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After a boom year for new natural gas plants, renewables set to retake the lead
In 2019, more renewable energy will be added to the grid than fossil fuel-based …
New ransomware rakes in $4 million by adopting a “big game hunting” strategy
A recently discovered ransomware group has netted almost $4 million since August, in large part by following a path that’s uncommon in its industry—selectively installing the malicious encryption software on …
Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his $1,998 camera
A man attending this week’s CES show in Las Vegas says that a lidar sensor from startup AEye has permanently damaged the sensor on his $1,998 Sony camera. Earlier this week, roboticist and entrepreneur Jit Ray Chowdhury snapped photos
After broken promise, AT&T says it’ll stop selling phone location data
Mobile carriers are again promising to stop selling your phone location data to other companies—this time for real.
The four major carriers pledged to stop…
A DNS hijacking wave is targeting companies at an almost unprecedented scale
Federal authorities and private researchers are alerting companies to a wave of domain hijacking attacks that’s using relatively novel techniques to compromise targets at an almost unprecedented scale.
The attacks, …
Facebook-executive swatting sends significant police response to his home
A Facebook executive was the target of a swatting hoax that resulted in armed police briefly detaining him and searching his home as they investigated a false report of an …
Musk: Tesla getting “regulatory pushback” on remote-control feature

Enlarge / Elon Musk. (credit: DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images)
Elon Musk’s dream of customers driving their Teslas around parking lots “like a big RC car” has hit a snag, the mogul said on Twitter Thursday. The software for Tesla’s
Fiat Chrysler settles in lawsuit over diesel-emissions cheating

Enlarge / A row of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) Dodge Ram trucks sit on display at a car dealership in Moline, Illinois, on Saturday, July 1, 2017. (credit: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The US Justice Department (DOJ) on