WannaCry coming back? Windows and Linux playing nice together? You have an alligator where? Should Facebook get broken into pieces? The Stones will be rolling again soon? There are just a few of the many stories covered in this week’s Tech News. Below are all the headlines grouped into categories. Click on a headline to read the entire story.
Privacy and Security
- Hundreds of Orpak gas station systems can be easily hacked, thanks to hardcoded passwords
- Refunds for 300 million phone users sought in lawsuits over location-data sales
- Two years after WannaCry, a million computers remain at risk
- Microsoft warns wormable Windows bug could lead to another WannaCry
- Limit How Long Google Keeps Your Data With This New Setting
- How Hackers Broke WhatsApp With Just a Phone Call
- Microsoft Office 365: Change these settings or risk getting hacked, warns US govt
- The Windows 10 security guide: How to safeguard your business
- Microsoft’s First Windows XP Patch in Years Is a Bad Sign
Electronics
- Lenovo shows off a folding-screen laptop, coming some time in 2020
- HP Spectre 15 x360 2019 review: Carving a niche in a crowded space
- Google Assistant is 10x faster and knows where your mom lives
- 9 home security systems you can install yourself
- The best coolers you can buy this summer
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- Marshall continues to impress with new retro portable speakers
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Software
- Microsoft: The open source company
- Enemies No More: Microsoft Brings the Linux Kernel to Windows
- Slack aims to be the most important software company in the world, says CEO
- Photographers fret as Adobe tests removing $10 Lightroom-Photoshop plan
- Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop
- Second Firefox fix repairs broken browser extensions for more people
- Android Auto is getting updated looks, and you should be excited
- Alexa for Windows 10 PCs goes hands-free
WordPress
- 6 Powerful Rich Snippets WordPress Plugins: Schema Markup Made Easy
- Multiple Vulnerabilities in the WordPress Ultimate Member Plugin
- WordPress finally gets the security features a third of the Internet deserves
Technology
- Amazon offers employees $10K and 3 months’ pay to start their own delivery businesses
- NASA Says ‘No Image Will Surpass This’ Largest-Ever View of Space
- Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Moon lunar lander, plans for huge space colonies
- CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415 parts per million for the first time in human history
- NASA Needs $1.6 Billion More to Send a Human to the Moon
- Jeff Bezos personally dumps a truckload of dirt on FedEx’s future
Phones
- After Galaxy Fold fiasco, Note 10 may be the hero phone that Samsung needs
- 6 new hacks for your Android and iPhone
- Breaking My Phone Addiction—Via My Phone
- Google Pixel 3A at $399 is a response to crazy-expensive phones
- How Google plans to make foldable phones and pop-up selfie cameras better
- Goodbye, walled garden: Apple gets bitten right in the app store
- Pixel Schmixel: How Google’s phone can escape its Android prison
- Samsung reportedly readying Galaxy Fold for release after finding ‘fix’
Design
- What’s up with the new Facebook app logo?
- What would you name Android Q? Google says this one’s ‘hard’
Fun Stories
- Driver found with dead, naked wife in passenger seat in Eloy, Arizona
- Utah woman allegedly tried to kill live-in boyfriend with Drano
- Florida man wore werewolf mask as he tortured toddler with torch, shock collar, deputies say
- Florida man: Driving drunk on riding lawnmower, crashing into police car
- Fugitive Florida man on bike hoped ‘hideous’ blonde wig disguise would help him evade deputies, police say
- VIDEO: Florida man in speedo waves down deputies to show off his marijuana plant
- Florida man faces foreclosure over fines for uncut grass
- Florida Man Speeds Down Highway While Standing Out Of Sunroof, Says He’d Rather Go To Jail Than Home To His Wife
- Florida man brings his kid to ‘work.’ Police call that child abuse
- Man arrested in Florida after driving stolen truck with caskets inside, Highway Patrol says
- Florida Manatee Orgy Near Tampa Bay Highway Causes World’s Most Awkward Traffic Jam
- Florida Woman Arrested in Burger King Bathroom With 7 Syringes Hidden in Vagina: Deputies
- Cops to Florida woman: ‘Do you have anything else?’ She pulled a gator from her pants.
- How Spam Got Its Name
- Bruce Springsteen Reveals He Just Wrote an Entire Album for E Street Band to Tour Behind
- The deepest hole we have ever dug
- A 2,624-Year-Old Tree Has Just Been Found Growing in a Swamp in America
- Watch Mick Jagger’s Post-Heart Surgery Dance Moves
- Rolling Stones Announce Rescheduled Dates For 2019 ‘No Filter’ Tour
- Tom Petty’s daughters sue his widow for $5M
Social Media
- Report: Facebook looking to disrupt credit cards with cryptocurrency
- YouTube’s Bumper Machine offers an automated way to create six-second ads
- Twitter bug disclosed some users’ location data to an unnamed partner
- Shady Facebook app developer may have sold user data, Facebook alleges
- After year-long lockout, Twitter is finally giving people their accounts back
- Twitter launches new search features to stop the spread of misinformation about vaccines
- Facebook Is Finding Problems With Artificial Intelligence Too
- Can Facebook be broken up? What you need to know
- Chris Hughes Is Right: We Should Dismantle Facebook
- Facebook should be punished, not broken up
- Facebook isn’t secretly listening in on your phone conversations. Really
- I Tweeted Out My Phone Number—and Rediscovered Humanity
- How Twitter Became My Sacred Space
- How to make posting Instagram hashtag clusters a breeze
If you see some important tech news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.
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