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For July 2020 meeting

Slashdot

• Coinbase Says It Prevented Over 1,000 Customers From Sending $280,000 Worth of Bitcoin To Twitter Hackers
• BadPower Attack Corrupts Fast Chargers To Melt or Set Your Device on Fire
• Surveillance Software Scanning File-Sharing Networks Led To 12,000 Arrests
• John McAfee Loses Bet: Bitcoin Hasn't Hit $500K
• Bottleneck for US Coronavirus Response: The Fax Machine
• California Investigating Google For Potential Antitrust Violations
• A Volunteer Supercomputer Team is Hunting for Covid Clues
• 'Broken Heart Syndrome' Has Increased During COVID-19 Pandemic, Small Study Suggests
• The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio
• Signal's New PIN Feature Worries Cybersecurity Experts
• Over 100 Wi-Fi Routers Fail Major Security Test -- Protect Yourself Now
• TikTok Traders Are Pumping Joke Cryptocurrency Dogecoin -- and the Price is Up 95%
• Warning of Serious Brain Disorders in People With Mild Coronavirus Symptoms
• US Senate Amends EARN IT Act -- To Let States Restrict Encryption
• Someone Mysteriously Sent Almost $1 Billion In Bitcoin
• Journalist's Phone Hacked: All He Had To Do Was Visit a Website. Any Website.
• The Value of Tor and Anonymous Contributions To Wikipedia
• Julian Assange Charged in Superseding Indictment
• It's Unconstitutional For Cops To Force Phone Unlocking, Court Rules
• Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies To Help Access Encrypted Data
• PayPal, Venmo To Roll Out Crypto Buying and Selling, Says Report
• You Can Now Buy Bitcoin At CVS, 7-Eleven, Rite-Aid

Soylent News

• With Morgues Brimming, Texas and Arizona Turn to Refrigerator Trucks
• Musk, Obama, Biden, Bezos, Gates-Bitcoin Scam Hits Twitter in Coordinated Blitz
• SIGRed (CVE-2020-1350) Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability on Microsoft DNS Servers
• The Long-Lost Computation Dissertation of Unix Pioneer Dennis Ritchie
• The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College
• The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain
• Snap Removed from Mint
• Millions in Hong Kong Losing Access to Open Net; Downloads of Signal & VPN Surge on Crackdown Fears
• Millions of Home Wi-Fi Routers are Likely Vulnerable to Unpatched Linux Security Exploits
• Why DIY Magic Mushroom Growers are Gathering in an Uncle Ben’s Rice Subreddit
• Microsoft Releases Defender ATP for Linux
• TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data
• Senators Introduce "Balanced" Bill That Aims to End Warrant-Proof Encryption
• U.S. Justice Department Files Second Superseding Indictment Against Assange
• Comcast to Handle DNS-over-HTTPS for Firefox-Using Subscribers
• Politics: White House Ordered NIH to Cancel Coronavirus Research Funding, Fauci Says
• It’s Unconstitutional for Cops to Force Phone Unlocking, Court Rules
• "BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers"

