Day: July 16, 2020

T-Mobile will stop taking new Sprint customers on Aug. 2, new T-Mobile deals coming soon – CNET

The unification of T-Mobile and Sprint is happening in August. …read more Source:: CNet


Touch Screen Reflow Oven Pulls Out all the Stops

We’ve seen plenty of simple reflow ovens, and there’s an excellent chance that some of the people reading these words have even thrown their own together. A minimal example isn’t much more than a old toaster oven, a Solid State Relay (SSR), a thermocouple, and a microcontroller to get them all talking. But if you’re…


EU Court Ruling Means New Global Protections for EU Customer Data

The ruling in a case involving Facebook means that international companies must provide EU-level privacy controls for EU-generated data no matter where it’s stored or transferred. …read more Source:: DarkReading


FYI Russia is totally hacking the West’s labs in search of COVID-19 vaccine files, say UK, US, Canada cyber-spies

‘Completely unacceptable’ spouts British Foreign Secretary Russian hackers at the state’s FSB spy agency have been caught breaking into Western institutions working on potential vaccines for the COVID-19 coronavirus in hope of stealing said research. That’s according to the British National Cyber Security Centre and America’s NSA today.… …read more Source:: Register


Scientists unlock deep, dark secrets of ultra-black fish – CNET

They’re the goths of the deep, like Vantablack with fins. …read more Source:: CNet


Google combines shopping and entertainment in experimental Shoploop app – CNET

Shoploop lets you scroll through 90-second video clips to find new beauty products. …read more Source:: CNet


Superman Henry Cavill builds a gaming PC – CNET

Or for most recent fans: Toss a chip to your Witcher. He’s found his destiny. …read more Source:: CNet


Twitter Attack Raises Concerns Over its Internal Controls

Attackers temporarily gained control of the accounts of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and others, to tweet a bitcoin scam. …read more Source:: DarkReading


A Lowly 8-Bit Micro Busts Copy Protection From The 16-Bit Era

When floppy disks were the data storage medium of choice, software companies and in particular game developers came up with ever more inventive ways to make them difficult to copy. Tinkering at the edges of the disc format standards didn’t come cheap though, and for example the Dungeon Master game for the Atari ST was…


Google gives Gmail’s collab chops a good buffing to make it the ‘home for work’ while we’re working from home

Chat and Meet rolled into the inbox along with other bells and whistles Google is to shovel yet more bells and whistles into its Gmail client in an effort to demonstrate its collaborative chops in an increasingly crowded marketplace.… …read more Source:: TheRegister