security Virtually every modern computer is vulnerable to a pair of devastating attacks, and there's only a fix for one of them, and it sucks Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Tpmfail: a timing attack that can extract keys from secure computing chips in 4-20 minutes Cory Doctorow

china How China grabbed NSA hacking tools and used them to attack U.S. allies Xeni Jardin

Business Bunnie Huang's tour-de-force explanation of how hardware implants and supply chain hacks work Cory Doctorow

medicine Ho ho no: risk of suffering a heart attack is 40% higher on Christmas Eve Seamus Bellamy

security Connected sex-toy allows for code-injection attacks on a robot you wrap around your genitals Cory Doctorow

Business Hackers can freeze the camera that lets you know whether your "Amazon Key" equipped door is locked and who is using it Cory Doctorow

videos Researchers show they can beat address space layout randomization with Javascript in a browser (!) Cory Doctorow

Business Crooks can guess Visa card details in six seconds by querying lots of websites at once Cory Doctorow

Science It's pretty easy to hack traffic lights Cory Doctorow

Business The surveillance business model goes to war against the FTC Cory Doctorow

transparency Research files on El Salvador stolen from human rights group suing CIA over El Salvador Xeni Jardin

offworld War without tears Maxwell Neely-Cohen

science fiction Shovel Ready: Excerpt from hardboiled dystopian thriller by Adam Sternbergh Adam Sternbergh

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