For June 2020 meeting

Slashdot

• Why The $100 Million Police Body Camera Experiment 'Isn't Working'
• Zoom To Launch End-to-End Encryption For All Users -- Not Just Paid Accounts
• Crypto Exchange Quadriga Was a Fraud and Founder Was Running Ponzi Scheme, Regulator Says
• The US Government Just Paid a Crypto Startup to Explore Digital Dollars
• Study: 100% Face Mask Use Could Crush Second, Third COVID-19 Wave
• Hydroxychloroquine Does Not prevent Covid-19 Infection if Exposed, Study Says
• City of Knoxville Shuts Down Network After Ransomware Attack
• As Virus Infections Surge, Countries End Lockdowns
• Audio Engineers Built a Shield To Deflect Police Sound Cannons
• Zoom Won't Encrypt Free Calls Because it Wants To Comply With Law Enforcement
• DEA Authorized To Conduct Surveillance On Protesters
• The 50 Years of Crowd Control Research Police Are Ignoring
• Hackers Plan To Use Stolen Cryptocurrency Exchange Data for SIM Swapping
• Coronavirus Patients Lose Senses of Taste, Smell -- and Haven't Gotten Them Back
• New Coronavirus 'Losing Potency', Top Italian Doctor Says
• Study of 96,000 Covid-19 Patients Finds Hydroxychloroquine Increased Their Risk of Dying
• Social Distancing Is Not Enough
• Your ZIP Code and Your Life Expectancy
• New Zealand PM Flags Four-Day Workweek To Boost Its Shuttered Economy After COVID-19
• Coinbase Announces Plans For 'Remote-First' Work Policy In Light of COVID-19
• The Public Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used To Portray COVID-19
• Signal To Move Away From Using Phone Numbers as User IDs
• Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drops by 6% In First Adjustment After Halving
• Recovered COVID-19 Patients Test Positive But Not Infectious, Data Finds
• Carbon Emissions Dropped 17 Percent Globally Amid Coronavirus
• German Intelligence Can No Longer Freely Spy on the World's Internet Traffic, Top Court Rules
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: Permanently Working From Home Can Be Damaging For Mental Health
• Sudoku as Spectator Sport is Unlikely Lockdown Hit
• Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets Can Get Hacked Too
• Cell-Tower Attacks By Idiots Who Claim 5G Spreads COVID-19 Reportedly Hit US
• China Has Been Trying To Avoid Fallout From Coronavirus. Now 100 Countries Are Pushing for an Investigation

Soylent News

• New York MTA is Battling COVID-19 with UV Lights and Infrared Sensors
• COVID-19 Hospitalizations Could Mean Significant Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs for Many Americans
• The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals
• Crematorium Data Prove China Was Lying About COVID-19
• Facebook Paid for a Tails Zero-Day Exploit to Help the FBI Catch a Predator
• Face Masks Don’t Even Have to Work Especially Well to be Effective
• Americans are Drinking Bleach and Dunking Food in it to Prevent COVID-19
• Ransomware Gang is Auctioning Off Victims’ Confidential Data
• New York Teen Alleged Mastermind Behind $23.8m Crypto Heist
• It's Not Every Day the NSA Publicly Warns of Attacks by Kremlin Hackers
• Ransomware Deploys Virtual Machines to Hide Itself from Antivirus Software
• Black Light Experiment Shows How Quickly a Virus Like Covid-19 Can Spread at a Restaurant
• Vigilante Hackers Target 'Scammers' with Ransomware, DDoS Attacks
• Can You Solve It? Sudoku as a Spectator Sport is Unlikely Lockdown Hit

For May 2020 meeting

Slashdot

• Covid-19 Could Normalize Surveillance - or Provide a Moment for Reasserting Rights
• Supercomputers Breached Across Europe To Mine Cryptocurrency
• Sorrento Finds a Coronavirus Antibody That Blocks Viral Infection 100% in Preclinical Lab Experiments
• Video Games Set a Record for Quarterly Sales
• Senate Passes Surveillance Bill Without Ban On Web History Snooping
• Windows 10 Previews DNS Over HTTPS
• JPMorgan Extends Banking Services To Bitcoin Exchanges
• Senate Defeats Amendment To Shield Browsing Histories in FISA Searches
• Age of Empires 2, a 21-Year-Old Game, is Having an Incredible Year
• Telegram Abandons Its TON Blockchain Platform
• Fauci Warns 'Little Spikes' of Coronavirus Might Turn Into Outbreaks if States Reopen Too Soon
• Amazon Built a Roving Robot Covered in UV Light Bulbs that Could Kill the Coronavirus in Warehouses and Whole Foods Stores
• Ransomware Hit ATM Giant Diebold Nixdorf
• It Happened: Bitcoin Just Experienced Third Halving In Its History
• WHO Conditionally Backs Covid-19 Vaccine Trials that Infect People
• Why America Can Make Semiconductors But Not Swabs
• Bitcoin Crashes as Halving Hype Loses Impetus Over the Weekend
• Man Sues Teenager's 'Crew of Evil Computer Geniuses' Over Crypto Heist
• C Is Now the Most Popular Programming Language, Claims TIOBE
• Largest Study To Date Finds Hydroxychloroquine Doesn't Help Coronavirus Patients

