Double KO! Capcom's Street Fighter V installs hidden rootkit on PCs

Fatality – wait, no, what? That's the other game A fresh update for Capcom's Street Fighter V for PCs includes a knock-out move: a secret rootkit that gives any installed application kernel-level privileges.…

UK copyright troll weeps, starts 20-week stretch in the cooler for beating up Uber driver

Night out at Raffles ends up with stay in the Big House The owner of a firm involved in sending speculative invoices to suspected downloaders is in trouble of his own after being convicted of a brutal assault on an Uber driver outside an exclusive L…

Double KO! Capcom's Street Fighter V installs hidden rootkit on PCs

Fatality – wait, no, what? That's the other game A fresh update for Capcom's Street Fighter V for PCs includes a knock-out move: a secret rootkit that gives any installed application kernel-level privileges.…

'Spectacles by Snapchat' leak shows camera-equipped sunglasses

As if a report that Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel had been spotted wearing a pair of camera-packing sunglasses wasn't enough, now Business Insider says it has an ad or demo video showing the product. Apparently posted to YouTube until it was ta…

Pluto's Liquid Water Ocean Might Be Insanely Deep

In recent months, there’s been growing evidence that Pluto is hiding a liquid water ocean beneath its frozen surface. New models by researchers at Brown University support this hypothesis, and take it one mind-boggling step further: Pluto’s ocean ma…

New Two-Lensed Camera Shows What It's Like to Ride on the Back of Whale

Researchers from Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station have developed a two-lensed camera that sticks to the backs of filter-feeding whales with suction cups. The new device has been used to capture unprecedented footage of whales in action, and it’s of…

How to Create a Bootable macOS Sierra Installer

Some Mac users like creating a bootable USB install drive for macOS Sierra, which offers for a way to easily update multiple machines, perform clean installs, and to have just as a backup Mac OS Sierra installer should the need arise. This walkthrou…

This May be The 4K UHD Apple TV We’ve Been Waiting For

An Apple filing with the FCC looks very much like it might be a new 4K UHD, 5th generation Apple TV just in time for the December holiday period.  It wouldn’t be a stretch to think that the old 4th generation Apple TV from October 2015 had been dela…

Uni student cuffed for 'hacking professor's PC to change his grades'

Someone has been watching Wargames too much A student at Kennesaw State University in Georgia is accused of hacking into his professor's computer to improve his grades.…

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Weekly Roundup: Apple’s auto rumors, GoPro’s new devices and CZI’s $3B pledge

 This week, Yahoo came clean about a 2014 hack, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced a huge investment to cure disease, rumors swirled around possible car tech acquisitions for Apple and the AI startup space continued to heat up with a few c…

Fix your headphone dongles with iOS 10.0.2

Photos app and app extension bugs also fixed.

SpaceX Figured Out Why Its Expensive Rocket Exploded

Earlier this month, we watched a SpaceX rocket —fully loaded with its satellite—explode suddenly and inexplicably. At the time, the cause remained a mystery, but now SpaceX’s engineers have traced the flaw to its source.Read more...

Hugo Weaving Enjoyed Outrageousness of Playing Red Skull in Captain America

Hugo Weaving was a great Nazi in Captain America: The First Avenger, playing Cap’s nemesis, Red Skull. And given that it was a comic book movie, meaning time and space are fluid—and given that any non-Loki villain has failed to really capture people…

Man Claims Uber Laughed at Him When He Tried To Report Sexual Assault 

A New York man says he was laughed at by an operator at Uber’s emergency hotline after reporting that he was sexually assaulted by an Uber driver this month. The operator later hung up after refusing to refer the man to her manager. The driver has s…

This Drone Can Fly Forever Without a Battery

Want a drone to fly longer and farther? Give it a bigger battery. But that adds weight, which in turn reduces the drone’s flight time. It’s quite a conundrum. It seems like an unresolvable catch-twenty-two, except that someone has finally found a wa…

Do AI chat bots need a personality bypass – or will we only trust gabber 'droids with personality?

Machine-learning boffins debate making software human Machine communication is an area generating much excitement in AI. The ability to give machines a voice and personality has been the subject of many sci-fi films, and the push in natural language…

SpaceX: explosie Falcon 9-raket kwam mogelijk door lek in helium-systeem

SpaceX heeft laten weten dat de explosie van de Falcon 9-raket mogelijk werd veroorzaakt door 'een lek in het systeem voor cryogene helium'. Begin deze maand explodeerde de raket tijdens een test, waarbij ook de satelliet aan boord verloren ging.

'Google kondigt op 4 oktober een eigen slimme wifi-router aan'

Android Police meldt op basis van naar eigen zeggen betrouwbare bronnen dat Google op het event van 4 oktober een eigen 'slimme' wifi-router zal aankondigen. Het apparaat moet de naam 'Google WiFi' dragen en 129 dollar kosten.

Xiaomi's Android TV box showed up at a Walmart for $69

It looks like you may be able to check out Google's Android TV soon. Since Xiaomi's Mi Box was announced at Google I/O this year, multiple reports have speculated that the company's set top box will be available for a sub-$100 price soon. I…

LGBTQ site AfterEllen struck down by cruel modern media climate

The website AfterEllen went live in 2002, producing content for and written by lesbian and bisexual women. Since then, other sites like Autostraddle launched aimed at a similar audience and mainstream sites like The Huffington Post, Buzzfee…