Month: January 2023

Sources: Dell plans to stop using chips made in China by 2024 and tells suppliers to significantly reduce the number of China-made components in its products (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: Sources: Dell plans to stop using chips made in China by 2024 and tells suppliers to significantly reduce the number of China-made components in its products  —  ‘This trend looks irreversible,’ supplier exec says of tech industry’s production shift  —  TAIPEI — U.S. computer maker Dell aims …

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A White-Light Laser, On the Cheap

Lasers are known for the monochromatic nature of their light, so much so that you might never have thought there could be such a thing as a white laser. But in the weird world of physics, a lot of things that seem impossible aren’t really, as demonstrated by this dirt-cheap supercontinuum laser. Of course, we’re

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The 2020 EncroChat hack led by the French and Dutch police is facing legal challenges across Europe and their outcome could have global implications for E2EE (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Matt Burgess / Wired: The 2020 EncroChat hack led by the French and Dutch police is facing legal challenges across Europe and their outcome could have global implications for E2EE  —  When police infiltrated the EncroChat phone system in 2020, they hit an intelligence gold mine.  But subsequent legal challenges have spread across Europe.

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Plex Discover will exit beta in Q1 2023

Credit: Plex Plex Discover will exit beta in Q1 2023. The features will remain free for all Plex users. One of Plex’s best features right now, Discover, will see a stable rollout in Q1 2023. Plex executives confirmed to Android Authority that the long-running Discover beta would end before March this year.

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CircleCI says it’s investigating a “security incident” and “out of an abundance of caution” all customers should “rotate any and all secrets stored in CircleCI” (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)

Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: CircleCI says it’s investigating a “security incident” and “out of an abundance of caution” all customers should “rotate any and all secrets stored in CircleCI”  —  CircleCI, a software development service has disclosed a security incident and is urging users to rotate their secrets.

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AMD announces Ryzen 7000 laptop CPUs including the new 7040 series of chips named Phoenix, their first laptop-centric Zen 4 CPUs using TSMC’s 4nm process (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)

Ryan Smith / AnandTech: AMD announces Ryzen 7000 laptop CPUs including the new 7040 series of chips named Phoenix, their first laptop-centric Zen 4 CPUs using TSMC’s 4nm process  —  This year’s CES has turned out to be a laptop-centric event in the PC space, and no farther do you have to look for proof

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Sony says the PlayStation 5 shortage is over and everyone can buy a console at retailers globally, and that it has sold 30M PlayStation 5 consoles (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Sony says the PlayStation 5 shortage is over and everyone can buy a console at retailers globally, and that it has sold 30M PlayStation 5 consoles  —  The PlayStation 5 shortage is finally over — at least according to Sony.  “Everyone who wants a PS5 should have a much easier

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CircleCI says it’s investigating a “security incident” and “out of an abundance of caution” all customers should “rotate any and all secrets stored in CircleCI” (Rob Zuber/CircleCI)

Rob Zuber / CircleCI: CircleCI says it’s investigating a “security incident” and “out of an abundance of caution” all customers should “rotate any and all secrets stored in CircleCI”  —  We wanted to make you aware that we are currently investigating a security incident, and that our investigation is ongoing.

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The US SEC accuses alleged fraudster Neil Chandran and four others of scamming investors for $45M+ on the false promise of selling blockchain technology (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: The US SEC accuses alleged fraudster Neil Chandran and four others of scamming investors for $45M+ on the false promise of selling blockchain technology  —  The U.S. securities agency is going after the people behind what it says was a massive fraud stealing from tens of thousands of investors.

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Sony announces Project Leonardo, a PlayStation 5 accessibility controller

Sony During Sony’s CES 2023 presentation, the company shared that it’s working on a new accessibility controller kit, codenamed “Project Leonardo”. Sony shared in an official blog post that it consulted with video game accessibility advocates like AbleGamers and SpecialEffect to create a controller that is “highly configurable” and “works in tandem with many third-party

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Stewart Platform Keeps Its Eye on the Ball

Although billed as a balancing robot, [Aaed Musa’s] robot doesn’t balance itself. It balances a ball on a platform. You might recognize this as something called a Stewart platform, and they are great fun at parties if you happen to party with a bunch of automation-loving hackers, that is. Take a look at the video

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A hacker allegedly leaks a data set containing email addresses of 200M+ Twitter users, apparently a cleaner version of the 400M set circulating in December 2022 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: A hacker allegedly leaks a data set containing email addresses of 200M+ Twitter users, apparently a cleaner version of the 400M set circulating in December 2022  —  A data leak described as containing email addresses for over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum for about

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Sony unveils Project Leonardo, an accessibility controller kit with a circular gamepad for PS5 that can be used on its own or paired with DualSense controllers (Jessica Conditt/Engadget)

Jessica Conditt / Engadget: Sony unveils Project Leonardo, an accessibility controller kit with a circular gamepad for PS5 that can be used on its own or paired with DualSense controllers  —  Sony is building a better PlayStation 5 controller with Project Leonardo, a kit that promises to make games easier to play for people with

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Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Ride Flex SoCs for the auto industry that it says can simultaneously support digital cockpit and advanced driver assistance systems (Tim Sweezy/HotHardware)

Tim Sweezy / HotHardware: Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Ride Flex SoCs for the auto industry that it says can simultaneously support digital cockpit and advanced driver assistance systems  —  On Wednesday, Qualcomm unveiled the automotive industry’s first scalable family of SoCs to simultaneously support digital cockpit technologies …

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Apple quietly launches a catalogue of books narrated by AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents say could upend the audiobook market (Leyland Cecco/The Guardian)

Leyland Cecco / The Guardian: Apple quietly launches a catalogue of books narrated by AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents say could upend the audiobook market  —  Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlash

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