Waze users are helping intoxicated drivers to evade checkpoints and could thus be “engaging in criminal conduct,” say police.

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So much for creating a three-headed Cerberus marketing-happy chat dog! Also, we’ll soon see the who-what-huh? behind the ads we’re shown.

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Traditional computers work with binary digits, or bits as they are called for short, that are either zero or one. Typically, zero and one are represented by some traditional physical property – a hole punched in a tape, or no hole; a metal disc tilted left or right by an electric current; an electronic capacitor […]

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The researcher says it works without root or administrator privileges and without password prompts. But he’s not revealing how it works to Apple because there’s no money for him in its invite-only/iOS-only bounties.

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It still works, you know. And there are photos and videos on it.

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Google’s released a Chrome extension, Password Checkup, that’s designed to warn users when they enter a username and password the company has detected in a data breach.

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Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash has fixed a flaw that would have allowed anyone with knowledge of it to produce counterfeit currency.

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A clear and present danger: Anyone with a web browser who knows where to look can access Jack’d users’ photos, be they private or public.

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From Firefox 66 for desktop and Android, due in March, media autoplay of video or audio will be blocked by default.

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Chainalysis found that two groups, which it calls Alpha and Beta, are responsible for stealing around $1 billion in funds from exchanges.

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