Millions of records containing personal information and medical insurance data were exposed by a database belonging to insurance marketing website MedicareSupplement.com. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Meet the five national finalists and their Google Doodles. …read more Source:: CNet

The major problem with anti-piracy DRM, part 1024 If you bought an ebook through Microsoft’s online store, now’s the time to give it a read, or reread, because it will stop working early July.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Microsoft’s transformation into a fully paid-up member of the Linux love-train continued this week as the Windows giant sought to join the exclusive club that is the official linux-distros mailing list. From a report: The purpose of the linux-distros list is used by Linux distributions to privately report, coordinate, and discuss security issues yet to…

But just imagine Stuxnet: Consumer Edition Comment Iran claims that recent surges in electricity demand, leading to blackouts and brownouts, were caused by too many cryptocurrency miners’ power-hungry machines being hooked up to the national grid – though all may not be as it seems.… …read more Source:: Register

Andrew Yang, who says he’s running “the nerdiest campaign in presidential history,” made an almost immediate splash when he arrived without a tie on the second night of the first presidential Democratic debate. The former head of Venture for America, a nonprofit that sends entrepreneurs into cities to help revitalize them, Yang brought his passion…

The news comes after the company was looking to move iPhone production away from the country. …read more Source:: CNet

If you don’t have a full-color 3D printer, you might want to pick up some model paint. …read more Source:: CNet

For whatever you have built, there is someone who has done it longer, and knows more about it. That is the basic premise of expertise, and for this year’s Hackaday Prize we’re rolling out with a series of mentor sessions. These are master classes that match up experts in product development with the people behind…

Josh Dzieza, reporting for The Verge: It’s been exactly one year since President Trump pushed a golden shovel into a field in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, breaking ground on a planned Foxconn factory he called “the eighth wonder of the world.” “This is one of the great deals, ever,” he said at the ceremony. The proposed…