President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday implementing new policies aimed to improve national cybersecurity. The executive order comes in the wake of a number of recent cybersecurity catastrophes, such as last week’s ransomware attack that took down the Colonial Pipeline, the Microsoft Exchange server vulnerabilities that may have affected north of 60,000 organizations, and the SolarWinds hack …
Biden signs executive order aiming to prevent future cybersecurity disasters, Jay Peters
Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday implementing new policies aimed to improve national cybersecurity. The executive order comes in the wake of a number of recent cybersecurity catastrophes, such as last week’s ransomware attack that took down the Colonial Pipeline, the Microsoft Exchange server vulnerabilities that may have affected north of 60,000 …
Target will stop selling Pokemon cards in stores,
Target has decided that it’s had enough: the company has officially confirmed to Bleeding Cool that it will halt the sales of Pokemon cards throughout the US, starting Friday, May 14th. The retailer cities “an abundance of caution” for the safety of both guests and store employees and notes that it will still be selling the cards on its site. …
Target will stop selling Pokémon cards in stores, Mitchell Clark
Target has decided that it’s had enough: the company has officially confirmed to Bleeding Cool that it will halt the sales of Pokémon cards throughout the US, starting Friday, May 14th. The retailer cities “an abundance of caution” for the safety of both guests and store employees and notes that it will still be selling the cards on its site. …
NASA rocket launch may spark visible light show over US East Coast and Bermuda tonight, ,
Update for 6:45 p.m. EDT, May 12: NASA has postponed today’s planned launch of the Kinet-X sounding rocket mission “to provide time for inspection of the rocket after the vehicle came in contact with a launcher support during today’s preparations,” agency officials announced via Twitter. The next launch opportunity will come on Friday (May 14) at 8:02 p.m. EDT (0002 …
Watch an innovative robotic gripper snatch a single grain of sand – CNET,
If it’s true time slips through our fingers like sand, these soft robot grippers might be able to stop the clock. GIF by CNET The grippers cushion objects as they grasp, so they can handle fragile, irregularly configured and slippery items. They can also be scaled up or down to conform to a range of shapes and sizes, allowing them …
Tesla stops taking Bitcoin for vehicle purchases, citing environmental harm,
Tesla has stopped accepting bitcoin as payment for its cars out of concern that it will contribute to greater consumption of fossil fuels, according to a statement CEO Elon Musk tweeted Wednesday. Tesla had only just started accepting bitcoin in late March. Musk also said that Tesla will no longer sell any more of the $1.5 billion stash of bitcoin …
Tesla stops taking Bitcoin for vehicle purchases, citing environmental harm, Sean O’Kane
Image: Tesla Tesla has stopped accepting bitcoin as payment for its cars out of concern that it will contribute to greater consumption of fossil fuels, according to a statement CEO Elon Musk tweeted Wednesday. Tesla had only just started accepting bitcoin in late March. Musk also said that Tesla will no longer sell any more of the $1.5 billion stash …
Tesla stops taking Bitcoin for vehicle purchases, citing environmental harm,
Tesla has stopped accepting bitcoin as payment for its cars out of concern that it will contribute to greater consumption of fossil fuels, according to a statement CEO Elon Musk tweeted Wednesday. Tesla had only just started accepting bitcoin in late March. Musk also said that Tesla will no longer sell any more of the $1.5 billion stash of bitcoin …
China’s Yutu 2 rover about to ‘wake up’ on the far side of the moon, ,
China’s plucky Yutu 2 rover is about to wake up and continue to explore the far side of the moon as the nation works to land a rover on Mars this May.