Feeling creative? Submit your caption in the comments, and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card. …read more Source:: DarkReading

The issue came to light after a Reddit user claimed being able to see strangers on his Xiaomi Mijia smart camera. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The New Year’s Eve malware attack forced Travelex employees to resort to manual operations. …read more Source:: DarkReading

The recent proposal by Germany, backed by France, to fuse the infrastructures of Europe’s cloud providers could challenge every data center storing a European’s data. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Merry Christmas and happy New Year! After a week off, we have quite a few stories to cover, starting with an unexpected Christmas gift from Apple. Apple has run an invitation-only bug bounty program for years, but it only covered iOS, and the maximum payout topped out at $200K. The new program is open to…

Official reports reveal ‘as designed but not intended’ snafu British electricity providers are paying £10.5m after a 2019 outage revealed a train-bricking software design flaw.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Company tells employees to seek new employment after suspending all operations right before Christmas. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Mike Masnick, writing for TechDirt: We’ve written a bunch about why AI generated artwork should not (and need not) have any copyright at all. The law says that copyright only applies to human creators. But what about patents? There has been a big debate about this in the patent space over the last year, mainly…

Elon Musk and Co. beat the Street, delivering 15,000 more cars than in Q3. …read more Source:: CNet

A software engineer has designed a so-called USB “kill cable” that works as a dead man’s switch to shut down or wipe a Linux laptop when the device is stolen off your table or from your lap in public spaces like parks, malls, and internet cafes. From a report: The cable, named BusKill, was designed…