Hackers dump stolen Ashley Madison data onto the Dark Web

Impact Team, the hacking collective that recently made headlines by absconding with the personal data of some 37 million customers, has made good on previous threats to release the information. On Tuesday, the group dumped 9.7 GB worth of data onto the Dark Web, a semi-anonymized corner of the Internet only accessible using a special Tor browser and Onion router. The data set appears to include account details and log-ins as well as credit card and payment transaction details. The hackers reportedly pulled the data from Ashley Madison’s servers despite the company offering a $19 “Full Delete” service that supposedly scrubbed former users’ data from the site.

“Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men,” Impact Team wrote in a statement Tuesday. “We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data … Keep in mind the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles. See ashley madison fake profile lawsuit; 90-95 of actual users are male. Chances are your man signed up on the world’s biggest affair site, but never had one. He just tried to. If that distinction matters.”

The hackers also has some condescending advice to users whose information has been leaked. “Find yourself in here? It was ALM that failed you and lied to you. Prosecute them and claim damages. Then move on with your life. Learn your lesson and make amends. Embarrassing now, but you’ll get over it.” See? The Impact Team isn’t the bunch of asshats you think they are — cowards who will willingly disrupt the financial and personal lives of 37 million people just to make a point about a website they don’t like — the situation is actually all just one big teachable moment.

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Aftershokz adds a titanium twist to its bone-conducting headphones

Like many companies these days, Aftershokz just launched an Indiegogo campaign to support its latest offering, a set of bone conduction headphones called Trekz Titanium. If you’re unfamiliar with the tech, it works by sending audio as vibrations through the cheekbone to the inner ear, bypassing the ear drum. Having wireless headphones that don’t block your ears is especially useful for activities like biking, where situational awareness is key, but you still want to enjoy some tunes. These are the newest in the company’s line and come right on the heels of an announced update for the existing $100 Bluez2 model with audio-enhancing PremiumPitch+ technology. The Trekz Titanium offer a nearly identical feature set including Bluetooth, hands-free calls, IP55 dust/sweat resistance and a six-hour listening time. However, the rigid plastic of the Bluez2 was traded for a more flexible exterior with a titanium frame inside making them more resilient and easier to pack away. Many of the early-bird deals have already sold out, but if you’re quick, you can still reserve a special edition set for the full price of $129. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait for the retail release in January 2016. Slideshow-313577

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Tesla starts testing its autopilot features with Model S drivers

As promised, Tesla’s latest autopilot features are out in the wild. A handful of Model S drivers are now testing the electric car’s upcoming semi-autonomous tech, including highway autosteer (which tackles lanes, passing and vehicle distance) and automatic parallel parking. Ideally, these vehicular pioneers will find the last remaining quirks in both the autopilot’s behavior and its interface — those edge cases that tend to creep up only in the real world.

It’s not clear exactly when everyday Model S owners will get their turn, but it’s important to temper expectations. The technology isn’t really a peek at a future dominated by self-driving cars… at least, not yet. You’ll still need to flick the turn signal to pass cars (to indicate intent and absolve Tesla of liability), and the additions won’t help much when you’re stuck in city traffic. Think of this more as a step up from the lane and braking assists that you see on other cars. They’ll eliminate more of the monotony of driving, but there’s no point at which you can completely glaze over.

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German aerospace agency wants hypersonic flights by the 2030s

Germany’s aerospace agency, the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), is reviving a decade-old plan to develop hypersonic passenger flights aboard suborbital space planes. This rocket-propelled vehicle, dubbed the SpaceLiner, could carry up to 100 passengers and make the trek between Europe and Australia in under 90 minutes. This isn’t the first time the DLR has hinted at making such a space plane, but now the company is ready to make the SpaceLiner a reality within the next two decades, as project lead Martin Sippel recently explained to Aviation Week.

The vehicle would operate much like the old Space Shuttle — had the old Shuttle been equipped with an ejectable crew cabin capable of flight independent of the rest of the vehicle. The plane part would launch vertically aboard a reusable rocket engine, detach once its at cruising altitude, then glide back through the atmosphere at Mach 20 (that’s 4.3 miles per second or Koro Sensei’s maximum speed) and land like a regular plane. The rocket engine, conversely, would be snagged by a tow aircraft in midair before landing autonomously.

“The point-to-point passenger market already exists and is growing,” Sippel told the publication. “We have several hundred million passengers traveling intercontinental distances each year. But even if the share will only be 0.2 percent… from a space perspective that’s a potentially huge impact.” And not only could the SpaceLiner be used to ferry the uber-rich, it could just as easily be adapted to soft-launch satellites into orbit. “We could increase hundredfold the number of launches and, as it is a reusable vehicle designed for between 150 and 300 flights, you have serial production of engines,” Sippel continued, “If you have 11 engines per vehicle then you would build 2,000 engines per year or so. That’s a huge production run, and that was the motivation.”

Don’t expect to see this in the skies above any time soon. The project carries an estimated $33 billion price tag and the first hardware likely won’t be ready until at least 2030. Still, with the efforts of companies like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, not to mention defense contractors like Boeing and Lockheed Martin, humans are going to be cruising around the mesosphere before you know it.

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