In the new July/August issue of 7x7 Magazine, I have list called The Big Drink: 50 Cocktails to Try Before You Die.

You may remember that I created this list for the same magazine two years ago. When I went to update it, I kept just 9 cocktails from the previous list, though I did repeat many of the same cocktail bars. 

But palates change over time, and I chose many new cocktails at old spots reflecting newly-popular spirits like mezcal, and added a few more fun drinks like the Latch-Key Tea at Butter and a Gin and Tonic at Empress of China, which is more about the view than the drink itself.

I also looked further afield and included more outer-neighborhood bars like Holy Water in Bernal, the Outerlands in the Sunset, and the Third Rail in Dogpatch, reflecting the demographic changes of the city.

 The list online is in slideshow format, which is a bit annoying to click 50 times. But you can find it in the print magazine and they have created a special app that's far easier to read - it has both list and map formats. (Search the iTunes store for "The Big Drink".)

I hope y'all enjoy it, and have a good time exploring the list. It was a lot of thirsty work on my end. 

Determined not to let America win the transatlantic remake race, the BBC—which recently relaunched Teletubbies, only to be answered by a revived Powerpuff Girls—has announced that it is also bringing back Danger Mouse. The network has ordered an unspecified number of new episodes of the series about a dashing, daredevil rodent secret agent and his adventures against the same 10 or so backdrops, usually in the very easy-to-draw North Pole.

However, this time, as with the newly CGIed Teletubbies, things will look a little different than they did during the show’s 1981 to 1992 run. While Danger Mouse and his trusty, mostly useless assistant Penfold will return—albeit played by new voice actors—alongside familiar enemies such as Count Duckula, he’ll also have certain 21st-century updates. These include a technologically enhanced “iPatch” in place of his signature eye patch, some “state-of-the-art wizardry” in his headquarters, and ...

One of the affected Synology devices.

Synology

A hacker generated digital coins worth more than $620,000 by hijacking a popular type of Internet-connected storage device from Synology, security researchers said.

The incident, which was documented in a research report published Tuesday by Dell SecureWorks, is only the latest hack to steal other people's computing resources to perform the computationally intense process of digital currency mining. The cryptographic operations behind the process often draw large amounts of power and produce lots of heat. People looking to acquire a large war chest of digital coins typically must pour large amounts of money and effort into the endeavor. One way malicious actors get by this requirement is by compromising large numbers of devices operated by other people. The devices then perform the work at the expense of the unsuspecting end users and pass on the proceeds to the attacker.

According to researchers from SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit, the attackers exploited four separate vulnerabilities contained in the software of Synology network-attached storage boxes. The vulnerabilities were documented in September and fixed in February by Synology. By then, large numbers of people began complaining their Synology devices were running sluggishly and extremely hot. It turns out that at least some of them were running software that mined large sums of the Dogecoin cryptocurrency.

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country music, or as I like to call it, “farm emo”

AT&T has begun mailing out letters to customers affected by a data breach that allowed employees of a “service provider” to access customer account information, including customers’ dates of birth and Social Security numbers. The data was exposed in April through a system used to obtain unlocking codes for used AT&T phones for resale, according to the letter, which has been posted by California’s Office of the Attorney General.

“We recently determined that employees of one of our service providers violated our strict privacy and security guidelines by accessing your account without authorization between April 9 and 21, 2014, and while doing so would have been able to view your social security number and possibly your date of birth…," notes the letter. "Additionally, while in your account, these individuals would also have been able to view your Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI).”

CPNI data includes the information usually visible on a phone bill—including call activity metadata.