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2021-01-08 11:45:55 |
Bummed about new Google Photos storage limits? Amazon Photos says “hi” (lien direct) |
This surprisingly good photo service has flown mostly under the radar since 2014. |
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2021-01-08 01:24:30 |
Anthony Mackie plays an android supersoldier in Outside the Wire trailer (lien direct) |
Mikael Håfström directs this latest Netflix foray into action feature films. |
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2021-01-07 22:59:44 |
Elon Musk is the world\'s richest person (lien direct) |
Musk will earn even more Tesla stock if he hits revenue and profit targets. |
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2021-01-07 21:56:44 |
SpaceX to begin its 2021 launch campaign Thursday evening (lien direct) |
This launch continues the trend of SpaceX using increasingly experienced first stages. |
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2021-01-07 21:44:10 |
Samsung backtracks on $1,000 Chromebooks with cheaper Galaxy Chromebook 2 (lien direct) |
The price of Samsung's flagship Chromebook has been nearly cut in half. It's $549. |
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2021-01-07 21:19:00 |
Insurrectionists\' social media presence gives feds an easy way to ID them (lien direct) |
You don't need fancy technology to identify folks who livestream their crimes.
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2021-01-07 19:00:07 |
Four-point-whoa: the 2021 Porsche 718 Boxster GTS (lien direct) |
The two-seat sports car gets the 4.0L engine from the Boxster Spyder. |
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2021-01-07 17:21:15 |
At risk of extinction, black-footed ferrets get vaccinated for COVID-19 (lien direct) |
Ferrets, minks, and other Mustelinae species are susceptible to COVID-19. |
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2021-01-07 02:27:45 |
DoJ says SolarWinds hackers breached its Office 365 system and read email (lien direct) |
Department discovered the intrusion 9 days after SolarWinds hack came to light. |
Hack
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2021-01-06 21:56:24 |
Linus Torvalds blames Intel for lack of ECC RAM in consumer PCs (lien direct) |
Artificial market segmentation may have suppressed demand for ECC in desktops. |
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2021-01-06 21:45:45 |
Pro-Trump reporter gloats over access to fleeing Hill staffer\'s computer (lien direct) |
A violent mob invaded the US capitol building at the behest of Donald Trump. |
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2021-01-06 21:35:39 |
Twitter appends “violence” warning to Trump tweets as mob storms Capitol (lien direct) |
Twitter so far limited the spread of one Trump post-after violence already began. |
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2021-01-06 18:33:17 |
Ars readers gave a record $58,000 in 2020 Charity Drive (lien direct) |
Readers have given nearly $400,000 to the EFF and Child's Play since 2008. |
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★★★★
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2021-01-06 18:28:08 |
Amazon promises $2B for affordable housing projects near its corporate offices (lien direct) |
Arlington and Seattle are really expensive, and Amazon's not making 'em any cheaper. |
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★★★★
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2021-01-06 16:50:36 |
Upcoming Apple privacy update has developers desperately seeking dodges (lien direct) |
Developers look at invasive user tracking techniques before advertising rule change. |
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★★★
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2021-01-06 16:46:02 |
Study finds we\'re already committed to more global warming-sort of (lien direct) |
Accounting for spatial patterns ups the estimate, but details are crucial. |
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★★★★★
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2021-01-06 16:36:48 |
“Shkreli Award” goes to Moderna for “blatantly greedy” COVID vaccine prices (lien direct) |
Moderna used $1 billion from feds to develop vaccine, then set some of the highest prices. |
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2021-01-06 04:06:12 |
Bucking Trump, NSA and FBI say Russia was “likely” behind SolarWinds hack (lien direct) |
Trump has downplayed the mass compromise and Russia's involvement. Underlings disagree. |
Hack
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2021-01-05 22:33:31 |
Court says Uber can\'t hold users to terms they probably didn\'t read (lien direct) |
Adding a link to a registration page isn't good enough, court says. |
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2021-01-05 21:56:15 |
This P2P car-sharing company has a plan to boost Black entrepreneurship (lien direct) |
Turo partners with Kiva to provide interest-free loans to an underserved community. |
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2021-01-05 21:40:31 |
Telegram feature exposes your precise address to hackers (lien direct) |
Messenger maker has expressed no plans to fix location disclosure flaw. |
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2021-01-05 21:21:37 |
COVID-19 contact-tracing data is fair game for police, Singapore says (lien direct) |
Similar privacy concerns are part of the uphill battle for contact tracers in the US. |
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2021-01-05 21:05:05 |
Birds of a feather flock together, but patterns change with the mission (lien direct) |
Autonomous robot swarms with interaction rules for different tasks might be possible |
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2021-01-05 20:20:03 |
OnePlus brings a 90Hz smartphone to the US for $180 (lien direct) |
It's a cheap 90Hz phone, but sadly you'll have to deal with a terrible update plan. |
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2021-01-05 20:17:36 |
Waymo CEO: Building safe driverless cars is harder than rocket science (lien direct) |
Company raised $3.2 billion last year, but CEO says the challenge remains huge.
