Twitter will also stop accepting ads paid for by state-run news agencies. …read more Source:: ZDNet

A detailed look at underground forums shows that cybercriminals aren’t sure where to look on the heels of the GandCrab ransomware group shutting its doors – and low-level actors are taking advantage of that by developing their own strains. …read more Source:: Threatpost

With picks from Acer, Apple, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Microsoft, we’ve got an affordable laptop for every student. …read more Source:: CNet

The mid-engine performance bargain is rumored to have a price hike in its future. …read more Source:: CNet

Scott Hanselman: Microsoft Encarta came out in 1993 and was one of the first CD-ROMs I had. It stopped shipping in 2009 on DVD. I recently found a disk and was impressed that it installed just perfectly on my latest Window 10 machine and runs nicely. Encarta existed in an interesting place between the rise…

Jack Cheng has opted to retire from the company following a bumpy past year. …read more Source:: CNet

Eight vulnerabilities would allow a range of attacker activities, including taking the Nest camera offline, sniffing out network information and device hijacking. …read more Source:: Threatpost

YouTuber and electronics engineer [Carl Bugeja] has a knack for finding creative uses for flexible PCBs. For the past year, he has been experimenting with PCB motors, using them on drones, robot fish, and most recently swarm robots. This is his final video in the vibro-bot series, and he’s got his best results to date….

Fast radio bursts are getting more attention from scientists, who can now detect more of them. …read more Source:: CNet

A group of app developers have penned a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, arguing that certain privacy-focused changes to Apple’s iOS 13 operating system will hurt their business. From a report: In a report by The Information, the developers were said to have accused Apple of anti-competitive behavior when it comes to how apps…