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Whitehats use DoS attack to score key victory against ransomware crooks

Whitehats used a novel denial-of-service hack to score a key victory against ransomware criminals. Unfortunately, the blackhats have struck back by updating their...

AT&T’s robocall-blocking expansion won’t block spam calls unless you pay extra

AT&T yesterday said it will add "automatic fraud blocking and suspected spam-call alerts" to mobile phone lines for no added cost, but the...

Mysterious illness that paralyzes healthy kids prompts plea from CDC

After a record number of cases in 2018 of a rare, puzzling illness that causes paralysis in otherwise healthy kids, officials at the...

Tiny robot leaps around carrying its own battery, electronics

Robots have traditionally been roughly humanoid in form, which has some obvious advantages, in that the robots are better able to integrate into...

“This is crazy”: FCC kills part of San Francisco’s broadband-competition law

The Federal Communications Commission today voted to preempt part of a San Francisco ordinance that promotes broadband competition in apartment buildings and other...

Third parties confirm AMD’s outstanding Ryzen 3000 numbers

AMD debuted its new Ryzen 3000 desktop CPU line a few weeks ago at E3, and it looked fantastic. For the first time...

Humans may have reached Europe by 210,000 years ago

A few fossilized bones from the back of a skull may prove that our species spread into Eurasia much earlier than previously suspected....

Android Q Beta 5 brings even more gesture navigation changes

Today Google is launching Android Q beta 5, the fifth of six beta releases before we get the final version of Android...

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