Day: July 27, 2019

MalwareTech Gets No Prison Time, One Year Supervised Release

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


In 80 Days, Google Will Require Chrome Extensions To Request ‘The Least Amount of Data’

“Google is giving Chrome extension makers until October 15 to minimize the amount of data they collect during browser sessions or face expulsion from the Chrome Web Store,” reports PC Magazine: The change addresses how the extensions generally need to request certain permissions from your browser in order to function. However, some of these permissions…


Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Tarantino love letter to movies has a bloody twist – CNET

Commentary: I like this homage to Hollywood’s golden age starring Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie. But I could do without all the blood spattering. …read more Source:: CNet


Does This Timber Have The Right Timbre?

A hi-fi amplifier used to be a right of passage for the home electronic constructor, back in the days when consumer electronics was still dominated by analogue entertainment. It’s unusual then to see [carbono.silĂ­cio]’s stereo amplifier project, constructed in an open-wire circuit sculpture form on a log. You didn’t read that incorrectly, it’s built not…


Penetration Testing Toolkit Includes Exploit For ‘Incredibly Dangerous’ Bluekeep Vulnerability

An anonymous reader quotes Vice: In May, Microsoft released a patch for a bug in several versions of Windows that is so bad that the company felt it even had to release a fix for Windows XP, an operating system that (has been unsupported) for five years. That vulnerability is known as BlueKeep, and it…


Wyze Bulb review: An $8 smart home accessory that shines bright

Looking for a smart light bulb that doesn’t cost a lot? We found it. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Will Machine Learning Build Up Dangerous ‘Intellectual Debt’?

Long-time Slashdot reader JonZittrain is an international law professor at Harvard Law School, and an EFF board member. Wednesday he contacted us to share his new article in the New Yorker: I’ve been thinking about what happens when AI gives us seemingly correct answers that we wouldn’t have thought of ourselves, without any theory to…


Samsung shows off what its fixed Galaxy Fold will look like – CNET

And other answers to our burning questions. …read more Source:: CNet


John McAfee Released From Jail in the Dominican Republic

An anonymous reader quotes the New York Post: John McAfee of antivirus software fame has arrived in London from the Dominican Republic, where he had been detained for several days with his wife and several others for entering the Caribbean nation with a cache of weapons on his yacht, his lawyer said Friday. Authorities “asked…


Add An Ant To Your Desk For Some Compact PCB Manufacturing

Usually when one thinks of using a CNC machine for producing PCBs, one thinks of those big, bulky CNC machines that pretty much fill an entire desk. But what if a CNC machine could be small enough to fit on a desk without getting in the way, yet still be useful enough to make single-…