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Researchers detail fundamental cryptography flaws in MEGA's end-to-end encryption scheme that could let the cloud storage service decipher stored files
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Orca Security: Microsoft took five months and three patches to fix a critical RCE vulnerability in Azure; critics say the slow response put customers at risk
Researchers find a vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs that could let hackers steal encryption keys via a side channel attack on power conservation feature DVFS
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The $100K+ forgery scandal that’s roiling PC game collecting
iOS 16 requires an iPhone 8 or later, after iOS 15 supported the iPhone 6S and later, and drops support for the first-gen iPhone SE and seventh-gen iPod Touch
Apple debuts macOS 13 Ventura with the Stage Manager multitasking interface to manage app windows, the ability to share groups of tabs in Safari, and more
Have an old iPad lying around? You might be able to make it run Linux soon
A report highlights security risks in Meeting Owl, a videoconference device used by governments and colleges, including exposure of its Pro users' data
Researchers told Microsoft on April 12 of an RCE Windows exploit being used in the wild; Microsoft now calls it a critical flaw, but it's still unpatched
The saga of Apple’s troubled mixed reality headset
Sliding to mild? Nope—omicron BA.2 caused worse COVID symptoms than BA.1 | Ars Technica
A researcher says Australia's New South Wales digital driver's license is easy to forge due to deficient encryption, data validation flaws, and other issues
How long mined metals circulate before being lost
HP refreshes Spectre x360 laptop with Intel 12th-gen and Ryzen 5000 chips, Intel Arc GPU, beefed up webcam, and a quieter fan, starting at $1,650
The CISA orders US federal civilian agencies to patch or remove VMware products affected by a critical RCE vulnerability that hackers are actively exploiting
F5 disclosed and patched an actively exploited critical bug last week in its BIG-IP products that act as load balancers and firewalls within enterprise networks
How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in 1 stroke | Ars Technica
Stung by 3 court losses, ISPs stop fighting California net neutrality law
Twitter warns of possible employee exodus before Musk completes purchase
Botnet that hid for 18 months
European game publisher Embracer buys Square Enix's three Western game studios, with many game series including Tomb Raider and Dues Ex, and their IP, for $300M
Oracle patches a critical bug in Java 15 and above, which lets attackers forge TLS certificates and signatures, two-factor authentication messages, and more
Researchers detail newly patched RCE flaw in a widely used audio codec on Android devices with Qualcomm and MediaTek chips; Apple open sourced the codec in 2011
ISPs can’t find any judges who will block California net neutrality law
Your iOS app may still be covertly tracking you, despite what Apple says
ISPs can’t find any judges who will block California net neutrality law
Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across the web
BCI lets completely “locked-in” man communicate
Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintendo, experts suggest
Tesla must pay ex-worker $15M for “disturbing” racist abuse, judge rules
Wikipedia editors vote 232 to 94 to request the Wikimedia Foundation stop accepting crypto donations; the foundation is not legally bound by the proposal
Researchers home in on possible “day zero” for Antikythera mechanism
“Can it run Doom” will never be the same, thanks to new ray-tracing mod
Researchers: an allegedly Russia-tied wiper malware, AcidRain, which shares similarities with the malware VPNFilter, was behind the attack on Viasat in February
FTC sues Intuit in bid to stop “deceptive” ads that claim TurboTax is free
Google plans to remove the Movies & TV section from the Play Store in May 2022, and directs users to buy, rent, or watch movies and shows from the Google TV app
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Sophos details how scammers are abusing Apple's TestFlight and the Web Clips feature to trick iOS users into installing fake cryptocurrency apps
A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time | Ars Technica
The website of Wordle Archive, which let users play previous Wordle puzzles, says it has been taken down at the request of The New York Times
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Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants – lawsuit
Amazon lied about using seller data, lawmakers say, urging DOJ investigation
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