Russian hackers were able to snatch all of the Democratic National Committee’s opposition research on Donald Trump, according to US officials who spoke to the Washington Post . The hackers were able to read emails and instant messages as a result of the breach. Read more…
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Russian Hackers Reportedly Stole Donald Trump Opposition Research From The DNC
A 2, 000-year-old orb of butter weighing 22-pounds was recently discovered in Co Meath, Ireland. Ancient butter experts believe that it was once offering to the gods. It’s also “theoretically… still edible” according to Andy Halpin, one of the Irish National Museums’ assistant keepers. Not a chance, Andy! Read more…
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Some Guy Found a Huge Chunk of 2,000-Year-Old Butter in a Bog and It’s Still Edible
The busiest shipping port in the US will soon be home to even more activity, thanks to plans to open a state-of-the-art ocean research facility by 2023. Read more…
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Abandoned LA Pier To Be Converted Into Ocean Research Center
Reader Orome1 writes: The Mozilla Foundation has set up the Secure Open Source (SOS) Fund, whose aim is to help open source software projects get rid their code of vulnerabilities. Projects that want Mozilla’s help must be open source/free software and must be actively maintained, but they have a much better probability to being chosen if their software is commonly used and is vital to the continued functioning of the Internet or the Web. Three open source projects — PCRE, libjpeg-turbo, and phpMyAdmin — have already gone through the process, and the result was removal of 43 vulnerabilities (including one critical). Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Mozilla Will Fund Code Audits For Open Source Software
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Ars is excited to be hosting this online debut of Sunspring, a short science fiction film that’s not entirely what it seems. It’s about three people living in a weird future, possibly on a space station, probably in a love triangle. You know it’s the future because H (played with neurotic gravity by Silicon Valley’s Thomas Middleditch) is wearing a shiny gold jacket, H2 (Elisabeth Gray) is playing with computers, and C (Humphrey Ker) announces that he has to “go to the skull” before sticking his face into a bunch of green lights. It sounds like your typical sci-fi B-movie, complete with an incoherent plot. Except Sunspring isn’t the product of Hollywood hacks — it was written entirely by an AI. To be specific, it was authored by a recurrent neural network called long short-term memory, or LSTM for short. At least, that’s what we’d call it. The AI named itself Benjamin. The report goes on to mention that the movie was made by Oscar Sharp for the annual film festival Sci-Fi London. You can watch the short film (~10 min) on The Scene here. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Movie Written By Algorithm Turns Out To Be Hilarious and Intense
Earlier this year, three individuals stole a total of 67 iPhones from an Upper West Side Apple store. Last week, 19 more iPhones were snatched from a SoHo store . How could these criminals possibly infiltrate the impenetrable security of a retail store run by certifiable geniuses? By dressing like Apple store employees, of course. Read more…
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A Band of Thieves Dressed Like Apple Workers Keeps Stealing iPhones From NYC Stores
KeePass isn’t the most popular password manager around here, but many of our readers use it . The next time you download an update for it, you may want to verify it yourself to prevent a malicious attack. Read more…
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KeePass Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Steal Your Passwords With Shady Updates
Everything is fake. Or at least it’s starting to feel that way. With the American campaign season still going strong, and the internet still, well… existing, we’ve been seeing a lot of suspicious photos in our social media streams. But don’t fall for any of these. They’re all fake. Read more…
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7 More Viral Photos That Are Totally Fake
We already know that most users’ clever passwords aren’t protecting them from hackers . It turns out that the complex password requirements most sites ask you for aren’t doing as much to help either. Read more…
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Why Complex Password Requirements Don’t Necessarily Make You Safer
Reader jones_supa writes: In a world moving to electronic communications, the snail mail traffic has seen a huge drop. Because of this, Posti, the mail delivery organization of Finland will not be delivering letters and magazines on Tuesdays anymore. Tuesday was selected because it generally has the lowest volume of mail. For example, magazines and advertisements are targeted to the end of the week, so that people have more time for shopping dreams in the weekend. Another reason is that Posti recently launched a lawn mowing service which operates on Tuesdays. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Finnish Mail System Abandons Tuesday Delivery