American Speed Limits Are Based on 1950s Science
Credit to Author: Ankita Rao| Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:04:30 +0000
Around 40,000 people still die on American roads every year, but technology and data could change that.
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I Talked to the Guys Who Bought ‘Utopia’
Credit to Author: Emanuel Maiberg| Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000
The text-only strategy game once had 100,000 players. Its new owners want to bring it back to its former glory.
Read MoreCarly Chaikin on ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3: None of Us Know Where This Is All Going
Credit to Author: Miles Surrey| Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:37:11 +0000
The actress says fans can expect a faster-paced season three.
Read MoreClimate Change Is Making It Harder to Grow Rice
Credit to Author: Sawsan Morrar| Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0000
Malaysian farmers are watching changing weather patterns threaten their staple crops, and switching to other crops might be the only answer.
Read MoreSilicon Valley’s Radical Machine Cult
Credit to Author: Wolfram Klinger| Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:00:00 +0000
From afterlife to machine transcendence, Digitalism offers a new promise of paradise.
Read MoreEarly reports of myriad Microsoft Patch Tuesday problems
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 04:28:00 -0700
This month’s massive bundle of Patch Tuesday patches almost certainly contains more than a few surprises, and they’re only starting to surface. Here’s a rundown of what I’ve seen in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
There are lots of reports of delayed, failed and rolled back installations of KB 4041676, the Win10 Creators Update (version 1703) monthly cumulative update, which brings 1703 up to build 15063.674. A quick glance at the KB article confirms that there are dozens and dozens of fixes in this cumulative update — a remarkable state of affairs, considering the Fall Creators Update, version 1709, is due on Oct. 17.
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Equifax Hackers Stole Info on 693,665 UK Residents
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 22:00:01 +0000
Equifax Inc. said today an investigation into information stolen in the epic data breach the company disclosed on Sept. 7 revealed that intruders took a file containing 15.2 million UK records. The company says it is now working to inform nearly 700,000 U.K. consumers whose data was stolen in the attack.
Read MoreEquifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 18:56:50 +0000
In May, KrebsOnSecurity broke a story about lax security at a payroll division of big-three credit bureau Equifax that let identity thieves access personal and financial data on an unknown number of Americans. Incredibly, this same division makes it simple to access detailed salary and employment history on a large portion of Americans using little more than someone’s Social Security number and date of birth — both data elements that were stolen in the recent breach at Equifax.
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