Month: January 2018

21-foot swell recorded in Monterey Bay Published on January 10, 2018 at 03:47PM by Amy Graff A National Weather Service buoy on the bay’s edge recorded swells up to 21 feet high—the height of a two-story building—at 8 p.m.

21-foot swell recorded in Monterey Bay Published on January 10, 2018 at 03:47PM by Amy Graff A National Weather Service buoy on the bay’s edge recorded swells up to 21 feet high—the height of a two-story building—at 8 p.m.

WhatsApp Security Flaws Could Be Exploited To Covertly Add Members To Group Chats Published on January 10, 2018 at 07:01PM A group of crytopgraphers from Germany’s Ruhr University Bochum have uncovered flaws in WhatsApp’s security that compromise the instant messaging service’s end-to-end encryption. WhatsApp, owned […]

SourceForge Debuts New UI and GitHub Sync Tool Published on January 10, 2018 at 05:00PM SourceForge on Tuesday introduced an overhaul of its website to give it a new look and add new features. Among the most notable additions, the popular repository, which hosts over […]

Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricking Ubuntu 16.04 Computers Published on January 10, 2018 at 06:21PM An anonymous reader writes: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 users who updated to receive the Meltdown and Spectre patches are reporting they are unable to boot their systems and have been forced […]

North Carolina Congressional Map Ruled Unconstitutionally Gerrymandered Published on January 10, 2018 at 05:40PM An anonymous reader shares a report: A panel of federal judges struck down North Carolina’s congressional map on Tuesday, condemning it as unconstitutional because Republicans had drawn the map seeking a […]

"We'll never have a position in them," Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" Wednesday morning. "I can say with almost certainty that they will come to a bad ending." If those ominous words aren't enough to stress investors out, earlier […]

Retail and grocery giants Walmart and Kroger are adding cashier-less technology to hundreds of stores, a continuation of a trend that could make checkout lines and cashiers obsolete in the future. Walmart announced Tuesday that it would add the platform, dubbed “Scan & Go,” to […]

Security researchers have revealed details of a vulnerability in WhatsApp’s security that could be used to compromise the secrecy of encrypted group chats on the messaging platform. The risk associated with the flaw is limited on account of attackers needing to have access to WhatsApp […]

Retail and grocery giants Walmart and Kroger are adding cashier-less technology to hundreds of stores, a continuation of a trend that could make checkout lines and cashiers obsolete in the future. Walmart announced Tuesday that it would add the platform, dubbed “Scan & Go,” to […]