Malware laced OpenDocument files target Microsoft Office, OpenOffice and LibreOffice users. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Apple’s Deep Fusion photography system has arrived in the latest developer betas of iOS 13, hopefully hinting that it will ship for the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro soon. From a report: To refresh your memory, Deep Fusion is a new image processing pipeline for medium-light images, which Apple senior VP Phil Schiller called “computational…

Your new iPhone has a new camera mode that is basically like having a mad scientist in your phone. …read more Source:: CNet

Some hacks are born of genius or necessity, and others from our sheer ham-fisted incompetence. This is not a story about the first kind. But it did give me an excuse to show how easy it is to design WiFi-connected devices that work the way you want them to, rather than the way the manufacturer…

Alongside the Skydio 2, the company announced two dedicated controllers for the autonomous drone. …read more Source:: ZDNet

H_Fisher writes: Movie-watchers (in the U.S. at least) already have to sit through 20+ minutes of commercials and other advertainment before showtime. Now, two major theater chains are mixing commercials in with movie trailers in a bid to generate more cash. According to the report, “regular commercials will run for five minutes after the lights…

In a strategy shift, Microsoft will make Extended Security Updates for Windows 7 available to smaller business customers, too, starting on December 1. …read more Source:: ZDNet

We told you! We told you to patch! Did you listen? Security plaftorm vendor Comodo has ‘fessed up to a digital break-in affecting 245,000 users – after it ignored line one in the first chapter of the “How to do Basic Security” book about timely patching of software.… …read more Source:: Register

Vitis toolkit for the rest of us, coming soon, allegedly If you hate writing Verilog, VHDL, and other hardware design languages, used to craft computer chips and configure FPGAs, you’re far from the only one.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

A former Yahoo software engineer pleaded guilty yesterday to hacking into the personal accounts of over 6,000 Yahoo users, in search of sexual images and videos. From a report: Reyes Daniel Ruiz, 34, of Tracy, California, worked for more than ten years for Yahoo!, where he served as a reliability engineer for the company’s Yahoo!…