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The FBI arrested a New York man who allegedly ran BreachForums, a dark web site that hosted stolen databases of ~1K companies, under the alias “pompompurin” (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: The FBI arrested a New York man who allegedly ran BreachForums, a dark web site that hosted stolen databases of ~1K companies, under the alias “pompompurin” — Federal agents have arrested a Peekskill, New York, man they say ran the notorious dark web data-breach site “BreachForums” under the name “Pompompurin.”

HP 3488A Teardown, Dismantled for Parts

[IMSAI Guy] has an old HP 3488A Switch Control Unit that he wants to dismantle for parts ( see video below the break ). The 3488A is pretty simple as far as HP test equipment goes — a chassis that can hold various types of relay cards and is programmable over GPIB. He notes up front

Some investors are concerned SVB’s collapse and its rescue by the US government, after Silicon Valley investors’ lobbying, could lead to tougher tech regulation (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Some investors are concerned SVB’s collapse and its rescue by the US government, after Silicon Valley investors’ lobbying, could lead to tougher tech regulation — Late last Saturday night, Jason Calacanis, a prominent internet entrepreneur and investor, hit the caps button on his keyboard …

Best Projectors of 2023

Projectors have become an increasingly popular option for those seeking to enhance their home entertainment experience or improve their professional presentations. With a wide variety of options on the market, each with its unique features and capabilities, it can be challenging to determine which projector is the best fit for your needs. In the past

How tech from Synthesia, an AI startup backed by Kleiner Perkins and GV, is being used to make deepfake news videos promoted by Venezuela’s government (Financial Times)

Financial Times: How tech from Synthesia, an AI startup backed by Kleiner Perkins and GV, is being used to make deepfake news videos promoted by Venezuela’s government — UK tech company developed software used in fake news videos promoted by authoritarian government — As Venezuela prepared for carnival season …

Broken Pocket Watch Becomes Pocket Sundial

Pocket watches are all well and good, but they have some caveats. They either need regular rewinding, or they need batteries. Sundials on the other hand need only the light from our One True Sun. [JGJMatt] has just the project to convert your broken or disused pocket watches to the solar way of telling the

Microsoft’s new share button makes it easy to show people what Bing AI is saying

Illustration: The Verge Microsoft is trying to make it easier to share your experiences with its GPT-4-powered Bing Chat by adding a button that lets you post the AI’s response to Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest. People have already been sharing the interesting (and sometimes upsetting) things that the chatbot has been saying via screenshots, but

Hidden Systems is the book I’ll use to teach my kids how the internet works

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Growing up, I learned The Way Things Work from author David Macaulay’s incredible illustrated books. This week, I was surprised to see Macaulay’s endorsement in my inbox for a new illustrated explainer by a different author — but the surprise didn’t last long. Fifteen minutes after I began

Samsung Galaxy A14 5G vs Galaxy A53 5G

Within the last few years, the Samsung Galaxy A-series phones have emerged as some of the best options for budget mobile devices. That said, not all of them are priced as such. The Galaxy A14 5G, for example, is clearly outlined as a budget-oriented phone starting at $199.99. The Galaxy A53 5G, on the other

Hidden Systems is the book I’ll use to teach my kids how the internet works

Microsoft’s new share button makes it easy to show people what Bing AI is saying

Samsung Galaxy A14 5G vs Galaxy A53 5G

Source: TikTok is paying dozens of creators to visit DC next week and lobby lawmakers against a forced sale, ahead of CEO Shou Zi Chew’s testimony on March 23 (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)

Hailey Fuchs / Politico: Source: TikTok is paying dozens of creators to visit DC next week and lobby lawmakers against a forced sale, ahead of CEO Shou Zi Chew’s testimony on March 23 — The influential social media app TikTok is flooding the nation’s capital with influencers next week as part of an 11th hour

Microsoft will make it a little easier to switch your default apps in Windows 11

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is promising significant changes to the way Windows manages which apps open certain files by default and how users can select programs to pin to their Start menu on the Windows desktop or on the taskbar. A new Settings deep link URI scheme will let developers send users

After SVB froze its deposits, HR software startup Rippling raised a $500M Series E at an $11.25B valuation, same as Series D, taking its total funding to $1.2B (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: After SVB froze its deposits, HR software startup Rippling raised a $500M Series E at an $11.25B valuation, same as Series D, taking its total funding to $1.2B — As a serial entrepreneur who has famously endured some ups and downs, Parker Conrad has nearly seen it all. Or so he

Someone please buy me this glass mouse pad

I want this to be me. Hoodie and all. | Image: Razer Mouse pads are one thing. Mouse pads made of glass? Quite another. This, at least, is what I’m assuming based on the promotional materials for the Razer Atlas, Razer’s first glass mouse pad. “Absolute functionality and durability,” Razer’s website proclaims. “Experience pure polished

Finessing a Soldering Iron to Remove Large Connectors

One of the first tools that is added to a toolbox when working on electronics, perhaps besides a multimeter, is a soldering iron. From there, soldering tools can be added as needed such as a hot air gun, reflow oven, soldering gun, or desoldering pump. But often a soldering iron is all that’s needed even

After SVB froze its deposits, HR software startup Rippling raised a $500M Series E at an $11.25B valuation, same as Series D, taking its total funding to $1.2B (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Microsoft’s new share button makes it easy to show people what Bing AI is saying

Finessing a Soldering Iron to Remove Large Connectors

Source: TikTok is paying dozens of creators to visit DC next week and lobby lawmakers against a forced sale, ahead of CEO Shou Zi Chew’s testimony on March 23 (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)

The FTC finalized a $245M fine for Epic Games on March 14 over tricking users into making unintended Fortnite purchases and bans Epic from using dark patterns (Andy Brown/NME)

Andy Brown / NME: The FTC finalized a $245M fine for Epic Games on March 14 over tricking users into making unintended Fortnite purchases and bans Epic from using dark patterns — Epic Games faces over half a billion dollars in fines from the FTC — The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) …

Advanced 3D Printing Tips

One of the best things about hanging around with other hackers is you hear about the little tricks they use for things like 3D printing. But with the Internet, you can overhear tips from people you’ll probably never meet, like [3D Printer Academy]. His recent video has a little bit of a click-bait title (“10

Feds seized $2.7 million of Chinese billionaire’s money from Trump-aligned social network

Illustration: The Verge Federal authorities seized nearly $3 million from Gettr last September as part of a sweeping billion-dollar fraud investigation into a Chinese billionaire. On Wednesday, the Justice Department arrested Chinese billionaire and dissident Guo Wengui, also known as Ho Wan Kwok and Miles Guo, for allegedly defrauding thousands of people out of more

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