Soylent News

• Politics: COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth About 'First' and 'Third' World Competence
• Good News on the Human Immune Response to the Coronavirus
• U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines to Avoid Mask Shortages: Whistleblower
• Software Developed by SMU Stops Ransomware Attacks
• A Combo of Fasting Plus Vitamin C is Effective for Hard-to-Treat Cancers, Study Shows
• Watch: Incredibly Detailed 3D Model Reveals Coronavirus Down to Atomic Level
• Study Confirms Cats Can Become Infected With and May Transmit COVID-19 to Other Cats
• Excess Coffee Consumption a Culprit for Poor Health
• Politics: Senate Rejects Tougher Standards for Collection of Search and Browsing Data [Updated]
• SpaceX Crew Dragon Simulator Challenges You to Dock with the ISS, and It's Not Easy
• How to Find Free Ebooks While Libraries are Closed
• U.S. Officials: Beware of China and Others Trying to Steal COVID-19 Research
• COVID-19 Lockdowns Significantly Impacting Global Air Quality -- for the Better
• Science Fiction Builds Mental Resiliency in Young Readers
• Grim Outlook for Our Survivability
• Children are Falling Ill With a Baffling Ailment Related to Covid-19
• Court Case Seeks to Eliminate Telephone Consumer Protection Act
• Apple, Google to Ban Location Tracking in Joint Contact Tracing System
• Dozens More Arson Attacks on UK Phone Masts Over 5G Conspiracy Theory
• Politics: CDC Guide to Reopening Was Trashed by the Trump Administration
• IRS Orders the Dead to Return Stimulus Money

Other

• Quarantine Fatigue Is Real

For April 2020 meeting

Slashdot

• The Coder and the Dictator
• Crypto Margin Trading Challenged By US Derivatives Regulator
• Google Removes 49 Chrome Extensions Caught Stealing Crypto-Wallet Keys
• Russia Will Ban the Issuing and Selling of Cryptocurrencies
• Cryptocurrency issuers, exchanges face U.S. class action lawsuits

COVID-19 related

• Blood clots leave clinicians with clues about Covid-19
• Ulster County couple surprised by positive coronavirus test long after recovery
• Asthma is absent among top COVID-19 risk factors
• Regular Exercise Might Protect Against Deadly Coronavirus Complications

For March 2020 meeting

Slashdot

• India Lifts Ban on Cryptocurrency Trading
• Let's Encrypt Discovers CAA Bug, Must Revoke Customer Certificates
• 12 Countries Are Now Considering Central Bank Digital Currencies
• What Happened When Tulsa Paid People to Work Remotely
• Jury Convicts Ex-Microsoft Worker in Digital Currency Scheme
• Drug Dealer Loses $58M in Bitcoin After Landlord Accidentally Throws Codes Out
• Sweden Starts Testing World's First Central Bank Digital Currency
• Coinbase Becomes a Visa Principal Member To Double Down On Debit Card
• The Countdown To Bitcoin Halving 2020 Begins

Soylent News

• HTTPS for All: Let’s Encrypt Reaches One Billion Certificates Issued [Updated]
• Films to Watch During a Pandemic
• Pot Dealer's Seized €54M Bitcoins Up in Smoke After Keys Thrown Out With Fishing Gear

