One of the world’s biggest mega-malls is worryingly empty

On a recent Thursday afternoon, the Haikou International Duty Free City, a sprawling mega-mall on China’s southern island province of Hainan, is worryingly empty. A few families meander through the cavernous building. Without customers to attend to, sales attendants chat to pass the time. Other than your correspondent, a burger-and-shake joint was completely devoid of…

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This smartwatch trick could steal government secrets from ultra-secure computers without touching the internet or raising any alarms

Smartwatches may soon be the newest tool for breaching even the most secure computer Ultrasonic signals are invisible to us but may carry secrets out of air-gapped machines SmartAttack depends on rare conditions, but its possibility proves no system is ever completely safe A new research paper proposes an unusual method of data exfiltration from…

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