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Uninstall These Eight Browser Extensions That Stole Data from Millions

A massive data leak was recently discovered by cybersecurity researcher Sam Jidali, revealing private information for 45 major companies and millions of individuals. Dubbed “DataSpii” by Jidali and his team, the leak was perpetrated by innocent-looking Chrome and Firefox browser extensions that collected and… Read more… Uninstall These Eight Browser Extensions That Stole Data from

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Trump repeatedly asks NASA administrator why we can’t go straight to Mars

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images On Friday, President Trump commemorated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 with a photo opportunity in the Oval Office, where he spent a lot of time questioning his administration’s own policy for deep space human exploration. Surrounded by NASA officials, Moon walkers, and lawmakers, Trump repeatedly asked NASA’s administrator, Jim

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French drone maker Parrot continues to shift away from consumer sales, dominated by DJI, says it will only make business focused Anafi drone line (Sean O'Kane/The Verge)

Sean O’Kane / The Verge: French drone maker Parrot continues to shift away from consumer sales, dominated by DJI, says it will only make business focused Anafi drone line  —  The French dronemaker continues to shift away from consumer sales, which are dominated by DJI  —  France’s Parrot has left the toy drone market …

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Chrome and Firefox extensions with up to 4M installs leaked sensitive data, including names and passwords, to marketing intelligence service Nacho Analytics (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Chrome and Firefox extensions with up to 4M installs leaked sensitive data, including names and passwords, to marketing intelligence service Nacho Analytics  —  Have your tax returns, Nest videos, and medical info been made public?  —  When we use browsers to make medical appointments … Chrome and Firefox extensions with

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Hackaday Prize Mentor Session: Beau Ambur

Beau Ambur can often be found hosting hardware events and offering help all around the Bay Area. Now he’s turned it into a career and travels the west coast helping hackers and creators effectively leverage Kickstarter’s platform. Beau’s mentor session covers everything from, “is this project a good fit for venture capital?” to, “is open

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Hackaday Prize Mentor Session: Beau Ambur

{$inline_image} Beau Ambur can often be found hosting hardware events and offering help all around the Bay Area. Now he’s turned it into a career and travels the west coast helping hackers and creators effectively leverage Kickstarter’s platform. Beau’s mentor session covers everything from, “is this project a good fit for venture capital?” to, “is

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How to Survive a Long Airport Delay

Last week, hundreds of flights at New York’s LaGuardia Airport were delayed or canceled because of thunderstorms in the area; inbound flights landed nearly four hours past their scheduled arrival times. And while we’d like to think delays are a rare occurrence, United and other major airlines like Delta and American… Read more… How to

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Twitter's redesign, which rebuilt the desktop website as a progressive web app, solves none of its problems, but will help the famously slow company move faster (Will Oremus/OneZero)

Will Oremus / OneZero: Twitter’s redesign, which rebuilt the desktop website as a progressive web app, solves none of its problems, but will help the famously slow company move faster  —  It’s about making a notoriously slow-footed company faster on its feet — which could eventually pay off for its users Twitter's redesign, which rebuilt

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