For February 2020 meeting

Slashdot

• IOTA Cryptocurrency Shut Down Its Entire Network After a Wallet Breach
• Ohio Man Arrested For Running Bitcoin Mixing Service That Laundered $300 Million
• Craig Wright Doesn't Have Keys To $8 Billion of Bitcoin
• Bitcoin Gold Hit By 51 Percent Attacks, $72,000 In Cryptocurrency Double-Spent
• Former US Regulator and Accenture Exploring Digital Currency for US Central Banks
• Trend Micro Set Up a Fake Tech Company and Honeypot To Study Cyber Criminals
• Rapper Akon Created His Own Cryptocurrency City In Senegal Called 'Akon City'

Soylent News

• US DOJ Calls Bitcoin Mixing 'a Crime' in Arrest of Software Developer
• People Are Jailbreaking Used Teslas to Get the Features They Expect
• Avast Packaged Detailed User Data to be Sold for Millions of Dollars
• Internet Routers Running Tomato are Under Attack by Notorious Crime Gang
• Former U.S. Regulator Leads Effort to Create Digital Dollar
• Was It an Act of War? That’s Merck Cyber Attack’s $1.3 Billion Insurance Question.

For January 2020 meeting

Slashdot

• New York Is Proposing the Creation of a 'Public Venmo'
• Chrome Extension Caught Stealing Crypto-Wallet Private Keys
• Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Project Has Failed in its Current Form, says Swiss President
• YouTube Goes To War With Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency
• A 22-Year-Old Was Convicted For Attempting To Blackmail Apple For $100,000 In iTunes Gift Cards
• How a Whale Crashed Bitcoin To Sub-$7,000 Overnight

SoylentNews

• Chrome Extension Stealing Cryptocurrency Keys and Passwords
• Lawyers Want Quadriga CX Crypto Exchange Exec who Died Owing $190m Exhumed and Autopsied
• Secret FISA Court Issues Highly Unusual Public Rebuke of FBI for Mistakes
• Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control Over Personal Information

Other

• Proposed standard would make warrant canaries machine-readable
• canarytail proposed standard

For December 2019 meeting

Slashdot

• He Gave a Cryptocurrency Talk In North Korea. The US Arrested Him.
• The Org That Doles Out .Org Websites Just Sold Itself To a For-Profit Company
• The File /var/lib/dbus/machine-id Matters For Your Privacy (and Devuan Fixed It)

SoylentNews

• RSA-240 Factored
• Vulnerability in Fully Patched Android Phones Under Active Attack by Bank Thieves
• Ethereum Developer Arrested by U.S. Government for Giving Blockchain Talk in North Korea
• 110 Nursing Homes Cut Off From Health Records In Ransomware Attack
• Why I Developed My Own Email Newsletter System
• Here's Why the Free Upgrade From Win7 to Win10 Still Works

For November 2019 meeting

Slasdot

• Ransomware, Data Breaches At Hospitals Tied To Uptick In Fatal Heart Attacks
• Delays in Boeing Max Return Began With Near-Crash in Simulator
• Amazon Ring Doorbells Exposed Home Wi-Fi Passwords To Hackers
• Google's Sidewalk Labs Leaked Document Reveals Company's Early Vision For Data Collection, Tax Powers, Criminal Justice
• WhatsApp Hacked To Spy on Top Government Officials at US Allies
• Man Sues AT&T, Saying He Lost $1.8 Million In Cryptocurrency With SIM Card Hack
• City of Johannesburg Hit by Ransomware, Again
• BBC News Launches 'Dark Web' Tor Mirror

SoylentNews

• BBC News Launches Tor Mirror
• US Court Let Police Search GEDmatch's Entire DNA Database Despite Protections
• Sports Teams Are Using Signal to Duck Deflategate-Like Scandals
• Windows BlueKeep RDP Attacks Are Here, Infecting With Miners
• WordPress Admins Infect Their Sites With WP-VCD Via Pirated Plugins
• NYT Report Claims Breathalyzer Readings Can be Highly Inaccurate
• Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says
• QKD Chip Shrinks to a Usable 3mm Size
• Google Knows a Whole Lot About You. Here's How to Make It Forget
• WhatsApp Suit Says Israeli Spyware Maker Exploited Its App To Target 1,400 Users
• Government and Military Hit by WhatsApp Hack

