Day: October 17, 2019

See a Boston-sized iceberg break off Antarctica and go for a spin – CNET

Another iceberg nopes out of Antarctica. …read more Source:: CNet


Trump Campaign Website Left Open to Email Server Hijack

A misconfigured website development tool exposed hundreds of email servers to takeover, including President Donald Trump’s official campaign website. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Nest Wifi vs Eero: Which mesh network do you want? – CNET

Google-owned Nest and Amazon-owned Eero each have new mesh routers up for sale. Which one’s the better bet to blanket your home in Wi-Fi? …read more Source:: CNet


Tech startup Sentons wants to make future phones button-free and all-touch – CNET

Ultrasonic, pressure-sensitive touch technology is ready to go, and could make for button-free gadgets and wearables where every part is a touch surface. …read more Source:: CNet


Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free

This year, nearly 40% of U.S. taxpayers filed online and some 40 million of them did so with TurboTax, far more than with any other product. But the success of TurboTax rests on a shaky foundation, one that could collapse overnight if the U.S. government did what most wealthy countries did long ago and made…


Remember the Democratic National Committee email leak? Same hackers now targeting EU countries, say malware boffins

Researchers say they’ve cracked a Washington embassy and more The hacker crew behind the US Democratic National Committee breach are still at it and have infiltrated an EU country’s embassy in Washington DC, according to infosec biz Eset.… …read more Source:: Register


Red Hat OpenShift 4.2: Kubernetes for the hybrid-cloud developer

Red Hat, via OpenShift, wants to help developers build the new model hybrid cloud. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Berkeley City Council Unanimously Votes To Ban Face Recognition

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Berkeley has become the third city in California and the fourth city in the United States to ban the use of face recognition technology by the government. After an outpouring of support from the community, the Berkeley City Council voted unanimously to adopt the…


Fancy yourself as a bit of a Ramblin’ Man or Woman? Maybe brush up on your cartography

Ordnance Survey map app update left some users lost, but they’re really sorry, m’kay? All is not well in the corridors of respected Blighty institution the Ordnance Survey as a borked app update left users, in a very real sense, flailing in the wilderness.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


OnePlus 7T review: The best smartphone value of 2019

While most flagship phones push the $1,000 price point, OnePlus recently launched a new version of its OnePlus 7 at a $599 price. It has some of the highest specifications available today and performs at a level far above its price. …read more Source:: ZDNet