In the beginning, there was machine languages and assembler. Neither was easy to use, but then along came COBOL, and everything changed. Source: COBOL turns 60: Why it will outlive […]

Digital law expert José Antonio Castillo thinks this is Facebook acknowledging its platform isn’t free, as users pay when they hand over their data. Source: Facebook quietly ditched the ‘It’s […]

A bug in an obscure legacy Windows protocol can lead to serious real-world privilege-escalation attacks. Source: 20-Year-Old Bug in Legacy Microsoft Code Plagues All Windows Users 20-year-old Windows code contains […]

The Linux Journal shuts down the publication. Magazines are dead now that nobody reads them anymore. Everything is on the Internet now and print is dead. It was a wild […]

This trivially-exploited security allows any user root—er, LOCALSYSTEM—privileges. Source: Severe local 0-Day escalation exploit found in Steam Client Services LOCALSYSTEM privileges give access to the file system and system files. […]

WORLD—There’s good news for the internet: studies show it’s now just a few bans away from finally only having good opinions on it. Much of social media had become dominated […]

Microsoft’s social media team is having a bit of fun with a sizzler video and a callback to Windows 1.0 today, but what’s even stranger is it appears the company […]

Anyone who bought ebooks through the Microsoft Store is in for a rude shock in the coming days. The good news? You can get a refund. The bad news? All […]

Source: U.S. The World War between the haves and have nots continues in Hong Kong where protestors had to be tazed and hosed and tear gassed. In 1997 the UK […]