What is USB4? Differences from Thunderbolt 4, older USB versions explained | Ars Technica Pinboard · 3 months ago
Cops wanted to keep mass surveillance app secret; privacy advocates refused Hacker News · 3 months ago
Benedictine monk wrote earliest known reference to ball lightning in England Hacker News · 3 months ago
Tesla’s ban on pro-union shirts is illegal and must be rescinded, NLRB rules Hacker News · 3 months ago
Android 13 review: a small update, but 2022's second after March's tablet-focused 12L update, finally brings a task manager, notification permissions, and more Techmeme · 3 months ago
Nvidia says it is dealing with excess inventory of RTX 3000-series GPUs ahead of its next-gen RTX 4000 series release, signaling that the GPU shortage is over Techmeme · 3 months ago
Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational AWK code | Ars Technica Pinboard · 3 months ago
Scanning students’ homes during remote testing is unconstitutional, judge says | Ars Technica Pinboard · 3 months ago
iOS, iPadOS, and macOS receive updates to fix kernel and WebKit security flaws that allowed arbitrary code execution and were reportedly being exploited Techmeme · 3 months ago
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes Hacker News · 4 months ago
Cloudflare says its employees fell victim to an SMS phishing scam but the company's use of hardware MFA keys stopped hackers from accessing its internal network Techmeme · 4 months ago
Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot Hacker News · 4 months ago
Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour | Ars Technica Pinboard · 4 months ago
Apple’s Virtualization framework is a great, free way to test new macOS betas | Ars Technica Pinboard · 4 months ago
Kaspersky researchers have unpacked a malicious UEFI-based rootkit used in the wild since 2016 which can survive an OS reinstall and a hard drive replacement Techmeme · 4 months ago
FCC chair asks carriers to explain how they use geolocation data, as Congress debates a law that may preempt the FCC from regulating carriers' privacy practices Techmeme · 4 months ago
FCC Chair proposes new US broadband standard of 100Mbps up and 20Mbps down; the proposal would need to pass a vote in the currently deadlocked FCC Techmeme · 4 months ago
Chainalysis: crypto flowing into mixer services hit a 30-day moving average of $51.8M in April, a record high; Russia's Hydra Market accounted for 50% of funds Techmeme · 4 months ago
EU lawmakers slam “radical proposal“ to let ISPs demand new fees from websites Hacker News · 5 months ago
Microsoft says a phishing campaign targeted 10K+ organizations since September 2021 by hijacking Office 365's authentication process even on accounts with MFA Techmeme · 5 months ago
Build, gather, brawl, repeat: The history of real-time strategy games (2017) Hacker News · 5 months ago
Research details sophisticated malware targeting a wide range of routers then taking over Windows, Linux, and Mac devices, in N. America and Europe for ~2 years Techmeme · 5 months ago
Researchers detail fundamental cryptography flaws in MEGA's end-to-end encryption scheme that could let the cloud storage service decipher stored files Techmeme · 5 months ago
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 Techmeme · 5 months ago
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 Techmeme · 6 months ago
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 Techmeme · 6 months ago
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 Techmeme · 6 months ago
Have an old iPad lying around? You might be able to make it run Linux soon Hacker News · 6 months ago
A report highlights security risks in Meeting Owl, a videoconference device used by governments and colleges, including exposure of its Pro users' data Techmeme · 6 months ago
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 Techmeme · 6 months ago
Sliding to mild? Nope—omicron BA.2 caused worse COVID symptoms than BA.1 | Ars Technica Pinboard · 6 months ago