Anyone that’s ever dabbled in smart home tech knows that part of the experience involves an eventual reset. Having trouble with your C by GE bulbs? No worries, just follow these simple instructions as spotted by Josh Jordan: Turn on for 8 seconds Turn off for 2 seconds Turn on for 8 seconds Turn off
Read MoreSome of us are guilty of picking up questionable hardware from garage sales, fleamarkets, and well-meaning relatives. There is a balance between turning down a good investment and hoarding, and if we figure out how to tell the difference you will be the first to know. [Clem Mayer] may start on the side of unwise
Read MoreYouTube has historically had a seemingly insurmountable problem with the toxicity in its videos’ comments sections. Now, in what seems like an effort to prevent viewers from being exposed to this filth, the streaming service is testing out a feature to hide comments by default on its Android app. As XDA Developers reported, the feature is
Read MoreWirecutter: People who buy and set up a used Nest Cam Indoor that was paired with a Wink hub may be allowing previous owners unfettered access to images from the camera — We’ve explained before that when you’re selling or giving away your old smart-home devices, it’s critical to do a factory reset … People
Read MoreSocial media reactions are out, and your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is already scoring big with this summer release. Spider-Man: Far From Home early reactions — 'Perfect Endgame epilogue' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTerry Spencer / Associated Press: A Florida city council votes to pay $600K ransom to hackers who, over three weeks ago, encrypted city records, disabled its email system, and more — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida city agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom to hackers who took over its computer system … A
Read MorePoppy Northcutt shares lessons from being first woman in NASA’s Mission Control Center. NASA engineer tells women in STEM: Don't be hidden figures – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreShiny! Sign this petition to honor the Firefly actor with his own landmark in Edmonton, Alberta. Fans start petition for Nathan Fillion to get a building named after him – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJim Salter / Ars Technica: Oracle publishes out-of-band update to patch a zero-day code-execution vulnerability in WebLogic Server that is being actively exploited, per researchers — Oracle’s WebLogic Java appserver hit with the third in a series of exploited RCEs. — Oracle on Tuesday published an out-of-band update patching … Oracle publishes out-of-band update to
Read MoreIf you like nitpicking around C code and generated assembly language — and we’ll admit that we do — you shouldn’t miss [Scaramanga’s] analysis of what’s known as Kernighan’s trick. If you haven’t heard of the trick, it’s a pretty efficient way of counting bits. Like the Wheatstone bridge and a lot of other things,
Read MoreSarah Emerson / VICE: Some Twitter users receiving notifications whenever someone unfollows them, falsely saying the user “followed them back”; Twitter says it’s working on a bug fix — Twitter is telling people when someone has unfollowed them. — For several days, untold numbers of Twitter users … Some Twitter users receiving notifications whenever someone
Read MorePoppy Northcutt shares lessons from being first woman in NASA’s Mission Control Center. Apollo engineer tells women in STEM: Don't be hidden figures – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Main Event tells the story of a kid wrestler who finds a magical mask to take on WWE wrestlers. WWE teams up with Netflix for a new movie – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Valtix, which develops a suite of enterprise cloud security products, raises $14M Series A from Trinity Ventures and others — There’s no two ways about it: The state of cloud services security is alarming. About 24% of organizations have hosts missing high-severity patches in the public cloud … Valtix, which develops
Read MoreThe United Kingdom will likely delay its controversial age-verification system for online pornography ‘indefinitely,’ according to a report from Sky News. Citing multiple sources, Sky News says Jeremy Wright, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport secretary overseeing the UK’s regulation of the internet, will announce the delay tomorrow in British Parliament. The ban
Read MoreIndia came up with one of the best and simplest forms of EV purchasing incentives we’ve yet heard of. India proposes exempting EVs from registration fees, report says – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreDell Cameron / Gizmodo: Sources: Ajit Pai’s office has withheld documents from Democratic FCC commissioners on the FCC’s probe into the unauthorized sale of US cellphone location data — Democratic commissioners at the FCC are still in the dark when it comes the agency’s ongoing investigation into the unauthorized sale … Sources: Ajit Pai's office
Read MoreJames Fallows / The Atlantic: Fresno-based Bitwise Industries, which offers training for devs, says it has raised a $27M Series A, one of the largest ever by a Latinx female-led company — Four years ago, my wife, Deb, and I wrote about an ambitious and unusual tech startup called Bitwise Industries … Fresno-based Bitwise Industries,
Read MoreParker and his pal Ned Leeds need a leg up for their science fair project and Audi has jus the answer. Spider-Man gets a little science fair help from Audi in a new short – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreiPhones could be produced elsewhere if the US-China trade war escalates. Apple reportedly considers moving 30% of all iPhone production out of China – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSky News: Sources: the UK government will announce on Thursday that an upcoming age verification requirement for porn websites will be indefinitely delayed — There were fears of porn users’ identities and browsing habits being tracked, creating possible blackmail and online surveillance. — Created with Sketch. Sources: the UK government will announce on Thursday that
Read MoreXbox Live, Hulu and Reddit are now all back up and running after outages. Hulu, Xbox Live and Reddit go down Wednesday afternoon – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIn what is perhaps an appropriate maneuver for its subject matter, spy game Alpha Protocol has vanished from Steam with no fanfare to speak of. Unfortunately, the reason for its disappearance is not as exciting as this stealthy exit would imply — and there’s a slight chance we may see it again. First, let’s get
Read MoreThe company claims that Lite is capable of Level 4 autonomy as defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers. Baidu unveils its camera-based Apollo Lite self-driving suite – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreCatalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Researchers find that an ad agency left a database open with 150K+ personal records, including names and email and home addresses, from user-filled forms — Florida ad agency leaks the keys to its entire kingdom, including invoices, campaign metrics, and all collected data. Researchers find that an ad agency left a
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