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Submission + - Nichelle Nichols, Uhura from Star Trek, Hospitalized with Stroke (variety.com)

Submitted by fightinfilipino
fightinfilipino writes:

“Last night while at her home in L.A., Nichelle Nichols suffered from a mild stroke,” McGinnis wrote. “She is currently undergoing testing to determine how severe the stroke was. Please keep her in your thoughts.” Nichols, 82, appeared in the original “Star Trek” TV series, which ran from 1966-1969, as well as the “Star Trek” movies. She also played the role of Nana Dawson in the ABC show “Heroes,” and voiced characters in the TV series “Futurama,” “Gargoyles” and “Spider-Man.”

Comment Re:The Real Issue...Not indexed for inflation. (Score 1) 510

Over time this creates and increasing burden on businesses and banks as they are required to report transactions of smaller and smaller value.

If it's such a big fuss (read cost) then the banking lobby would've moved to have it adjusted to inflation. What's in it for them by not having the said adjustment done?

Submission + - PayPal will robo-text/call you with no opt-out starting July 1 (yahoo.com)

Submitted by OutOnARock
OutOnARock writes: When eBay cuts PayPal loose this summer, users of the new digital money giant will find they've agreed to new terms of service that take effect July 1. Those terms include PayPal giving itself the right to robocall or robo-text members at any phone number the firm can find, for just about any reason — from debt collecting to advertisements to opinion polling.

The fine print also says PayPal can pass along the same rights to its affiliates. Here's the language, in black and white, from the company's website:

You consent to receive autodialed or prerecorded calls and text messages from PayPal at any telephone number that you have provided us or that we have otherwise obtained . . . . (PayPal) may share your phone numbers with our Affiliates or with our service providers, such as billing or collections companies, who we have contracted with to assist us in pursuing our rights.

If I can only use PayPal on eBay, it'll probably mean an end of eBay for me, what about you?

Submission + - Hollywood films reimaged into 8bit video games (bbc.com) 1

Submitted by Lead Butthead
Lead Butthead writes: A team which recreates popular movies as 8-bit video games is attracting millions of views on YouTube.

David Dutton from California makes the "old school" arcade-style films for film collective Cinefix.

His four minute version of 2001 Japanese anime movie Spirited Away has attracted nearly 1m views since it was uploaded last month.

Other films to get an "old school" makeover include Titanic, The Avengers and Frozen.

Submission + - OrderAhead steals restaurant identities and Google listings (geekwire.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Restaurant delivery service OrderAhead apparently is impersonating restaurants, including claiming Google Maps and Gooogle Business listings without knowledge or consent of restaurant owners.

Submission + - China-Based Hackers Used Microsoft's TechNet for Attacks (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: The China-based hacking group, which security vendor FireEye calls APT17, created accounts on TechNet and then left comments on certain pages. Those comments contained the name of an encoded domain, which computers infected by the group’s malware were instructed to contact. The encoded domain then referred the victim’s computer to a command-and-control server that was part of APT17’s infrastructure, said Bryce Boland, FireEye’s chief technology officer for Asia-Pacific.

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