Too right. I need to contact my MP.

I'm fairly certain you're remembering a Peter Watts novel; IIRC that's from Starfish (or possibly the sequel Maelstrom?)

There was a story here last week about some researchers who'd managed to 3D print a turtle that would be reliably misidentified as a rifle, despite not actually looking anything like one. These remind me that AI don't really work the way Hollywood (or even sci-fi) would typically want them to.

Can anyone explain why Amazon even allows users to set up databases with no passwords? It seems to me that this type of leak happens monthly, if not more frequently. Surely the bad press Amazon gets by association is enough by itself for them to make passwords mandatory? I truly do not understand how this keeps happening again and again and again.

When I replaced the battery in my Nexus 4 a few years back, I was convinced that _everything_ available was a fake (despite them all touting their "ORIGINAL", "GENUINE", "OEM", etc. status).

I'd have paid 40$ or so for something from a clearly official source, but ended up having to settle for a 10$ China-shipped fake.

Where can I buy a Chinese yoyo factory? I'm gonna be rich!

Yeah! If they don't go from standard taxis immediately to un-manned cars and firing their drivers in a weekend, then how can we possibly take them seriously?

I couldn't find any information on _when_ this was likely to have happened. I use 1/2 that list at home and the office, but haven't updated any in a few weeks at least, so I'd like to check that out.

I'd much rather they fixed their stupid comment system, since it infects other websites with it's presence. As a single father working on my laptop, they use up the time I could be spending making 500$ a week from home! [click here]

Start with _this_ math - take your average page views per day, multiply it by $.001 to find how much websites are making per day by making your web browsing experience miserable. It's a piddly number _even_ for a lowly intern making minimum wage.

Then absolutely yes think about other ways a site can generate that kind of revenue, 'cause they need to use them. Patreon comes to mind for a start.

"The exploit was created by Todor Donev, member of a Bulgarian security research outfit called Ethical Hacker[...]"
"Donev did not report the vulnerability to D-Link and as far as he knows it is currently a zero-day[...]"

I don't think that word means what you think it means. :-/

Wiki here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
I'm sure someone can explain this... to me it sounds like an attempt to invent a new generic credit card that uses an existing popular financial transaction network.

When I was in high school my Biology 20 teacher found an old book in the library with various colour blindness test diagrams in it, and thought it would be fun to pass it around during class everyone could check it out.
On the the guys at the back of the class (you know the ones) cheated on it.

It might not be in the particular article linked above, but this guy was using police databases to research a bunch of women. I'm certainly not happy leaving people like that to their own devices.

News: Not just webservers use OpenSSL!

No kidding. My Synology NAS had a same-day update to patch this - my custom router firmware needed updating too. If there's a story for every device someone forgot might contain OpenSSL code, it's going to be a busy month.