Other

• Experts: Don't reboot your computer after you've been infected with ransomware

For October 2019 meeting

Slashdot

• Facebook Forges Ahead With Libra Despite Some Major Setbacks
• Senators Propose Near-Total Ban On Worker Noncompete Agreements
• Germany's Cybersecurity Agency Recommends Firefox As Most Secure Browser
• Huge Child Porn Ring Busted As Authorities Cite Ability To Crack Bitcoin Privacy
• Edward Snowden: 'Without Encryption, We Will Lose All Privacy. This is Our New Battleground'
• Flaw In Sudo Enables Non-Privileged Users To Run Commands As Root
• G7 Taskforce Warns Global Crytocurrencies Like Libra Pose Risks, May Not Be Approved
• Booking Holdings Is Latest to Pull Out of Libra Association
• New OpenLibra Cryptocurrency: Like Libra, But Not Run By Facebook
• Ransomware Gang's Victim Cracks Their Server and Releases All Their Decryption Keys
• Ebay, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard Drop Out of Facebook Libra Cryptocurrency, After PayPal
• Hospitals That Are Turning Away Patients Reportedly Pay Ransomware Attackers
• Monetary Value Estimates of the Air Pollution and Human Health Impacts of Cryptocurrency Mining
• PayPal Withdraws Support For Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency
• Motorola, Known For Cellphones, is Fast Becoming a Major Player in Government Surveillance
• Ransomware Forces 3 Hospitals To Turn Away All But the Most Critical Patients
• Over 500 US Schools Were Hit By Ransomware in 2019
• Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations

SoylentNews

• Fake Russian Tor Browser Purloins $40,000 in Bitcoin From Dark Web Shoppers
• Researchers Find Fake WordPress Plugins That Secretly Mine Cryptocurrency
• SEC Blocks Telegram’s $1.7 Billion Planned Token Sale
• Unsigned int in sudo Allows Linux Privilege Escalation
• eBay, Stripe, Mastercard, and Visa Drop Out of Facebook's Libra Association
• New Blockchain-Based Music Streaming Service Audius is a Copyright Nightmare
• Senators Pressure Visa and Mastercard Over Work on Facebook’s Blockchain Project
• Court Finds FBI Use Of NSA Database Violated Americans' Fourth Amendment Rights
• Four U.S. Food Chains Disclose Payment Card Theft Via Point of Sale Malware
• HildaCrypt Ransomware Developer Releases Decryption Keys
• PayPal Withdraws Support for Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency
• Crypto Wars: US AG William Barr and UK Home Secretary Priti Patel Shake Fists at Facebook
• FBI Softens Stance On Ransomware: It's (Sort Of) Okay To Pay Off Crims To Get Your Data Back
• Header Aches in Firefox, Tor, Brave and Chrome as HTTP Opens New Security Holes
• Three Types of Network Attacks to Watch For
• Visa, Mastercard Reportedly Reconsidering Support For Facebook's Libra
• Fake Browser Updates Infect Enterprises With Ransomware, Banking Trojans
• Linux to Get Kernel 'Lockdown' Feature
• Ransomware Attacks Leave U.S. Hospitals Turning Away Patients
• Ransomware Incident to Cost Danish Company a Whopping $95 Million
• EPFL Researchers Invent Low-Cost Alternative to Bitcoin
• Ethereum ‘ICO Architect’ Arrested Over Alleged $12M Cryptocurrency Extortion

Other

• Looking Back at the Snowden Revelations
• RaspiBlitz - DIY Bitcoin & Lightning Node on a RaspberryPi

