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Hackers actively exploit WordPress plugin flaw to send visitors to bad sites
If you're seeing more malicious redirects than usual, now you know why.
Augmented reality changes how people interact and communicate, study finds
Using AR can change where you walk, how well you do on tasks and connect socially.
Kojima’s Death Stranding gets November 8 release date, wackadoo trailer [Updated]
If the glowing "bridge baby" isn't enough for you, there's now a tentacle-boss tease.
US Department of Energy is now referring to fossil fuels as “freedom gas”
The Department of Energy is on its path to "energy dominance" with bizarre re-branding.
Dealmaster: A handful of Lenovo ThinkPad laptops are discounted today
Plus deals on Philips Hue lights, iPads, Amazon Fire TV devices, and more.
The 2019 Roomba gets an all-new design, companion mop-bot
Roomba gets a D-shaped design, and iRobot finally makes a modern mopping robot.
In praise of ultra-short games
Kids is a fine new example of titles that linger longer than their quick playtime.
Two white dwarfs collide, may end up as neutron star
Merger between two white dwarfs avoids exploding, quietly decays to neutron star.
Huawei argues congressional ban on its equipment is unconstitutional
A 2018 law banned Huawei—by name—from selling to the US government.
14,000-year-old footprints record an underground Stone Age family outing
This is the first time archaeologists have found tracks of people crawling.
This institute crash-tests cars to make us all safer
Each time IIHS adds a new crash test, OEMs have to redesign their cars to pass.
Two self-driving startups team up to build a different kind of lidar
I got to see Blackmore's lidar in action in a recent demo ride.
IEA: Nuke retirements could lead to 4 billion metric tons of extra CO2 emissions
New builds are unlikely to pick up the slack, but plant lifetime extensions could.
Lobbying cost of US cap-and-trade bill estimated at 1% its climate cost
Analysis of failed Waxman-Markey Bill compares lobbying and stock prices.
Trump, steamed over delays, pulls plug on electric carrier catapults
During USS Wasp visit, Trump declares EMALS catapult kaput, orders steam instead.
How Russia (yes, Russia) plans to land cosmonauts on the Moon by 2030
"Very difficult times are ahead for our space program."
Atomically thin material could cut need for transistors in half
It can do AND or OR logic in a single transistor, switch states using light.
Google kills its Twitch killer—the YouTube Gaming app shuts down this week
YouTube's standalone gaming interface didn't prove popular with users.
Remember the iPod? Apple just released the first new one in four years
Little has changed besides performance, but a specs bump was overdue.
Eternally Blue: Baltimore City leaders blame NSA for ransomware attack
Mayor and council president ask for federal disaster dollars to clean up IT toxic waste.
One week with the Valve Index: A VR game-changer with a few question marks
For better and for worse (mostly better), there's never been a VR system like this.
Quake II gets free real-time raytracing updates on June 6
First three levels will be available as shareware on Windows, Linux.
Dell redesigns XPS 13 2-in-1, adds OLED display panel to XPS 15
Dell also brought its newest gaming design to Alienware m15 and m17 laptops.
Netflix’s Rim of The World shows where sci-fi is headed
As Hollywood banks on franchise blockbusters, streaming adopts beloved old film genres.
Dealmaster: All the best Memorial Day sales on TVs, laptops, and more tech
Including deals on Lenovo ThinkPads, Samsung TVs, iPads, the PS4 Pro, and more.
Kelly’s Heroes: Lockheed’s five finest airplanes
Featuring Its top hits: the Blackbird, U-2, F-104, P-80, and P-38.
Deepfakes are getting better—but they’re still easy to spot
“This means bigger problems for ordinary people.”
Washington Governor signs bill to allow composting human bodies
Recompose is spearheading a greener green burial.
New Netflix original Rim of the World is pretty much perfect summer fare
Writer Zack Stentz on his modern homage to classic kid-centric films of the 1980s.
Australian rare-earth ore processor wants to build a plant in the US
Rare-earth minerals are mostly processed in China, but a new project could change that.
Before Netscape: The forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s
From the archives: Does anybody remember Erwise? Viola? Cello? Let's reminisce.
Test performance, gender, and temperature
New results raise serious questions about what past studies have been looking at.
30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web
From the archives: Before the World Wide Web did anything, HyperCard did everything.
Website for storing digital currencies hosted code with a sneaky backdoor
WalletGenerator.net and the mystery of the backdoored random number generator.
Here are the finalists for 2019’s “Board game of the year” award
Tabletop gaming's highest honor, the Spiel des Jahres, is back.
Apple releases iOS 12.3.1 and a supplemental update for macOS 10.14.5
It's all about small bug fixes in the lead-up to big announcements at WWDC.
Star Wars: KOTOR film rumors, Sonic film delayed to fix its VFX
Slew of nerd-film Friday news also includes a date for the live-action Akira remake.
Trump gives Barr authority to declassify anything in campaign “spying” probe
Orders agencies to hand over anything about "intelligence activities" during 2016 election.
47 Democrats cave on net neutrality after GOP calls bill “dead on arrival”
GOP blocking of net neutrality vote rewarded as 47 Democrats ask for compromise.
Back in time: See You Yesterday brings time travel to the streets of Flatbush
Review: Black Mirror meets Back to the Future in Stefon Bristol's first feature film.
Hunter-gathering seems to have been easier than farming
Why does farming catch on when it dings health and quality of life?
Google bots shut down Baltimore officials’ ransomware-workaround Gmail accounts
Google automatically suspended accounts after detecting they were from same network.
Rocket Report: SpaceX sues the federal government, Chinese launch failure
Also, there's a company in Alabama that seeks to build a Falcon Heavy lite.
SpaceX launches Starlink mission, deploys 60 satellites [Updated]
Guess who's back, back again. Sooty's back, tell a friend.
Fake cryptocurrency apps on Google Play try to profit on bitcoin price surge
Researchers uncover two purported wallets uploaded after bitcoin prices rise.
Stronger than aluminum, a heavily altered wood cools passively
Boiled in hydrogen peroxide and compressed, the wood can passively manage heat.
New Assange indictment adds 17 espionage charges
Obtaining, disclosing "National Defense Information" charges could trigger 1st Amendment battle.
NASA officially orders its first segment of a lunar space station
"This time when we go to the Moon, we're actually going to stay."
GOP, Dem Senators officially introduce loot box, “pay-to-win” legislation
Expansive prohibitions could heavily impact large swathes of the game industry.
Purdue infiltrated WHO, manipulated opioid policies to boost sales, report finds
Congressional report alleges Purdue corrupted WHO to boost international sales.
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