A short-term shutdown probably won't hurt crypto's efforts in D.C. much. A long-lasting one? That's less clear.

Western Digital has released firmware updates for multiple My Cloud NAS models to patch a critical-severity vulnerability that could be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary system commands.

Digital proof of personhood offers a path out of the arms race between bots and CAPTCHAs, argues Daniel Brunsdon of human.tech.