Day: July 24, 2020

UK’s NCSC reveals Premier League footie clubs to be ripe pickings for cybercrooks: One almost lost £1m to BEC attack

Switch on, urges GCHQ-backed public security agency Common cybersecurity threats also apply to Premier League football clubs, according to the National Cyber Security Centre, which said that one club nearly sent £1m to fraudsters after a business email compromise (BEC) attack.… …read more Source:: Register


Best electric bikes to ride in 2020 – CNET

These e-bikes will help you get around while public transit is limited. And we’ve got picks for almost any budget. …read more Source:: CNet


Best iPad drawing apps for drawing, doodling and everything in between – CNET

From Procreate’s blank canvas to creative coloring books, these apps will unleash your inner artist. …read more Source:: CNet


A Complete Raspberry Pi Power Monitoring System

As the world has become more environmentally conscious, we’ve seen an uptick in projects that monitor or control home energy use. At a minimum one of these setups involves a microcontroller and some kind of clamp-on current sensor, but if you’re looking for resources to take things a bit farther, this Raspberry Pi energy monitoring…


Raytheon techie who took home radar secrets gets 18 months in the clink in surprise time fraud probe twist

Be careful about bunking off when you’re billing your hours to a government A now-former Raytheon systems engineer will spend the next year and a half behind bars for taking home secret US government blueprints and paperwork, against security procedures, all because he seemingly liked taking Fridays off.… …read more Source:: Register


Microsoft is trying to make your browser notifications slightly less annoying

And soon Microsoft will make persistent web notifications in Windows Action Center disappear after 25 seconds. …read more Source:: ZDNet


China’s Tianwen-1 Mars Rover Rockets Away From Earth

AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: China has launched its first rover mission to Mars. The six-wheeled robot, encapsulated in a protective probe, was lifted off Earth by a Long March 5 rocket from the Wenchang spaceport on Hainan Island at 12:40 local time (04:40 GMT). It should arrive in orbit around the Red…


Windows 10 2004: Now we’re automatically upgrading more PCs on older versions, says Microsoft

More Windows 10 users can expect to be automatically offered the Windows 10 May 2020 Update. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Less than six months after original release, Samsung reboots its Galaxy Z Flip pholdable for the 5G age

Great, more $1,500 kit to trash Pholdables remain a vanishingly small niche of the smartphone market, due to their high costs and endemic durability concerns. Nobody, it seems, told Samsung, which just announced an upgraded 5G version of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Finally, a Bugatti that only costs $68,000, but there’s a catch – Roadshow

The catch is that it’s a three-quarter-scale replica of a Type 35 race car, and it only does 43 mph. …read more Source:: CNet