“When you turn on the setting in your browser that says ‘Do Not Track’, you probably expect to no longer be tracked on most websites you visit. Right? Well, you would be wrong,” explains DuckDuckGo’s blog. Their recent study found “a quarter of people have turned on this setting” — representing hundreds of millions of…

An anonymous reader quotes LWN.net: Version 1.0.0 of the GNU Guix package manager has been released. “This 1.0 release is a major milestone for Guix. It represents 7 years of hard work with more than 40,000 commits by 260 people, 19 releases, and an equally amazing amount of work on documentation, translation, artwork, web design,…

Magecart group breached PrismRBS and modified the PrismWeb​ e-commerce platform. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Commentary: The foldable phone’s 7.3-inch screen would be the perfect home for a digital pen. …read more Source:: CNet

ZDNet asked the question — pointing to a RedMonk survey which found TypeScript jumped in popularity from #16 to #12 over the last six months (based on its usage in GitHub projects and in questions on Stack Overflow). The reason for this rise can be found in the latest survey of 33,000 developers from 156…

Light painting is the process of moving a light while taking a long-exposure photograph, which creates a sort of drawing from the path of the light source. It’s been done in one way or another since at least the early-to-mid 1900s, but modern hardware and methods have allowed for all kinds of new spins on…

The Audiophiliac comes away mightily impressed by the Schiit Aegir amp. …read more Source:: CNet

Don’t buy the Massdrop X Meze 99 Noir just because they’re beautiful — they sound great, too. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader shares a report: Smart cities are designed to make life easier for their residents: better traffic management by clearing routes, making sure the public transport is running on time and having cameras keeping a watchful eye from above. But what happens when that data leaks? One such database was open for weeks…

“I was very conscious the audience wasn’t hit over the head with the sound,” says Juan Peralta of Skywalker Sound. (No spoilers!) …read more Source:: CNet