apple’s latest laptop? …read more Source:: ZDNet