15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Are Warning Humankind We Are Screwed
Credit to Author: Stephen Leahy| Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0000
Human impacts on the environment are putting our future at risk, they say.
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The Greatest Computer Network You’ve Never Heard Of
Credit to Author: Ernie Smith| Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:00:00 +0000
How the PLATO system, a pre-internet online platform that first came to life at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the 1960s, quietly fostered some of the first digital natives.
Read MoreIs Everyone Going to Pretend ‘Yoshi’s Island’ Is Not a Super Mario Game?
Credit to Author: Zack Kotzer| Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 13:00:00 +0000
If your ‘Best Super Mario’ list doesn’t include Yoshi’s Island it is invalid.
Read MoreRansomware marketplaces and the future of malware | Salted Hash Ep 6
Would you give up a customer's data or credentials if that was the demand in a ransomware attack? That's just one of the nightmare scenarios that Steve Ragan and Rick McElroy talk about on this week's episode.
Do We All See the Woman Holding an iPhone in This 1860 Painting?
Credit to Author: Brian Anderson| Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +0000
A closer look at “The Expected One,” a panting by 19th century Austrian artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.
Read MoreDuplicitous Teddy Bear Shocks Amazon Shoppers With Grotesquely Long Legs
Credit to Author: Samantha Cole| Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 20:11:33 +0000
Customers demanded answers after receiving an unexpectedly leggy boy.
Read MoreIf Facebook Actually Wants to Be Transparent, It Should Talk to Journalists
Credit to Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai| Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 20:11:25 +0000
A Facebook executive has been complaining about negative press coverage, yet the company declines to engage with journalists.
Read MoreHack of Attack-for-Hire Service vDOS Snares New Mexico Man
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 17:00:12 +0000
A New Mexico man is facing federal hacking charges for allegedly using the now defunct attack-for-hire service vDOS to launch damaging digital assaults aimed at knocking his former employer’s Web site offline. Prosecutors were able to bring the case in part because vDOS got massively hacked last year, and its customer database of payments and targets leaked to this author and to the FBI.
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