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Female ex-Googlers sue, claiming sex discrimination
Three former Googlers say women were funneled into less lucrative “job ladders.”
Google stops challenging most US warrants for data on overseas servers
Microsoft keeps up the challenges while Supreme Court remains silent.
The near-final macOS High Sierra golden master has been seeded to devs
The seed is expected to closely resemble the public launch due September 25.
Equifax hackers stole data for 200k credit cards from transaction history
Credit bureau held card data for transactions dating back to November 2016.
Women less interested in sex, except when they ditch “mastering their domain”
Sex study suggests women’s lack of interest in sex isn’t a sign of their dysfunction.
Futurama returns as a one-time-only radio drama with full voice cast
Nerdist co-production casts Chris Hardwick as the double-length episode’s villain.
Teen sends dick pic to 22-year-old woman, now he’s a child pornographer
Washington Supreme Court: Child porn laws apply even if perp, victim are the same.
Scammers keep trying to sell fake Equifax facts
Site offers “proof” of access to Equifax data, but it all appears to be fake.
Daimler has new electric trucks and a buyer for them: The United Parcel Service
“The game has started” a Daimler official told Reuters.
New evidence of Viking warrior women might not be what it seems
Experts cast doubt on a recent DNA discovery in a mysterious Swedish grave.
Microsoft unveils Project Honolulu, a new GUI for server administration
Scripting and the command line are important—but not the only way to do things.
Azure Confidential Computing will keep data secret, even from Microsoft
Virtual machines and hardware features will provide secrecy.
Appeals court rejects Uber’s attempt to dodge trial: No arbitration
And, Levandowski can’t stop Waymo lawyers from reading a report on his startup.
Quantum computers reach deeper, find ground state of simple hydrides
Six qubits is enough to determine the ground state of three simple molecules.
FTC launches Equifax breach probe, warns consumers about credit scammers
Posing as Equifax employees, crooks are calling to verify your account information.
Developers say a Star Citizen guild did not get $45,000 refund [Updated]
Cloud Imperium says refund was actually for just $330
Less than 24 hours until Cassini probe crashes into Saturn
Running out of fuel, NASA will crash its probe to prevent contamination.
ISPs claim a privacy law would weaken online security and increase pop-ups
California to vote on privacy law opposed by AT&T, Comcast, Charter, and Verizon.
Combined qubit may bring scaleable quantum computing to silicon
Phosphorous-in-silicon qubits are useless until reinforced by a nuclear qubit.
SpaceX proves it’s not afraid to fail by releasing a landing blooper reel
"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating."
Blizzard: Toxic Overwatch players are hurting the game’s development
This is why we can't have nice things, apparently.
Apple says Face ID didn’t actually fail during its iPhone X event
The iPhone maker says its new face unlocking tech worked as intended.
Hyperloop One announces 10 routes it will study, partners with Colorado DOT
This Denver-based editor cautiously dreams of competition for I-25.
Hilarious, spectacular EVE betrayal destroys player group, costs trillions
Infighting and Cold War-style espionage led to largest theft in game’s history.
Coming October 4: The Google Pixel 2
The Pixel 2 will launch exactly one year after the Pixel 1.
Nintendo Switch lands Doom and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Plus, Nintendo's Arcade Archives retro classics, red JoyCon, and a Pokemon-themed 2DS.
Malicious apps with >1 million downloads slip past Google defenses twice
Malware scanners fail to detect 50 apps that charged for fake services.
Trump blocks Chinese purchase of US chipmaker over national security
Sale of Lattice Semiconductors is seen as a threat to national security.
Failure to patch two-month-old bug led to massive Equifax breach
Critical Apache Struts bug was fixed in March. In May, it bit ~143 million US consumers.
Remember the artist whose iPhone was searched at border? He’s suing the feds
"The border doctrine does not say that the Constitution doesn't exist at the border."
Martin Shkreli is headed to jail
Judge called Shkreli’s call to pluck Hillary Clinton’s hair “solicitation of assault.”
I sat in the seat suit of Ford’s fake self-driving car
Virginia Tech researchers made a fake self-driving car to test public reactions.
For some reason, Ron Paul has taken to Fox News to skewer SpaceX
“Allowing SpaceX to obtain a monopoly over launch services harms taxpayers.”
Kaspersky software banned from US government agencies
Kaspersky: We have “never helped, nor will help, any government with cyberespionage.”
What you should know about privacy and Apple’s FaceID on iOS 11
Your rights may differ if phone is locked via biometrics compared to a passcode.
iPhone 8 and 8 Plus hands-on: The Qi flows through this one
The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus add wireless charging and a faster processor.
Dealmaster: Get up to $300 off Galaxy S8 or S8+, bonus Gear VR with trade-in
Plus iPhone 8 pre-orders, $20 BitDefender, drone deals, and more.
Apple announced a lot yesterday—here’s everything you need to know
Three iPhones, an LTE Watch, a 4K Apple TV, and more.
Comcast puts YouTube in its TV boxes to entice would-be cord-cutters
YouTube follows Netflix to a prime spot on Comcast's X1 set-top boxes.
Hurricane Irma took 7 million cable and wireline subscribers offline
Comcast, AT&T, other ISPs try to get customers online as power outages persist.
Solar now costs 6¢ per kilowatt-hour, beating government goal by 3 years
Cost goals met, the DOE is moving on to address grid reliability in solar.
The new study suggesting sitting will kill you is kind of a raging dumpster fire
It’s funded by Big Soda and riddled with weaknesses—including not measuring sitting.
Electric cars all the rage at Frankfurt Auto Show, but we can’t drive them yet
Concepts and roadmaps are fine and well, but we need EVs now.
Nintendo fixes a major problem with Switch in-game chat service
Mobile app can now run in the background (like every other voice chat app).
Some iPad Pros cost $50 more today as Apple quietly ups prices
Reportedly due to the current high cost of NAND flash storage.
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update shaking up privacy settings some more
And Enterprise users will get even more control over analytics data.
Drug company hands patents off to Native American tribe to avoid challenge
If tribes can avoid patent challenges, will "patent trolls" flock to them next?
Can a tattoo on human flesh be copyrighted? We’ll soon find out
Is the human body a protectable medium of expression for purposes of copyright?
Trump’s self-driving car strategy: Don’t regulate self-driving cars
The new document provides non-binding guidance to industry and state regulators.
Coffee vs. climate change: The news is not good
Warming will push coffee uphill and could limit pollinators.
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