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Leaked chat logs: Lapsus$ hacked T-Mobile multiple times in March and stole some projects’ source code; T-Mobile says no customer or government info was stolen (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Leaked chat logs: Lapsus$ hacked T-Mobile multiple times in March and stole some projects’ source code; T-Mobile says no customer or government info was stolen — KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group …

Twitter is reportedly working on a vibe check feature

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is reportedly working on a feature that allows users to set a status, codenamed “Vibe.” The possible feature was first spotted by Jane Manchun Wong, a researcher and reverse engineer with a track record of spoiling upcoming app updates. Screenshots shared by Wong show a “Set a

Blu-ray Microscope Uses Blood Cells As Lenses

When you think of high-throughput ptychographic cytometry (wait, you do think about high throughput ptychographic cytometry, right?) does it bring to mind something you can hack together from an old Blu-ray player, an Arduino, and, er, some blood? Apparently so for [Shaowei Jiang] and some of his buddies in this ACS Sensors Article. For those

Jane Manchun Wong: Twitter is working on a feature codenamed “Vibe” that lets users set status updates that appear on tweets or on profiles (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Mia Sato / The Verge: Jane Manchun Wong: Twitter is working on a feature codenamed “Vibe” that lets users set status updates that appear on tweets or on profiles — Status updates could appear on tweets or on profiles — Twitter is reportedly working on a feature that allows users to set a status, codenamed

Stubby SD cards are back

This is the JetDrive Lite 330 looks like popped out. | Image: Transcend SD card slots have returned to the MacBook Pro in their 2021 iteration, which means it was only a matter of time before we started seeing MacBook-tailored SD cards hit shelves again. Today, in gadgets we’ve seen before but recent events have

Apple Cash virtual debit cards may be switching from Discover to Visa

Apple Cash debit cards may be switching from Discover to Visa. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Cash, formerly known as Apple Pay Cash, may be transitioning from the Discover payments network to Visa, a new report from MacRumors suggests. Visa has a much larger global network than Discover, which might account

Fantasy Heroes Rarely Go on Strike

The genre often focuses on the politics of feudal systems, but rarely on collective struggle.

Fill up your iPhone or iPad with great apps and games from the App Store

With millions of apps and games to choose from, there’s plenty to discover on the App Store. Getting your first iPhone or iPad is just the beginning. Now it’s time to customize it and make it your own. On the outside, you can always buy a new iPhone case or any other accessories to do

Hackaday Podcast 165: Old Printers, Dark Towers, 3DP Gaskets, and Wavy Traces

Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Assignments Editor Kristina Panos as we gab about the most interesting hacks and stories of the previous week. This time, we start off by marveling over everything happening this weekend. Most urgently, it’s your last chance to enter the 2022 Sci-Fi contest, which closes Monday, April 25th at 8:30

BRINC, Skydio, and other US startups are replacing DJI drones in Ukraine, following unexplained failures in the Chinese company’s equipment during the war (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: BRINC, Skydio, and other US startups are replacing DJI drones in Ukraine, following unexplained failures in the Chinese company’s equipment during the war — U.S. drone makers spot opportunity as use of drones from China-based DJI sparks security concerns — Hovering in the sky above Ukraine …

How to choose which Apple Watch to buy

Photo illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Now that Apple has several models, there’s more to consider Continue reading…

Filing: Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht will see his $183M debt forfeited following the 2020 seizure of 69K+ bitcoins connected to an unnamed Silk Road hacker (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Filing: Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht will see his $183M debt forfeited following the 2020 seizure of 69K+ bitcoins connected to an unnamed Silk Road hacker — A court filing has revealed that bitcoin seized in 2020 will repay the Silk Road founder’s $183 million debt to the U.S. government.

