Zelle users are finding out the hard way there’s no fraud protection
Scammers have taken to Zelle, the Venmo alternative backed by U.S. banks, to defraud consumers who believe the service includes the same protections they’ve come to expect from PayPal. A number of customers report having lost hundreds, or even thousands …
Mother serves jail time after baptizing daughter without permission of girl’s father
CHARLOTTE, NC (WCMH) — A North Carolina mother is behind bars after she baptized her daughter without the permission of the girl’s father.
Kendra Stocks has been ordered to spend seven days in jail after a judge found …
Democrats Up, Republicans Down as California Voter Registration Rises
Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced Friday registered voters in California have increased by more than 1.3 million over the past four years, with Democrats and those expressing no party preference growing. The report showed 18,980,481 registered voters in California …
Illinois officer creates app to get nearby police to respond to school shootings
COLUMBIA, Ill. – According to police, most school shootings are over before officers ever arrive on the scene. An Illinois police officer who wants to change that with a smartphone app.
Nate McVicker helped design a smartphone app, called SchoolGuard, …
Special counsel Robert Mueller indicts Russian bot farm for election meddling
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has just handed down a set of indictments, charging 13 Russian citizens and three Russian organizations with interference in the U.S. presidential election in efforts dating back to 2014. The indictment names the Internet Research Agency …
New ‘text bomb’ bug causes Apple devices to crash
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA/WTNH) — Apple devices are getting infected by an issue called a “text bomb” for the second time in 2018.
This time, the iOS 11.2.5 has a major flaw caused by a Unicode symbol, …
Cymer Engineer ‘Walks Away’ with Rich Memories on ‘Millionaire’ Game Show
Carmel Valley’s David Tamayo didn’t win $1 million, but he gave co-workers and his grandparents a priceless moment Friday — watching him on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” The project manager at Rancho Bernardo laser-company Cymer lit the board …
Jefferson County mulls new tax to keep deputies from working elsewhere
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department leadership says it faces dire consequences because experienced, well-trained deputies are calling it quits, one after another.
The problems are salary and benefits.
“We invest a ton of training and money …
Cloudflare is protecting the internet using groovy lava lamps
Cloudflare has a unique way of protecting a huge portion of the world’s internet. They call it their Wall of Entropy; a wall lined with lava lamps that are being filmed with a camera. That data is then converted to …
Shooting suspect was on school rifle team that got NRA grant
(AP) – The troubled teen authorities say killed 17 people at a Florida high school excelled in an air-rifle marksmanship program supported by a grant from the National Rifle Association Foundation, part of a multimillion-dollar effort by the gun group …