The Iron Throne seems within the grasp of a brave few, but surely many will perish before then. A few sites hope your wallet will be among the casualties. …read more Source:: CNet

Expect a price close to a midrange smartphone. …read more Source:: CNet

Chipzilla adds to IT admins security update load While admins were busy wrangling with the mass of security patches from Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP last week, Intel slipped out a fix for a potentially serious flaw in its Software Guard Extensions (SGX) feature.… …read more Source:: Register

Tesla will be the first auto company to be a willing subject in the annual hacking competition. Winner gets a Model 3. …read more Source:: CNet

The closest some of us at Hackaday get to a green thumb comes when we are painting, so for us and other folks not gifted in the gardening department Bionic Cactus might help. It’s a neatly designed water and light control system, built around an ESP8266. You can control the system through a web interface,…

A California judge has ruled that American cops can’t force people to unlock a mobile phone with their face or finger. The ruling goes further to protect people’s private lives from government searches than any before and is being hailed as a potentially landmark decision. From a report: Previously, U.S. judges had ruled that police…

EFF slams bad eggs for trying to censor instructions on how to unlock gizmos from app Bird has apologized for sending a legal threat to a blogger who outlined how its scooters-for-hire – those electric gizmos littering city streets – can have their motherboards replaced to unlock them from their app, and driven away.… …read…

Small biz raises doubts over value of social network’s ad tech Analysis Imagine a store where you go in, pay money, and sometimes leave empty-handed. That’s digital advertising on social media in a nutshell because it’s seemingly full of fraud.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Zorro shares a report: Commuters inching through rush-hour traffic in the Holland Tunnel between Lower Manhattan and New Jersey don’t know it, but a technology likely to be the future of communication is being tested right outside their car windows. Running through the tunnel is a fiber-optic cable that harnesses the power of quantum mechanics…

Yes, the PlayStation 4 too. …read more Source:: CNet