For September 19, 2019 meeting

Slashdot

• Crypto-mining Malware Saw New Life Over the Summer as Monero Value Tripled
• United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden
• France Took One Look At Facebook's Cryptocurrency and Said, 'Hell, Non'
• Giant Entercom Radio Network Gets Ransomwared
• Thousands of Servers Infected With New Lilocked (Lilu) Ransomware
• Someone Just Moved $1B in Bitcoin
• Google Has Secret Webpages That Feed Your Personal Data To Advertisers, Report Says
• Ransomware Hits Hundreds of Dentist Offices in the US
• Cops Hijack Botnet, Remotely Wipe Malware From 850,000 Computers
• US Cyberattack Hurt Iran's Ability To Target Oil Tankers, Officials Say
• Australian Who Says He Invented Bitcoin Ordered To Hand Over Up To $5B
• Telegram Will Launch Its Gram Cryptocurrency By October 31 Or Bust
• Microsoft Readies exFAT Patents For Linux and Open Source
• Apple is Turning Siri Audio Clip Review Off by Default and Bringing it in House
• Doorbell-Camera Firm Ring Has Partnered With 400 Police Forces, Extending Surveillance Reach
• US Officials Fear Ransomware Attack Against 2020 Election
• Police Sell Cyberattackers $1M Bitcoin Stash To Compensate Victims
• UK Cybersecurity Agency Urges Devs To Drop Python 2
• ITER: 'Where the Sun Will Be Re-Born on Earth'
• Why Are 'Supply Chain Attacks' on Open Source Libraries Getting Worse?
• Apple Contractors Were Each Listening To 1,000 Siri Recordings a Day, Says Report
• Employees Connect Nuclear Plant To the Internet So They Can Mine Cryptocurrency
• Members of Facebook's 'Crypto Mafia' Reportedly Getting Cold Feet About Libra Currency
• Justice Department Indicts 80 Individuals, Most in Nigeria, in a Massive Business Email Scam Bust
• Researchers Are Creepily Close To Predicting When You're Going To Die
• Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked a Month Before Election
• Microsoft Contractors Listened To Xbox Owners in Their Homes

SoylentNews

• TFlower Ransomware - the Latest Attack Targeting Businesses
• Consensual Phishing: How to Crack Your Half-Forgotten Crypto Password
• (Updated) Edward Snowden: "I'm Not Asking for a Pass. What I'm Asking for is a Fair Trial"
• Stormclouds Gather for Facebook's Libra Currency
• Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff
• Hong Kong Protests are Accelerating Cryptocurrency Adoption
• Fixing A Cheap UPS Hat For Your Raspberry Pi With A Tiny Daemon
• Australian Who Says He Invented Bitcoin Ordered To Hand Over Up To $5Bn
• Police to Sell Hacker's $1.1 Million Bitcoin Stash to Compensate Victims
• Protocol Used by 630,000 Devices Can be Abused for Devastating DDoS Attacks
• Stealth Glider Made Out of Special Polymer Self-Destructs in Sunlight
• Moscow's Blockchain Voting System Cracked A Month Before Election
• Alarm System Defeated By $2 Wireless Dongle, Nobody Surprised
• 'Coordinated Ransomware Attack' in Texas Hits 23 Local Governments
• Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster
• Man Sued for Using Bogus YouTube Takedowns to Get Address for Swatting
• Ring Asks Police Not to Tell Public How its Law Enforcement Backend Works
• Valve Says Turning Away Researcher Reporting Steam Vulnerability Was a Mistake
• Router Network Isolation Broken By Covert Data Exfiltration
• VLC Fixes 13 Security Flaws; Booby-Trapped Media File Could Pwn You
• Webmin Backdoored for Over a Year
• 4th Matrix Movie Coming

For August 22, 2019 meeting

Slashdot

• Terrorists Turn To Bitcoin For Funding, and They're Learning Fast
• North Korea Took $2 Billion in Cyberattacks To Fund Weapons Program
• Walmart Could Be Looking To Rival Facebook's Libra With a USD-Pegged Stablecoin Issuance, Patent Filing Shows
• US Files Lawsuit Against Bitcoin Exchange That Helped Launder Ransomware Profits
• IRS Sending Warning Letters To More Than 10,000 Cryptocurrency Holders

