[Zak Kemble] likes to build things, and for several years has been pining over various Raspberry Pi products with an eye on putting them into service as a router. Sadly, none of them so far provided what he was looking for with regard to the raw throughput of the Gigabit Ethernet ports. His hopes were
Read MoreDan Goodin / Ars Technica: 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 — Flaw could be exploited with malicious audio file. — Security researchers said they uncovered a vulnerability …
Read MoreReuters: China-based Q&A service Zhihu closed down 23.6% in its Hong Kong trading debut, after raising $106M in a secondary listing: Zhihu faces a potential US delisting — Question and answer website Zhihu Inc’s (2390.HK) shares ended down 23.6% on Friday in Hong Kong, making it one of the worst ever secondary listing debuts in
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: As EU finalizes DMA and DSA, report reveals tech giants’ last minute lobbying to shield their business models from crackdowns on surveillance advertising, more — A new report has peeled back the curtain on big tech’s frenzied lobbying of European Union lawmakers as they finalize a major series …
Read MoreMany social media sites don’t track the actual number of likes or dislikes you get. While you can see some of your activity history, sites like Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram don’t typically flaunt your feedback in a score-based format. Reddit, on the other hand, is not your run-of-the-mill social media site. When you add a
Read MoreSurface conductors on vacuum formed parts appear in many hacks, from cosplay armor to 3D touch pads and smart objects. But making them has always been painful. Either they had to be hand painted after forming, which looked sloppy and was labor intensive, or they had to be printed with some difficult to use stretchable
Read MoreJavier Espinoza / Financial Times: The EU reaches a deal on the Digital Services Act to force social networks to toughen content moderation, reduce Google and Meta’s ad targeting of minors, more — Companies such as Google and Facebook must moderate content more actively in regulatory clampdown
Read MoreComputer memory is a problem that has been solved for many years. But early on, it was more than just a small problem. We’ve many of the different kinds at Hackaday over the years, and we’ll link to some of them later on. But one of the original types of memory was called Delay Line
Read MoreCredit: Netflix Political drama Anatomy of a Scandal is one of Netflix‘s latest hits, jumping to number one on the streaming site. If you’re won of the many people binging it, you may be looking for something similar. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of shows like Anatomy of a Scandal to watch next. The
Read MoreAsh Parrish / The Verge: The NLRB rules that 21 QA employees at Activision Blizzard’s Raven Software unit are allowed to have a union election; they have until May 20 to submit ballots — The employees have until May 20th to submit their ballots — Twenty-one Raven Software QA employees have until May 20th …
Read MoreSome of the new armor customization options in Halo Infinite’s second season. | Image: 343 Industries Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries is targeting a “late August” launch for the game’s long-awaited network co-op campaign mode, the game’s head of creative Joseph Staten says in a new Halo Waypoint blog post. As part of a new
Read MoreFresh off their series against the Seattle Mariners, the Texas Rangers head to the Coliseum to take on the Oakland A’s. Unfortunately, the A’s are making headlines for all the wrong reasons this week, recording record consecutive low attendances on Tuesday and Wednesday of just 3,748 and 2,703 respectively. The last time the A’s had
Read MoreImage: Anker At CES 2022, Anker announced an addition to its Nano II USB-C charger lineup with this more powerful version sporting two USB-C ports capable of outputting up to 100W, plus an old school USB-A charging port. Now the $79 Anker Nano II 100W (also known as the Anker 736 charger) has popped up
Read MoreCrossposting, for the uninitiated, is a form of post-sharing within a social media site like Reddit. Crossposting allows you to take a post from one community and re-post it somewhere else on Reddit. This is incredibly useful for situations like when you want people to be able to view a video without having to click
Read MoreAre we surprised it’ll be called the Pixel Watch? Nah. | Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge After years of speculation, we finally know what Google’s first in-house smartwatch will be called. Surprising absolutely no one, a new trademark filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reveals it is… Pixel Watch. The filing
Read MoreThis is Dorsey’s official image on Block’s “Leadership” website. | Image: Block Jack Dorsey’s new title at Block is not CEO, but Block Head. No, this is not a very belated April Fools’ joke. The company filed an 8-K with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announcing the change — and of course, the
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: As of Friday, Netflix’s market cap is $99.2B, after passing $300B in November; Meta briefly passed $1T in market cap in November but is now down to $532.6B — – The tech market has plunged since its peak in November, and Netflix and Facebook have been hit particularly hard.
Read MoreThe EU is working on a bill that would target “gatekeeper” companies. The bill could force Apple to open up its services and work with competitors. This could have dramatic changes for Apple products such as iMessage, FaceTime, and more. A bill making its way through the European Union could spell major trouble for Apple
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources detail how Elon Musk convinced Morgan Stanley and other banks to back his Twitter bid, including by offering his ideas on boosting Twitter’s revenue — Publicly, Elon Musk has said he doesn’t care about the economics of owning Twitter Inc. — But during a hectic …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twenty-one Raven Software QA employees have until May 20th to submit their ballots in a historic video game industry union vote. Today the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decreed that voting for the union would commence and that the voting unit would be composed of those 21 employees,
Read MoreThe organizers of a two-day developer conference titled Devs For Ukraine, starting Monday April 25, want to raise $100,000 to support NGOs and charities operating in the war-torn country. Devs For Ukraine is the brainchild of developers at Remote, an international HR startup that offers global payroll, compliance and benefits management services for companies with
Read MoreWhether in a shop window or mounted to the top of consoles in NASA’s Mission Control Center, edge lit acrylic is a popular choice for making high visibility signs. Partly because of their striking hologram-like appearance, but also because they’re exceptionally cheap and easy to produce. Just how cheap and easy? Take a look at
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google has officially filed a trademark for a product called Pixel Watch. This is the strongest evidence yet that a Google-branded smartwatch is on the way soon. It’s possible the watch could land as early as next month at Google I/O, although that’s still a very shaky rumor.
Read MoreFlorida’s governor has signed a bill stripping Disney of its special tax status in the state | Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a bill stripping the Walt Disney Company of its special tax status in the Orlando area. The move is widely viewed as retaliation against Disney for its
Read MoreThe Cincinnati Reds take to Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+ for the second time in as many weeks, and will be hoping for a better outing than their 3-1 defeat to the Dodgers last week as they host the St. Louis Cardinals. The game starts at 6:30 ET, here’s how to watch. How to
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