hacking
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Nintendo’s New Game & Watch Hacked a Day Before It’s Official Release
As exciting as it is to retro gamers to see Nintendo resurrect its earliest handheld consoles, with just three games on the new Game & Watch — two of which being Super Mario Bros. — it’s not surprising to see hackers already cracking the hardware open to see if there’s the potential to add more…
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Could Someone Hack My Microchip Implant?
These are, absolutely, very bleak times, but in a sense we should cherish them: we’re living through maybe the last stretch of history before employers start mandating microchips en masse. You’re going to miss living in fear of contracting a deadly virus, once HR brings out the scalpel — and then you’re going to miss…
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Chinese Ambassador’s Twitter Account Likes Porn Video, China Calls for Investigation
Two days from now, we’ll celebrate the second anniversary of that time Ted Cruz’s Twitter account liked porn and all he could say in his defence is that it was a “staffing issue.” But China’s leaders operate a little differently than our homegrown hucksters. On Tuesday, the Twitter account of China’s UK Ambassador liked a…
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A Tesla Employee Foiled an Alleged Ransomware Scheme
CEO Elon Musk called a thwarted cyberattack against Tesla “serious” on Thursday after a Russian national reportedly tried to recruit and bribe an employee to install ransomware on the company’s network at its Gigafactory in northern Nevada.