The heat is expected to continue for several days in some parts of British Columbia, according to weather warnings from the government. From a report: Vancouverites were frying eggs on pans placed on their terraces. One man checked into an air-conditioned five-star hotel, after the five fans aimed at his bed at home and the…

Vendor claimed not to log user data – we’ll see Europol, the US Department of Justice, and Britain’s National Crime Agency have taken down a VPN service they claimed was mainly used by criminals – boasting that they hoovered up “personal information, logs and statistics” from the site.… …read more Source:: Register

iPhones are still making a name for themselves 14 years later. …read more Source:: CNet

The VPN service allegedly provided a means for cybercriminals to target their victims, Europol officials report. …read more Source:: DarkReading

The original source code for the world wide web has been sold as a non-fungible token, making $5.4m. From a report: NFTs are certificates of ownership for digital assets, which often do not have a physical representation. They do not necessarily include copyright control — and critics say they are get-rich-quick schemes that are bad…

Pin art is one of those things that simply cannot be left alone if it’s within arms reach, and inevitably end up with a hand or face imprint. [hugs] is also fascinated by them, so he designed the PinThing, a mechanized pin art display. The PinThing pin diameters are much larger than standard pin art,…

New take on GNOME designed for productivity System76 has released Pop!_OS 21.04, based on Ubuntu 21.04 but with a distinctive desktop called COSMIC.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box on a renaissance in enterprise software and IT and accelerated digital business transformation in the next normal. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An anonymous reader writes: Following in the footsteps of browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome is also in line to receive an HTTPS-Only Mode that will upgrade all unencrypted HTTP connections to encrypted HTTPS alternatives, where possible. Currently, the new Chrome HTTPS-Only Mode is still under development in Chrome Canary distributions. Work…

Internet Explorer 11 and the Adobe Reader plug-in? Is this bork bingo? Internet Explorer 11 may only have a year left, but Microsoft still found itself releasing a patch to resolve some PDF issues in the elderly browser.… …read more Source:: Register