As much as we love Star Trek, we have to admit there are some continuity problems. For example, in Spock’s Brain, the alien-of-the-week’s ion drive gave Scotty engineering envy. However, in The Menagerie, the computer identifies a Starfleet shuttlecraft as having ion propulsion. Either way, ion propulsion is real and NASA has toyed with it…

Bill Gates and Melinda Gates write in their annual letter, shared by reader cusco: To prevent the hardship of this last year from happening again, pandemic preparedness must be taken as seriously as we take the threat of war. The world needs to double down on investments in R & D and organizations like CEPI…

Qualys said the vuln gives any local user root access to systems running the most popular version of Sudo. …read more Source:: Threatpost

After you install the update, your iPhone’s camera will be able to recognize smaller QR codes, and you’ll be able to specify different types of Bluetooth audio devices. …read more Source:: CNet

Arthur Levitt Jr., a former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, writes at Bloomberg Opinion: They say history occurs first as tragedy, then as farce — I fear we’re about to see that in U.S. financial markets. Two decades ago, U.S. financial markets were riding all-time records. Day traders were using chat rooms…

It was a first mover for graph DBs, but cloud is full of rivals Graph database swashbuckler Neo4j has joined a throng of NoSQL vendors in selling its technology core as a fully managed cloud database.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

A major vulnerability impacting a large chunk of the Linux ecosystem has been patched today in Sudo, an app that allows admins to delegate limited root access to other users. From a report: The vulnerability, which received a CVE identifier of CVE-2021-3156, but is more commonly known as “Baron Samedit,” was discovered by security auditing…

The $250 Echo Show 10 can rotate its display to follow you around the room; preorders have begun. …read more Source:: CNet

Notable great picks would be Jim Whitehurst of IBM, or Simon Segars of ARM, but a less obvious pick such as Okta’s Alvina Antar could set the company in new directions. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Protect against misinformation and disinformation campaigns by learning how to identify the bot networks spreading falsehoods. …read more Source:: DarkReading