An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet: Chinese companies have leaked a whopping 590 million resumes in the first three months of the year, ZDNet has learned from multiple security researchers. Most of the resume leaks have occurred because of poorly secured MongoDB databases and ElasticSearch servers that have been left exposed online without a password, or…

Verizon is hungry to win you over to its 5G model, whatever it takes. …read more Source:: CNet

WWE Wrestlemania 35 is on this Sunday, April 7! Here’s every confirmed match and participant. …read more Source:: CNet

“A test of UK university defences against cyber-attacks found that in every case hackers were able to obtain ‘high-value’ data within two hours,” writes the BBC. Bruce66423 shares their report: The tests were carried out by “ethical hackers” working for Jisc, the agency providing internet services to the UK’s universities and research centres. They were…

From the title, you might think this post is going to be some lame story about someone plugging in some RAM and maybe updating a BIOS. That’s where you’d be wrong. [Downtown Doug Brown] has a much more interesting and instructive story. [Doug] found his motherboard was rated for 8 GB maximum and decided he’d…

An anonymous reader quotes Bloomberg: Unemployed people derive significant psychological benefits from receiving a fixed amount of financial support from the state, according to a landmark experiment into basic income in Finland that highlights the disadvantages of the country’s existing means-tested system. Initial results of the two-year study had already shown that its 2,000 participants…

An anonymous reader writes: “A bad diet kills more people globally than tobacco,” reports Bloomberg, citing a new study funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and published Wednesday in Lancet. The study argues that poor diets led to 11 million deaths in 2017 — and that more than half of them were caused…

Intelligent Tracking protection arrives as off switch for website tattling trait is removed Apple recently released Safari 12.1 for iOS 12.2 and macOS 10.14.4, bringing with it both privacy improvements and an unexpected regression.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

An anonymous reader quotes the BBC: British Columbia-based Carbon Engineering has shown that it can extract CO2 in a cost-effective way. It has now been boosted by $68m in new investment from Chevron, Occidental and coal giant BHP… With its new funding, the company plans to build its first commercial facilities. These industrial-scale direct air…

In the time before smartphones for on-the-go visual entertainment, there were portable TVs. You might think of a portable TV as a luggable device, but the really cool ones were pocket-sized. Perhaps if you are familiar with pocket TVs you’ll be thinking of a Citizen or a Casio with a matchbox-sized LCD, but before those…