Tech Roundup: Cryptojacking, Website Keyloggers & More

[A recurring feature on the latest in Science & Technology.]

• Over 400 popular websites found to record every single keystroke through session replay scripts, Princeton researchers find.
• New research reveals programmatic ad services like AdThink and OnAudience to be exploiting built-in password managers in web browsers by serving invisible login forms to steal autofill information.
• Archive Poster, a Chrome extension with over 100,000 users that makes it easier to reblog or like posts from an other blog's archive, accused of cryptojacking (referring to the surreptitious use of your computing device's CPU power to mine cryptocurrency) by incorporating Coinhive in-browser miner in its source code.
• Online dating service OkCupid becomes the latest company to ditch user name for real names; company defends the move stating "We want you ... to go by who you are, and not be hidden beneath another layer of mystique. Even if that mystique is crucial to you and your dating life."
• NSA Whistleblower and privacy advocate Edward Snowden releases new Android app called Haven that turns your cheap smartphone into a home security device.
• United States Federal Communications Commission repeals net neutrality laws in the country on December 14, potentially paving the way for internet fast lanes.
• Target launches its own mobile payments system called Wallet to compete with rivals like Apple and Android Pay; acquires Shipt for US$ 550 million to boost same day delivery efforts and challenge Amazon.
• Microsoft unveils new Windows PCs that run on Qualcomm chips; rolls out new AI-powered features for Bing search.
• Reddit refreshes its mobile apps for Android and iOS with chat function and new moderation tools.
• BlackBerry to shut down its App Store by December 31, 2019, effectively ceding control to Android and iOS.
• Mozilla faces criticism after it pushes a mysterious add-on for Firefox called "Looking Glass 1.0.3" without user permission that was later found to be a marketing deal with hacker drama Mr. Robot.
• Walmart joins Amazon and Blue Apron to offer meal kits.
• Imgur becomes the latest service to offer its own take on Snapchat Stories called Snacks.
• Snapchat announces new augmented reality platform called Lens Studio; reportedly developing Stories Everywhere to share Stories outside Snapchat as it attempts to fight back Facebook.
• Twitter officially launches Threads, an easy way to post tweetstorms, weeks after it expanded its character limit to 280 characters.
• Storify, a social media story curation service, to shut down May 16, 2018.
• Samsung's next-gen Galaxy S9 smartphone leaks ahead of release; sports thinner bezels, 3.5mm headphone jack and repositions fingerprint sensor under the rear camera.
• Synaptics announces mass production of optical in-display fingerprint sensors; first smartphone with an in-screen fingerprint sensor will come from Vivo as early as next year.
• Oath, Aol's parent, shutters AIM Messenger for good.
• Didi Chuxing, Uber's Chinese rival, unveils plans to enter Mexico next year.