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Election Systems & Software says it "will no longer sell" paperless voting machines as the primary device for casting ballots, amid election security concerns (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Election Systems & Software says it “will no longer sell” paperless voting machines as the primary device for casting ballots, amid election security concerns  —  Voting machine maker ES&S has said it “will no longer sell” paperless voting machines as the primary device for casting ballots in a jurisdiction. Election Systems

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Aurora partners with Fiat Chrysler to develop and deploy self-driving commercial vehicles including Ram trucks and Fiat Professional models (Alan Ohnsman/Forbes)

Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: Aurora partners with Fiat Chrysler to develop and deploy self-driving commercial vehicles including Ram trucks and Fiat Professional models  —  Days after abandoning merger talks with France’s Renault, Fiat Chrysler is shifting its focus to a new partnership: teaming up with Silicon Valley tech startup Aurora … Aurora partners with Fiat

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GetSafe, a mobile-only insurance provider that targets millennials in Germany and has 60K customers, raises €15M Series A, as it plans to expand to the UK (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)

Steve O’Hear / TechCrunch: GetSafe, a mobile-only insurance provider that targets millennials in Germany and has 60K customers, raises €15M Series A, as it plans to expand to the UK  —  Getsafe, the German insurance startup targeting millennials, has raised $17 million (€15m) in a Series A funding. GetSafe, a mobile-only insurance provider that targets

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Devolver is selling ‘bootleg’ versions of games like Hotline Miami and Enter the Gungeon

Devolver Digital’s annual, bizarre E3 press conference brought with it some surprising, fun news this year: the company is selling “bootleg” versions of its games for one percent off. “Devolver Bootleg” is a collection of popular Devolver games that are re-purposed as bootleg versions. The snort-inducing gimmick gives players the chance to purchase “fake” versions

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Everything announced at E3 2019 including Xbox Project Scarlett, Halo, Star Wars, Cyberpunk 2077, Doom Eternal and more – CNET

E3’s press conference weekend kicked off with Microsoft’s Halo Infinite and Project Scarlett next-gen console, as well as EA’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Next up: Nintendo, Ubisoft, Bethesda and Square Enix. Everything announced at E3 2019 including Xbox Project Scarlett, Halo, Star Wars, Cyberpunk 2077, Doom Eternal and more – CNET Source: CNet

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ProPublica's Political Ad Collector browser extension, now owned by the Globe and Mail, is working once again after being blocked by Facebook earlier this year (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)

Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: ProPublica’s Political Ad Collector browser extension, now owned by the Globe and Mail, is working once again after being blocked by Facebook earlier this year  —  The Globe and Mail is the new home to the Facebook Political Ad Collector, a browser extension that ProPublica built and released in

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Bethesda announces Orion cloud gaming system, with beta later this year

Bethesda Softworks has announced a software platform that’s supposed to dramatically improve cloud gaming performance. The system, called Orion, could be added to a wide variety of games across different game streaming services. Bethesda promises that it will give players a higher-quality experience that’s accessible on slower internet speeds, and it’s opening a limited beta

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Hackaday Links: June 9, 2019

The Chicago Pile led to the Manhattan Project, which led to the atomic bomb. In Germany, there were similar efforts with less success, and now we have physical evidence from the first attempted nuclear reactor in Germany. In Physics Today, there’s a lovely historical retrospective of one of the ‘fuel cubes’ that went into one

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Report sheds light on the various ways hackers make money from stolen medical data, from forging a doctor's identity to selling fake prescriptions and labels (Charlie Osborne/ZDNet)

Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: Report sheds light on the various ways hackers make money from stolen medical data, from forging a doctor’s identity to selling fake prescriptions and labels  —  Stolen medical information can sell for up to six times as much as PII, and there are reasons for that. Report sheds light on the

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Q&A with Stadia chief Phil Harrison on Google's commitment to the service, possibility of subscribing to libraries of individual publishers, free multiplayer (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Q&A with Stadia chief Phil Harrison on Google’s commitment to the service, possibility of subscribing to libraries of individual publishers, free multiplayer  —  While Google does not have a show floor presence at the gaming conference, Stadia head Phil Harrison did sit down for his “only E3 interview” on Sunday. Q&A

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