Top Stories for the Week of October 11, 2017

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• Yahoo has revealed that the major security breach in 2013 compromised all three billion accounts the company maintained. That's a three-fold increase over the estimate it disclosed previously.
• Over the last week, six reports have come to light which show the new iPhone 8 Plus phones splitting apart soon after they start to be used.
• Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia said at the GPU Technology Conference in Beijing that Moore’s Law is dead because it cannot keep pace with advancements in GPU design.
• It may sound like science fiction, but researchers are closing in on the creation of an ingestible robot that can perform a variety of functions from within the human body.
• A couple in the US have admitted stealing goods from Amazon valued at more than $1.2m by repeatedly pretending that items they ordered were damaged in the post.

Top Stories for the Week of October 4, 2017

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• If you were hoping to download Ubuntu 17.10 32-bit come its release next month we’ve some bad news to give you.
• There's a bug in the most current version of Internet Explorer that leaks the addresses, search terms, or any other text typed into the address bar.
• Dyson, the engineering company best known for its vacuum cleaners and fans, plans to spend £2bn developing a "radical" electric car.
• In failing to correctly patch a known vulnerability and exposing the personal data of potentially 143 million Americans to hackers, Equifax made a security blunder of epic proportions — however, it appears the company is just getting started.

Top Stories for the Week of September 28, 2017

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For our 10th Anniversary game show special, Sasha has lost her voice [again] and must utilize the amazing lip reading skills of her understudy, Carrie Webb. Together, they'll cover a top news story about a robotic kitchen... or a dinner meeting for singles. We're not sure.

Top Stories for the Week of September 20, 2017

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• Equifax's chief information officer and chief security officer “are retiring” and the company has admitted it knew Apache Struts needed patching in March, but looks to have fluffed attempts to secure the software.
• Researchers recently found at least 50 apps in the official Google Play market that made charges for fee-based services without the knowledge or permission of users.
• US big box retailer Best Buy has pulled from its shelves Kaspersky Lab's PC security software amid fears of Kremlin spies using the antivirus tool to snoop on Americans.
• Do you use CCleaner on your Windows machines? The official build was laced with malware!

Top Stories for the Week of September 13, 2017

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• A handheld device can identify cancerous tissue in 10 seconds, according to scientists at the University of Texas.
• Any unpatched Android devices running a version older than Oreo is going to need patching fairly soon, with researchers turning up a class of vulnerability that lets malware draw fake dialogs so users “okay” their own pwnage.
• About 143 million US customers of credit report giant Equifax may have had information compromised in a cyber security breach, the company has disclosed.
• A design flaw within the Windows kernel that could stop antivirus software from recognizing malware isn't going to be fixed.
• Recently, Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser was intrigued by a trade publication study in Australia that said Facebook was claiming to reach 1.7 million more 16- to 39-year olds than actually existed in the country, according to Australian census data.
• If you have a plugin called “Display Widgets” on your WordPress website, remove it immediately. The last three releases of the plugin have contained code that allows the author to publish any content on your site. It is a backdoor.

Top Stories for the Week Of September 6, 2017

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• Nine years after going open source, Reddit is archiving the source code for its website and mobile apps.
• Iconic board game Settlers of Catan is coming to virtual reality.
• A US couple have filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Amazon, claiming they sustained eye injuries from solar eclipse glasses purchased on the site.
• Talk about painful software updates. An estimated 465,000 people in the US are getting notices that they should update the firmware that runs their life-sustaining pacemakers or risk falling victim to potentially fatal hacks.
• Nanobots that drill into cancer cells can kill the cancer in just 60 seconds.