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NFC flaws let researchers hack an ATM by waving a phone
Chalongrat Chuvaree | Getty Images For years, security researchers and cybercriminals have hacked ATMs by using all possible avenues to their innards, from opening a front panel and sticking a thumb drive into a USB port to drilling a hole that exposes internal wiring. Now, one researcher has found... Read more
Mark Zuckerberg’s ghostly sunblock photo finds new life on his surfboard
In April, photographers caught Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on vacation in Hawaii absolutely slathered in sunscreen and looking like the Joker, or Commander Data, or a mime. In an Instagram Live discussion at the time, the billionaire said he was trying to hide from the paparazzi, ruefully noting the ploy... Read more
US Vaccinations Slow, Americans Travel Again, and More Coronavirus News
Vaccination rates slow in the US, new variants gain traction, and travel picks up among Americans. Here’s what you should know: Want to receive this weekly roundup and other coronavirus news? Sign up here! Headlines The US falls short of Biden’s July 4 goal as vaccination rates slow Earlier... Read more
PagerDuty expands enterprise incident management with remediation tools
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. As part of an effort to expand the reach of its incident management platform beyond IT teams, PagerDuty this week added a service graph to its portfolio through which users can discover... Read more
GM Financial will ban you from selling lease to rivals next month, report says
GM wants first dibs on your off-lease vehicle. Bloomberg/Getty Images GM Financial will reportedly no longer allow its lease customers to sell their vehicles to rivals, amid tight inventory levels for new and used vehicles. Instead, customers will only have the ability to trigger an option for a direct... Read more
The Scary Blind Spots in Healthcare AI
Artificial intelligence is everywhere. And increasingly, it’s becoming a critical part of healthcare. Doctors use it to try to suss out symptoms of deadly infections like sepsis; companies like Google are developing apps to help you identify ailments just by uploading some pics.  But AI is only as good... Read more
NIS America is making fan translations official with Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. NIS America announced today localizations for four games in Nihon Falcom’s The Legend of Heroes series, and it is turning to a dedicated group of fans to officially bring a couple of... Read more
Google pushes its Chrome cookie ban back to 2023
Google is delaying its long-promised move to block third-party cookies from its Chrome browser by another year, citing the need to “move at a responsible pace” and “avoid jeopardizing the business models of many web publishers which support freely available content.” Google’s business model likely factored into the decision,... Read more
Steam Summer Sale: 10 discounted PC games to buy now
EA Amazon Prime Day is out, Steam’s annual Summer Sale is very much in. There are tons of PC games with huge discounts on the Steam store at the moment, such that the store has a choose-your-own-adventure style menu to help you browse through them all. It’s worth taking... Read more
The Biggest Windows 11 News Is an App Store Overhaul
Meet Microsoft, the champion of competitive marketplaces. Not a sentence you’d ever expect to read 20 years ago. But Microsoft’s Windows 11 event today made it clear that the company wants to position itself as the anti-Apple, at least when it comes to distributing software. The upcoming version of... Read more