A lack of security training for interns, and their obsession with sharing content on social media, could lead to a perfect storm for hackers looking to collect social engineering data. …read more Source:: Threatpost

An anonymous reader quotes a report from BuzzFeed News: A New York school district will move forward with its facial recognition pilot program next week, despite an explicit order from the New York State Education Department that it wait until a standard for data privacy and security for all state educational agencies is finalized. On…

What a radical idea Maine is about to become the latest US state to – and get this – mandate that ISPs obtain subscribers’ permission before selling their data to advertisers.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Mars or Jupiter? Sometimes it’s hard to tell. …read more Source:: CNet

Oklahoma City is the slowest, OpenSignal says. …read more Source:: CNet

It’s pretty much a given that next week’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference will bring new versions of MacOS and iOS. The real question is just how much convergence there will be between the 2 operating systems. From a report: The Mac remains popular even as the bulk of Apple’s business is now selling phones and…

Google Project Zero researcher unearths a bug in Microsoft’s Notepad Windows application. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Apple, which has already introduced “dark mode” in macOS, is widely expected to replicate this in its mobile operating system iOS this year. The move comes as a number of technology companies introduce dark mode in their apps and operating systems. But is it something everyone wants? TidBITS: When text is white on a black…

We live in an era in which all manner of displays are cheap and readily available. A few dollars spent online can net you a two-line alphanumeric LCD, a graphical OLED screen, or all manner of other options. Years ago however, people made do with little monolithic LED devices. [sjm4306] wanted to recreate something similar,…

How much information do these apps need? …read more Source:: CNet