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Due out summer 2019, “Something Like Gravity” follows a transgender boy and a cisgender girl who fall in love.

Overwatch players will already know that Lucio makes in-game references to his own cereal: the support character even has a spray for a box of “Lucio-Oh’s” cereal. Players really liked the joke so they added a voice line. But the story doesn’t end there. At this weekend’s BlizzCon 2018, Blizzard announced something special for all the dedicated Lucio players: a real Lucio-Oh’s cereal that is coming to store shelves soon.

Blizzard is teaming up with Kellogg’s to put a box of Lucio-Oh’s on your breakfast table, bringing the game to life in a delicious and crunchy way. The cereal has loops in Lucio’s green and yellow colors, and is a flavor called “Sonic Vanilla.”

These boxes will also include a “Loot Boost” where players will earn an extra loot box with their next three XP rank-ups. This means that you’ll get six total instead of three. Just be aware that redeeming these Loot Boosts is a bit of a pain. You need to submit a photo of your receipt online. Plus, the cereal has to be purchased between December 3rd, 2018 and December 31st, 2019, and photos must be submitted within 30 days of purchase. Photos have to be uploaded to a special Lucio-Oh’s website – and at some point within the three following days, the Loot Boost will kick in. I say just enjoy the cereal.

You can expect to see boxes of Lucio-Oh’s hitting stores in early December.

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Researchers at Radboud University have found critical security flaws in several popular Crucial and Samsung solid state drives (SSDs), which they say can be easily exploited to recover encrypted data without knowing the password.

The researchers, who detailed their findings in a new paper out Monday, reverse engineered the firmware of several drives to find a “pattern of critical issues” across the device makers.

In the case of one drive, the master password used to decrypt the drive’s data was just an empty string and could be easily exploiting by flipping a single bit in the drive’s memory. Another drive could be unlocked with “any password” by crippling the drive’s password validation checks.

That wouldn’t be much of a problem if an affected drive also used software encryption to secure its data. But the researchers found that in the case of Windows computers, often the default policy for BitLocker’s software-based drive encryption is to trust the drive — and therefore rely entirely on a device’s hardware encryption to protect the data. Yet, as the researchers found, if the hardware encryption is buggy, BitLocker isn’t doing much to prevent data theft.

In other words, users “should not rely solely on hardware encryption as offered by SSDs for confidentiality,” the researchers said.

Alan Woodward, a professor at the University of Surrey, said that the greatest risk to users is the drive’s security “failing silently.”

“You might think you’ve done the right thing enabling BitLocker but then a third-party fault undermines your security, but you never know and never would know,” he said.

Matthew Green, a cryptography professor at Johns Hopkins, described the BitLocker flaw in a tweet as “like jumping out of a plane with an umbrella instead of a parachute.”

The researchers said that their findings are not yet finalized — pending a peer review. But the research was made public after disclosing the bugs to the drive makers in April.

Crucial’s MX100, MX200 and MX300 drives, Samsung’s T3 and T5 USB external disks and Samsung 840 EVO and 850 EVO internal hard disks are known to be affected, but the researchers warned that many other drives may also be at risk.

The researchers criticized the device makers’ proprietary and closed-source cryptography that they said — and proved — is “often shown to be much weaker in practice” than their open-source and auditable cryptographic libraries. “Manufacturers that take security seriously should publish their crypto schemes and corresponding code so that security claims can be independently verified,” they wrote.

The researchers recommend using software-based encryption, like the open-source software VeraCrypt.

In an advisory, Samsung also recommended that users install encryption software to prevent any “potential breach of self-encrypting SSDs.” Crucial’s owner Micron is said to have a fix on the way, according to an advisory by the Netherlands’ National Cyber Security Center, but did not say when.

Micron did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Point the red dot of a laser anywhere near a dog, and they’ll obsessively chase and stalk it for hours. So researchers at Tohoku University took that idea one step further, creating a wearable vest covered in flashlights that create targeted dots of light to direct a pup’s movements—essentially creating a remote…

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