Cybercrimes are costing states millions of dollars. …read more Source:: CNet

Apparently the UK’s CMA has never heard of Amazon Google Cloud has completed its $2.6bn acquisition of data analytics and machine learning outfit Looker after getting the thumbs-up from the UK’s competition authorities.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Mobile apps are used in nearly 80% of attacks targeting mobile devices, followed by network and operating system attacks. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Europe’s data protection laws are some of the strictest in the world, and have long been a thorn in the side of the data-guzzling Silicon Valley tech giants since they colonized vast swathes of the internet. Two decades later, one Democratic senator wants to bring many of those concepts to the United States. From a…

A new Data Protection Agency would overhaul federal regulation efforts around data privacy – but experts are skeptical that the U.S. government can get it right. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Repairs require complete disassembly The Motorola Razr is back and while the 2000s stalwart had a reputation for toughness, you’ll probably want to be careful with the refreshed version. A recent teardown from the T3-wielding terrors at iFixit has proven it to be nigh-on impossible to repair.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

After clearing UK anti-trust review, Google and Looker have formally sealed the deal. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Academics from MIT’s computer science laboratory have published a security audit today of Voatz, a mobile app used for online voting during the 2018 US midterm elections and scheduled to be used again in the upcoming 2020 presidential election. From a report: MIT academics claim they identified bugs that could allow hackers to “alter, stop,…

Question: Can a flywheel store enough energy to power an airplane? Answer: Yes it can, for certain values of “flywheel” and “airplane.” About the only person we can think of who would even attempt to build a flywheel-powered airplane is [Tom Stanton]. He’s a great one for off-the-wall ideas that often pay off, like his…

Scott Santens, writing for Vocal: Back in June of 2019, I tweeted about the latest egregious example of MSNBC excluding Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang from their ongoing coverage of the 2020 Presidential candidates. There had been previous examples, but that was the worst up to that point because they had photos of all 20…