Congress must do more to encourage good Samaritan efforts in the cybersecurity community and make it easier for law enforcement to consistently collaborate with them. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Many Hackaday readers will be settling back into their lives after a holiday period crammed into some family matriarch’s house along with too many assorted relatives, having given up their speedy internet connection for whatever passes for broadband wherever Granny lives. The bargain-basement router supplied by the telephone company will have spent the period wilting…

Looks like the punch-hole notch wins. …read more Source:: CNet

Lexus’ full-size hybrid sedan joins Toyota Research Institute’s autonomous test fleet this spring. …read more Source:: CNet

Somebody call the waaaaaambulance The prankster who hijacked printers and smart TV gizmos to promote YouTube star Pewdiepie has shut down their website, citing “the constant pressure of being afraid of being caught and prosecuted.” No sh*t, Sherlock.… …read more Source:: Register

Throughout 2018, researchers inside and outside Intel continued to find exploitable weaknesses related to Meltdown and Spectre class of “speculative execution” vulnerabilities. Fixing many of them takes not just software patches, but conceptually rethinking how processors are made. From a report: At the center of these efforts for Intel is STORM, the company’s strategic offensive…

Jon Bernthal brings back Frank Castle as Netflix announces the season 2 release date. …read more Source:: CNet

Password-manager Blur and role-playing game Town of Salem both disclosed data breaches this week that impacted a combined 10 million. …read more Source:: Threatpost

If you’re like me, chances are pretty good that you’ve been taught that all the elements of the modern computer user interface — programs running in windows, menus, icons, WYSIWYG editing of text documents, and of course, the venerable computer mouse — descended from the hallowed halls of the Xerox Corporation’s Palo Alto Research Center…

The company will also show off its next generation of shared scooters. …read more Source:: CNet