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• This PC monitor hack can manipulate pixels for malicious effect

  06-08-2016 16:39
  
  Don’t believe everything you see. It turns out even your computer monitor can be hacked.On Friday, researchers at DEF CON presented a way to manipulate the tiny pixels found on a computer display.Ang Cui and Jatin Kataria of Red Balloon Security were curious how Dell monitors worked and ended up reverse-engineering one.They picked apart a Dell U2410 monitor and found that the display controller inside can be used to change and log the pixels across the screen.During their DEF CON pres
  
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• What's in your food? Tech will tell!

  06-08-2016 13:00
  
  People are getting more interested in what they're eating, but reading a food label will tell you only so much. Some foods -- fresh fruits and vegetables, for example -- don't have ingredient labels.
  In a perfect world, food labels would tell you unambiguously and transparently what's inside the package -- what you're really eating. Unfortunately, today's food labels tell only part of the story.
  The truth is that there are some ingredients that food makers are not required to list on labels. In
  
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