Seven mobile apps for Android sneakily charge fans of Minecraft and Roblox hundreds of dollars per month. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The agency’s chief says it’s in the final stages of reviewing changes to Boeing’s beleaguered aircraft. …read more Source:: CNet

Prepping was seen as a fringe hobby for survivalists and reality TV. Then came the pandemic. From a report: There’s a reason “preppers,” people who plan for the worst-case scenario, like to talk about the zombie apocalypse. The idea of an army of walking dead swarming the country pervades their thoughts because, says Roman Zrazhevskiy,…

Family members will be able to personalize alerts, check in with relatives and call for help with simple commands. …read more Source:: CNet

.NET 5, new Visual Studio, F# updates and more Cross platform open source .NET 5.0 has hit general availability and been joined by new versions of C#, F# and the first preview of Visual Studio 16.9.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The rise of cloud computing and AI have popularised face recognition technology globally, but at what cost? From a report: When Anna Kuznetsova saw an ad offering access to Moscow’s face recognition cameras, all she had to do was pay 16,000 roubles ($200) and send a photo of the person she wanted spying on. The…

Plus: Naming ‘n’ shaming doesn’t stop hostile countries having a pop the UK The former head of the National Cyber Security Centre has warned that some British government figures have a “profound lack of understanding” of cyberspace, online warfare and information security.… …read more Source:: Register

HP said the new system is meant to streamline technology for retail and hospitality businesses. …read more Source:: ZDNet

For the vast majority of us, computer memory is a somewhat abstract idea. Whether you’re declaring a variable in Python or setting a register in Verilog, the data goes — somewhere — and the rest really isn’t your problem. You may have deliberately chosen the exact address to write to, but its not like you…

You can transfer Pokemon into the cloud-based storage service. …read more Source:: CNet