A hacker — or potentially a group of hackers — has made over 200 Bitcoin (circa $750,000 at today’s exchange) using a clever attack on the infrastructure of the Electrum Bitcoin wallet over the last one week. From a report: The attack resulted in legitimate Electrum wallet apps showing a message on users’ computers, urging…

LG has announced the SL10YG, SL9YG and SL8YG sound bars which include Google’s voice assistant and support for both Dolby Atmos and DTS:X …read more Source:: CNet

The joining of ‘deep learning’ and ‘fake news’ makes it possible to create audio and video of real people saying words they never spoke or things they never did. …read more Source:: DarkReading

2018 is almost over, and we have another year in the dataset: an improbable number of celebrities died in 2016. The stock market is down, and everyone thinks a crash is coming. Journalists are being killed around the world. Fidget spinners aren’t cool anymore. Fortnite. Trade wars. But not everything is terrible: Makerbot released a…

It’s been 21 years since we’ve had a Defender for sale in the US, and in less than two years, we’ll have another. …read more Source:: CNet

The developer of the popular image editing tool Paint.NET, Rick Brewster, has shared his vision of what the coming year holds for his software. The 2019 roadmap for Paint.NET is an exciting one, promising migration to .NET Core, support for brushes and pressure sensitivity, and an expanded plugin system. BetaNews: Changes are on the cards…

Commentary: In 2018, the Star Wars fandom couldn’t help but tear itself apart. One fearless princess would have cut through the noise. …read more Source:: CNet

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Several remarkable movies and shows hit the theaters and TV this year. We had “Black Panther”, new “Incredibles”, “Avengers: Infinity War”, more “Star Wars” and “Mission: Impossible” hit the cinemas. On TV, we saw the conclusion of “The Americans”, continuation of “Westworld” on HBO, and “Homecoming” arrive on Amazon Prime Video. “Money Heist” on Netflix,…