Millions of Americans “are being instructed to use ID.me, along with its facial recognition software, to get their unemployment benefits,” reports CNN. The software compares their photo ID with a selfie video they take on their phone with the company’s…
SANS Institute Hopes to Find New Cybersecurity Talent With a Game
storagedude writes: Alan Paller, founder of the cybersecurity training SANS Technology Institute, has launched an initiative aimed at finding and developing cybersecurity talent at the community college and high school level — through a game deve…
Colonial Pipeline Sued by Customers Affected by Its Ransomware Incident
The owner of the EZ Mart gas station is suing Colonial Pipeline, accusing it of lax security, reports the Washington Post:
He and his lawyers are hoping to also represent the hundreds of other small gas stations that were hurt by the hack. It’s just o…
RNA Breakthrough Creates High-Yield, Drought-Tolerant Rice, Potatoes
“Thanks to a breakthrough in RNA manipulation, crop scientists have developed new potato and rice varieties with higher yields and increased drought tolerance,” reports UPI:
By inserting a gene responsible for production of a protein called FTO, scien…
Virtual Comic-Con Includes Trailers For ‘Blade Runner’ Series, ‘Dune’ Movie – and NASA Panels
Comic-Con went virtual again in 2020. (San Diego businesses will miss the chance to profit from the 100,000 visitors the convention usually attracted.) And NPR reports the convention has gotten smaller in other ways:
Both Marvel Studios and DC are stay…
‘Nuclear Power’s Reliability is Dropping as Extreme Weather Increases’
A comprehensive new analysis published in Nature “calculates that the frequency of climate-related nuclear plant outages is almost eight times higher than it was in the 1990s,” reports Ars Technica.
“The analysis also estimates that the global nucle…
Does the Open Source Movement Need to Evolve?
A cloud company’s CTO argues on CTO that the “hypocrite commits” controversy “is symptomatic, on every side, of related trends that threaten the entire extended open-source ecosystem and its users.”
That ecosystem has long wrestled with problems of sc…