Alabama’s hands-free driving law now in full effect

According to Drive Safe Alabama, the risk of getting in a wreck is increased by 23 times while you are texting.

The Basics of DNS: Understanding the Internet’s Directory Service – DEV Community

By translating domain names into IP addresses, DNS enables seamless browsing and communication.

Hackers are hijacking Windows Search to hit victims with malware | TechRadar

The attack starts with a phishing email pretending to be an invoice, or something similar. It carries a .ZIP archive of an HTML file, and thus successfully bypasses antivirus and email security programs that overlook compressed contents.

Researchers wonder what if you just put a robot in the driver’s seat instead of automating the car?

In this new effort, the research team wondered if it might not be easier and cheaper simply to build a robot that can be taught how to drive a car and put it in the driver’s seat of a normal vehicle.

Voyager 1 Is Back! NASA Spacecraft Safely Resumes All Science Observations | Scientific American

After more than six months of long-distance troubleshooting—Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth, and any signal takes more than 22.5 hours to travel from our planet to the spacecraft—mission personnel have finally coaxed Voyager 1 to gather and send home data with all its remaining science instruments, according to a NASA statement.

VLC Media Player Vulnerabilities Allow Remote Code Execution

This vulnerability could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on the affected device due to exceeded storage space or arbitrary data.

IT and Cybersecurity Jobs are Converging: What It Means for Tech Pros | Dice.com Career Advice

In May, the technology career website ClearanceJobs published its list of the top 10 paying jobs in technology, which showed annual salaries ranging from $110,000 to $170,000 for many jobs… with some positions commanding as much as $300,000 for those with superior A.I. skills.

Hacking Made Easy: A Beginner’s Guide to Penetration Testing with Kali Linux | Linux Journal

Kali Linux is an open source, Debian-based Linux distribution developed and maintained by Offensive Security. It is designed for digital forensics and penetration testing and comes pre-installed with a vast array of security tools.

My family was scammed out of a $15K Carnival Cruise — here’s how I’m fighting to get it back

https://nypost.com/2024/06/13/lifestyle/my-family-was-scammed-out-of-a-15k-carnival-cruise-heres-how-im-fighting-to-get-it-back/

Wells Fargo fires more than a dozen employees for faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard simulation | Tom’s Hardware

According to the disclosures, the terminated employees worked in Wells Fargo’s wealth- and investment-management unit. They used special but easily obtainable tools to create the impression the staffers were busily working.