SoylentNews

• Criminals Are Racing To Cash Out Their Bitcoin
• Angry Mob Burns Down Home of Suspected Bitcoin Swindler
• QNAPCrypt Malware Targets NAS Servers
• Chuck E. Cheese Mouse Gets Roasted by Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts
• Wal-Mart Signals Interest in Developing its Own Cryptocurrency
• There’s a Big Problem With Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency
• IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes

For June, 2019 meeting

Slashdot

• Robocalls Can Now Get Blocked By Your Carrier By Default
• Facebook Set To Reveal Own Cryptocurrency Later This Month, Report Says
• Bitcoin's Rally Masks Uncomfortable Fact: Almost Nobody Uses It
• Blockchain Firm Planning To Build 'Smart City' Buys Slock.it
• US Demands Social Media Details From Visa Applicants
• Heavily Processed Food Like Ready Meals and Ice Cream Linked To Early Death
• Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform App Dream Is Dead and Buried
• In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen NSA Tool Wreaks Havoc
• What If We Could Reuse The Packaging on Consumer Products?
• Docker Bug Allows Root Access To Host File System
• 'The Future of AT&T Is An Ad-tracking Nightmare Hellworld'

SoylentNews

• FCC Approves Plan to Stop Robocalls!
• New Tool Helps Travelers Avoid Airlines That Use Facial Recognition Technology
• NSA Says You Should Update Microsoft Windows (BlueKeep)
• Doom Creator Just Released a Massive Addition to the Original Game
• Facebook Reportedly Thinks There's No 'Expectation of Privacy' on Social Media
• 50K Servers Infected With Cryptomining Malware in Nansh0U Campaign
• Unpatched Flaw Affects All Docker Versions, Exploits Ready
• Facebook Plans to Launch 'GlobalCoin' Cryptocurrency in 2020
• Bestmixer Seized by Police for Washing $200 Million in Tainted Cryptocurrency Clean
• Georgia Supreme Court Rules That State Has No Obligation to Protect Personal Information
• Fake Cryptocurrency Apps on Google Play Try to Profit on Bitcoin Price Surge

For May, 2019 meeting

Slashdot

• Bitcoin 'Roars Back', Surges 50% in 30 Days
• A Large Chunk of Ethereum Clients Remain Unpatched
• Just 376 People Found to Own a Third of All Ether Cryptocurrency
• Microsoft Launches Decentralized Identity Tool on Bitcoin Blockchain
• Intel CPUs Released in Last 8 Years Impacted by New Zombieload Side-Channel Attack
• Bitcoin-Trading 'Seasteader' Now on the Run For His Life
• Is Bitcoin Becoming a Good Investment?
• Binance Says More Than $40 Million in Bitcoin Stolen in 'Large Scale' Hack
• 90% of Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Projects Are in Trouble
• Facebook's Cryptocurrency Might Work Like Loyalty Points
• Nearly Half of College Students Surveyed in a New Report Are Going Hungry
• Blender Developers Find Old Linux Drivers Are Better Maintained Than Windows
• Microsoft Outlook Email Breach Targeted Cryptocurrency Users

SoylentNews

• Regular Crosswords and Number Puzzles Linked to Sharper Brain in Later Life
• Bitcoin Stolen in Binance Hack Moved to Seven Addresses
• The CIA Will Use its New Dark Web Site to Collect Anonymous Tips
• Hackers Went Undetected in Citrix's Internal Network for Six Months
• Two Charged With Running ‘Shadow Banking’ Service for Crypto Exchanges
• We Got U.S. Border Officials to Testify Under Oath. Here’s What We Found Out
• FedEx CIO: It’s Time to Mandate Blockchain for International Shipping