Sony aims for June 13th US launch for revamped PlayStation Plus

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sony is aiming to launch its revamped PlayStation Plus tiers in the Americas on June 13th, the company announced Friday. Sony is targeting a launch date first in markets in Asia (with the exception of Japan) on May 23rd, followed by a Japan launch on June 1st, an

Twitter is testing a CC button for captions on videos

Twitter is testing a CC button for closed captions on videos. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter said on Friday it’s testing a new “CC” button to turn captions on and off on videos with captions available. The feature is rolling out to some users on iOS and will be coming “soon”

Did you just get a new iPad Pro? Make sure to set up Face ID!

To unlock the iPad Pro with biometrics, you need to set it up Face ID. You can set up, change, and customize Face ID at any time. Ever since the iPhone X, Apple has moved away from the Home button-enabled Touch ID for most of its iPhone and iPad devices. In its place is Face

This Week in Security: Java’s Psychic Signatures, AWS Escape, And a Nasty Windows Bug

Java versions 15, 16, 17, and 18 (and maybe some older versions) have a big problem, ECDSA signature verification is totally broken. The story is a prime example of the dangers of unintended consequences, the pitfall of rolling your own crypto, and why to build a test suite for important code. In Java 15, the

Sony Plans to Sell Ads in PlayStation Games

(Photo: Tamara Bitter/Unsplash)There are few things you can do these days without being subjected to ads. Soon, playing console games will no longer be one of them. Sony is working with marketing partners to design in-game ads, according to sources for Business Insider. Similar to how free mobile games tend to display ads at the

Ethereum scaling project Polygon launches a dedicated blockchain network called Supernets and says it will invest $100M in initiatives that use it (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Ethereum scaling project Polygon launches a dedicated blockchain network called Supernets and says it will invest $100M in initiatives that use it — Polygon has launched a new kind of dedicated blockchain network dubbed Supernets and said it will invest $100 million in projects that use it.

Twitter’s new edit tweets feature leaked, here’s how it’ll work

“Tweets will be editable for 1 hour” What you need to know Twitter has confirmed it is working on an edit button. New insight reveals tweets will be editable for one hour after posting. A small ‘Edited’ sign will show up on tweets that have been edited. New insight has revealed that Twitter’s edit feature

YouTuber Trevor Jacob Really Did Crash His Plane On Purpose, FAA Finds

(Image: Trevor Jacob)The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed what many already suspected: influencer Trevor Jacob really did crash his plane on purpose back in January. The crash was questionable from the beginning. Jacob, a YouTuber known for posting shocking content to his channel, said he lost control of his Taylorcraft BL64 during a flight

What you’re seeing in Google’s Earth Day Doodle

Glacier retreat in Greenland. | Image: Google This Earth Day, Google is dedicating its Doodle to how badly we’re messing up our beloved planet. It’s actually kind of a cool Doodle. Four different GIFs show time lapses of dramatic changes driven by climate change. From Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, you’ll see footage of bright corals

CNN+ Shuts Down One Month After Launch

It’s not often that streaming services debut and then shut down in the same year — Quibi is a notable exception. CNN’s new premium streaming service has beaten even that speedrun. CNN+ launched not even a month ago, and the company has now announced that it will shut down on April 30th. The decision came

CERN’s particle accelerator starts up after a three-year hiatus

The Large Hadron Collider restarted after three years of upgrades. | CERN Two beams of protons zipped around the Large Hadron Collider on Friday, marking the return of the world’s largest particle accelerator after over three years on hiatus. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or CERN, spent the past three years doing maintenance work

Glide, a no-code service that lets businesses create apps based on Google Sheets, Excel, or Airtable, raises a $20M Series A led by Benchmark (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Glide, a no-code service that lets businesses create apps based on Google Sheets, Excel, or Airtable, raises a $20M Series A led by Benchmark — When Glide came out of Y Combinator in 2019, it was looking to help people with absolutely no coding ability to build a simple, but functional

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Video of a Solar Eclipse on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured a spectacular video of an April solar eclipse on Mars. The video clearly depicts Phobos as it eclipses the sun, as seen from the Martian surface. “You can see details in the shape of Phobos’ shadow, like ridges and bumps on the moon’s landscape,” said planetary astronomer Mark Lemmon in

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