Month: July 2022

A look at Ukraine’s thriving tech sector amid war; National Bank of Ukraine: tech firms brought in $3.1B in revenue from January to May 2022, up from $2.5B YoY (David Segal/New York Times)

David Segal / New York Times: A look at Ukraine’s thriving tech sector amid war; National Bank of Ukraine: tech firms brought in $3.1B in revenue from January to May 2022, up from $2.5B YoY  —  Ukrainian technology companies have earned billions.  But with most executives unable to meet foreign clients, the good times may

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Hunt the Lunpus is an ATtiny-Based Minimalist Game Console

In a world where game consoles come with ever-higher resolutions and ever-faster frame rates, it’s refreshing to see someone going in the opposite direction: [Doug McInnes]’s latest project is a tiny handheld game console with probably the lowest-resolution graphics possible. Hardware-wise, it’s a small PCB containing an ATtiny84, two seven-segment LED displays, a speaker and

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A South Carolina bill would make it illegal to host, or provide access to, a website with information that is “reasonably likely to be used for an abortion” (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: A South Carolina bill would make it illegal to host, or provide access to, a website with information that is “reasonably likely to be used for an abortion”  —  More states could follow, setting up a battle over the future of online speech across the country.  —  Listen  —  Gift

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Microsoft resumes blocking VBA macros by default in downloaded Office documents, after rolling it back earlier this month following user feedback (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft resumes blocking VBA macros by default in downloaded Office documents, after rolling it back earlier this month following user feedback  —  Microsoft announced today that it resumed the rollout of VBA macro auto-blocking in downloaded Office documents after temporarily rolling …

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Google fires engineer Blake Lemoine, who believed Google’s LaMDA conversational technology was sentient, citing employment and data security policy violations (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: Google fires engineer Blake Lemoine, who believed Google’s LaMDA conversational technology was sentient, citing employment and data security policy violations  —  Google has fired Blake Lemoine, the engineer who said he believed the company’s LaMDA conversational technology was sentient.

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T-Mobile agrees to pay $350M to settle a class action lawsuit over a cyberattack in 2021 that impacted 76M+ customers and pledges $150M in security investments (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: T-Mobile agrees to pay $350M to settle a class action lawsuit over a cyberattack in 2021 that impacted 76M+ customers and pledges $150M in security investments  —  T-Mobile agreed Friday to pay $350 million to settle class-action lawsuits brought over an August 2021 cyberattack …

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FTX plans to let customers of bankrupt crypto lender Voyager create new accounts on FTX, funded by an early distribution of a part of their bankruptcy claims (Cameron Thompson/CoinDesk)

Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk: FTX plans to let customers of bankrupt crypto lender Voyager create new accounts on FTX, funded by an early distribution of a part of their bankruptcy claims  —  The crypto exchange will allow Voyager customers to create accounts funded by an early distribution of a part of their bankruptcy claims.

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Entrust, an ID management company used by US Treasury, DHS, and others, confirms it was breached by a ransomware gang in June which stole internal data (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Entrust, an ID management company used by US Treasury, DHS, and others, confirms it was breached by a ransomware gang in June which stole internal data  —  Digital security giant Entrust has confirmed that it suffered a cyberattack where threat actors breached their network and stole data from internal systems.

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