For April, 2019 meeting

Slashdot

• SoftBank Founder Masayoshi Son Lost $130 Million on Bitcoin
• Bitcoin Couldn't Hide Russia's Operatives From Mueller's Investigation
• West Virginia Will Allow 'Blockchain Voting' In the 2020 Election
• Unexpected Protection Added To Microsoft Edge Subverts IE Security
• The Quest To Save the Banana From Extinction
• The Mueller Report
• Mark Zuckerberg Leveraged Facebook User Data To Fight Rivals and Help Friends, Leaked Documents Show
• US Government Admits It Doesn't Know If Assange Cracked Password For Manning
• Is The Linux Desktop In Trouble?
• Ecuador Complains Julian Assange Was a Bad Housegust, Neglected His Pet Cat
• Amazon and Google Fight Bill That Prohibits Secretly Recording You
• Dragonblood Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Wi-Fi WPA3 Standard
• Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London
• Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell Alexa
• China Wants To Ban Bitcoin Mining
• Opera Adds Crypto Wallet To Its Desktop Browser, Launches Anti-Chrome Campaign in Europe
• Most Popular Programming Languages: C++ Knocks Python Out of Top Three in New Study
• Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux?
• The World's Leading Cause of Death? A Bad Diet
• Linus Torvalds on Social Media: 'It's a Disease. It Seems To Encourage Bad Behavior.'
• A Suite of Digital Cryptography Tools, Released Today, Has Been Mathematically Proven To Be Completely Secure and Free of Bugs
• Bank of America Tech Chief Is Skeptical of Blockchain Even Though The Company Has the Most Patents For It

SoylentNews

• Facial Recognition Scanners To Replace Boarding Passes, No Effective Opt-Out
• Let's Encrypt to Transition to ISRG Root
• New Insight Into How Obesity, Insulin Resistance Can Impair Cognition
• McAfee Joins Sophos, Avira, Avast-The Latest Windows Update Breaks Them All
• After Heart Attack: Late Dinner and No Breakfast a Killer Combination
• Facebook Stored Millions of Instagram Passwords in Plain Text
• "Sitting all day Ruined my Health; VR Saved Me"
• Breaking News: Mueller Report Released [Updated]
• Sleep Myths 'Damaging Your Health'
• Disgruntled Security Researcher Is Dropping Zero-Day Vulnerabilities On WordPress Users
• Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea
• Law Enforcement Taps Google's Sensorvault for Location Data, Report Says
• US Legislators Frequently Let Corporations Write Your Laws
• Family Finds Hidden Camera in Airbnb's Smoke Alarm
• Multiple VPNs Subject to Compromise
• Breaking News: Julian Assange Associate Arrested In Ecuador
• Smart Speaker Recordings Reviewed by Humans
• China Wants to Ban (or Control?) Bitcoin Mining
• Breaking News: Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London
• Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy
• The Robocall Crisis Will Never Totally be Fixed
• Facebook Still Tracks You After You Deactivate Your Account
• Massive Bank App Security Holes: You Might Want to Go Back to That Money Under the Mattress Tactic
• New York's Facial Recognition on RFK bridge not doing well so far
• Take it from an Economist, Medicare for All is the Most Sensible way to fix Health Care in the USA
• SUSE Seems Not GDPR Compliant
• Porphyromonas Gingivalis a Contributor to Alzheimer's Disease
• New Therapy Target for Drug-Induced Liver Failure
• How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps
• Former Mozilla CTO Subjected to Warrantless Phone Search
• 25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds
• Microsoft Kills Off Its Book Store, Offers Refunds to Everyone
• Gut Microbiome Directs the Immune System to Fight Cancer
• Bitcoin Surges 20% Following Anonymous Order
• High-fructose Corn Syrup Boosts Intestinal Tumor Growth in Mice
• Mt. Gox Bitcoin Exchanges' Karpeles Appeals Conviction
• The Planet's Prodigious Poo Problem
• Unpatched Vulnerability in MikroTik RouterOS Enables Easily Exploitable Denial of Service Attack
• How Your Office Job is Affecting Your Metabolism
• Eating Mushrooms May Reduce the Risk of Cognitive Decline
• Endlessh: an SSH Tarpit