Mark Wilson writes: Microsoft has a new open source project — Project Mu. This is the company’s open-source release of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) core which is currently used by Surface devices and Hyper-V. With the project, Microsoft hopes to make it easier to build scalable and serviceable firmware, and it embraces the…

For the first time, a robot has been unionized. This shouldn’t be too surprising as a European Union resolution has already recommended creating a legal status for robots for purposes of liability and a robot has already been made a citizen of one country. Naturally, these have been done either to stimulate discussion before reality…

Dell tech (EMC and VMware) utterly dominate with Nutanix following HPE, Cisco and NetApp are grabbing at the tail end of a fast-growing converged/hyper-converged market that is utterly dominated by Dell’s EMC and VMware businesses and HCI specialist Nutanix.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

A user of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant in Germany got access to more than a thousand recordings from another user because of “a human error” by the company. From a report: The customer had asked to listen back to recordings of his own activities made by Alexa but he was also able to access 1,700…

A Facebook partnership with Netflix, Dropbox, Spotify, and Royal Bank of Canada gave them access to messages. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Microsoft issued an out-of-band patch for a zero day bug in its Internet Explorer browser. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Gatwick’s runway has been shut since Wednesday night, when two devices were seen flying over the perimeter fence. The airport said at about 12:00 GMT on Thursday a drone had been spotted “in the last hour” and the runway would not open “until it was safe to do so”. From a report: About 110,000 passengers…

This is the third Windows zero-day the researcher dumps online in the last five months. …read more Source:: ZDNet

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: The Treasury Department has leveled sanctions against 16 current and former GRU intelligence officers (some of whom were targeted in earlier indictments) for their involvement in multiple campaigns against the U.S., including the Democratic National Committee hacks, World Anti-Doping Agency hacks and election meddling efforts. The targets…