Last year’s hardware was ho-hum, but Samsung’s got plenty brewing to wow us this year. And it all kicks in next week at CES. …read more Source:: CNet

Politicians, journalists and other public figures targeted German politicians, journalists and other prominent public figures have been doxxed by hackers who distributed their personal data on Twitter, according to local reports.… …read more Source:: Register

Can you really drive an electric car 365 days a year if you live in a land with real winters? We headed to Alaska to find out. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Washington could become the first state to embrace another funerary practice by making it legal to compost the dead. The method is called “recomposing” and claims to be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than traditional burial or cremation. It involves rapidly decomposing a body and converting the…

Matrix Industries wants to find ways to keep the connected world of tomorrow running forever, via heat, solar and maybe other sources. …read more Source:: CNet

Apple fans will not be able to purchase some iPhone models as the battle continues. …read more Source:: ZDNet

One day you’re in, declares Heidi Klum’s prophecy, and the next day you’re out. Microsoft Windows may matter less to the modern world today. That’s fine, because there are other issues deserving our attention. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An unscheduled patch fixed two critical flaws that could enable arbitrary code execution. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Anyone who has an interest and/or career in manufacturing would have heard of Kaizen, generally a concept to continuously improve your process everywhere. Under that huge umbrella is Karakuri Kaizen, encouraging workers on the factory floor to adopt a hacker mentality and improve their own work stations. It is right up our alley, manufacturer or…

This time it’s an auditor who literally can’t say no A government-sponsored committee has rubberstamped the UK’s online porn age verification plans despite poking holes in the China-style surveillance plan.… …read more Source:: TheRegister