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2021-01-05 19:47:50 |
DOSBox Pure for RetroArch aims to simplify classic MS-DOS gaming (lien direct) |
Integration with Retroarch is great for Retroarch users, confusing for others. |
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2021-01-05 19:10:15 |
Comcast data cap blasted by lawmakers as it expands into 12 more states (lien direct) |
Data cap harms poor people and isn't needed to manage network, Mass. reps say. |
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2021-01-05 19:01:18 |
Saving video gaming\'s source code treasures before it\'s too late (lien direct) |
Over 90 percent of pre-2000 gaming source code may already be gone. |
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2021-01-05 16:05:46 |
Researchers make their own enzyme pathway to get CO₂ out of the air (lien direct) |
Pulling CO₂ out of the atmosphere using life is slow. But we could make it faster. |
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2021-01-05 15:00:32 |
Cryptocurrency stealer for Windows, macOS, and Linux went undetected for a year (lien direct) |
ElectroRAT was written from scratch and was likely installed by thousands. |
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2019-11-15 14:00:14 |
What the newly released Checkra1n jailbreak means for iDevice security (lien direct) |
There are reasons to embrace it. There are reasons to be wary of it. Here's the breakdown. |
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2019-10-23 20:05:38 |
Republicans storm ultra-secure “SCIF,” some with cell phones blazing (lien direct) |
Lawmakers flout strict rules designed to prevent eavesdropping by adversaries. |
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2019-09-30 22:57:31 |
ISPs worry a new Chrome feature will stop them from spying on you (lien direct) |
DNS over HTTPS will make it harder for ISPs to monitor or modify DNS queries. |
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2019-09-14 12:15:13 |
(Déjà vu) New clues show how Russia\'s grid hackers aimed for physical destruction (lien direct) |
2016 Russian cyberattack on Ukraine intended to cause far more damage than it did. |
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2019-09-05 13:00:00 |
600,000 GPS trackers for people and pets are using 123456 as a password (lien direct) |
A lack of encryption and easily enumerated IDs open users to a host of creepy attacks. |
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2019-08-27 19:15:00 |
Google Play app with 100 million downloads executed secret payloads (lien direct) |
The sad, impractical truth about Android app security in 2019. |
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2019-08-07 18:16:01 |
Self-driving car service open sources new tool for securing firmware (lien direct) |
FwAnalyzer provides continuous automated analysis of firmware images. |
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2019-07-23 19:28:01 |
Judge allows suit against AT&T after $24 million cryptocurrency theft (lien direct) |
It's usually not possible to reverse fraudulent cryptocurrency transactions. |
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2019-07-23 18:55:00 |
Tech firms “can and must” put backdoors in encryption, AG Barr says (lien direct) |
He's tired of "dogmatic announcements that lawful access simply cannot be done." |
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2019-07-10 23:50:05 |
Silent Mac update nukes dangerous webserver installed by Zoom (lien direct) |
Fix also requires users to confirm they want to join a Zoom conference. |
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2019-06-25 22:37:02 |
Microsoft OneDrive gets a more secure Personal Vault, plus additional storage options (lien direct) |
Microsoft is adding a protected section to its cloud storage. |
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2019-06-06 19:16:00 |
The clever cryptography behind Apple\'s “Find My” feature (lien direct) |
You can track down your stolen MacBook, but no one else can-not even Apple. |
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2019-05-21 20:50:02 |
Windows 10 May 2019 Update now rolling out to everyone… slowly (lien direct) |
Unless you explicitly want it installed, you probably won't get this update. |
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2019-05-18 11:45:02 |
33 Linksys router models leak full historic record of every device ever connected (lien direct) |
Hard-to-fix flaw cause >25,000 routers to leak >756,000 unique MAC addresses. |
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2019-05-15 10:00:03 |
The radio-navigation planes use to land safely is insecure and can be hacked (lien direct) |
Radios that sell for $600 can spoof signals planes use to find runways. |
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2019-05-14 18:10:05 |
New speculative execution bug leaks data from Intel chips\' internal buffers (lien direct) |
Intel-specific vulnerability was found by researchers both inside and outside the company. |
Vulnerability
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2019-04-30 18:37:00 |
Bloomberg alleges Huawei routers and network gear are backdoored (lien direct) |
Details are scarce, but the "backdoor" appears to be benign. |
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2019-04-25 17:46:00 |
Password1, Password2, Password3 no more: Microsoft drops password expiration rec (lien direct) |
For years, Microsoft's baseline security policy has expired passwords after 60 days. |
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2019-04-19 16:26:05 |
McAfee joins Sophos, Avira, Avast-the latest Windows update breaks them all (lien direct) |
A range of fixes and workarounds have been published. |
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2019-04-15 15:14:01 |
Hackers could read non-corporate Outlook.com, Hotmail for six months (lien direct) |
Hackers and Microsoft seem to disagree on key details of the hack. |
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