Many hackers have familiar sayings in their heads, such as “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and KISS (Keep it simple, stupid). Those of us who have been in the field for some time have habits that are hard to break. When it comes to personal networks, simplicity is key, and the idea of
Read MoreAmerica’s Justice Department “indicted the creators of an application that helps people spend their bitcoins anonymously,” writes Reason.com: They’re accused of “conspiracy to commit money laundering.” Why “conspiracy to commit” as opposed to just “money laundering”? Because they didn’t hold anyone else’s money or do anything illegal with it. They provided a privacy tool that
Read MoreScreenshot: YouTube Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles got its first official trailer yesterday, revealing that the Mutant Mayhem spinoff will debut August 9th, with a 12-episode run on Paramount Plus. And from the looks of things, it’s just as gorgeous as the 3D-animated movie it sprang from. The new trailer sees the four
Read More[Will Cogley] makes eyeballs; hey, everyone needs a hobby, and we don’t judge. Like all his animatronics, his eyeballs are wondrous mechanisms, but they do tend toward being a bit complex, especially in terms of the fasteners needed to assemble them. But not anymore. [Will] redid his eyeball design to be as easy to assemble
Read MoreDuring last night’s Major League Baseball telecast on Apple TV Plus, a grounder bounced off the right hand of Los Angeles Dodger player Enrique “Kiké” Hernández and right into his crotch. That gave New York Yankees batter Gleyber Torres enough time to get to first. Does that happen all the time? Sure. It’s just that
Read More“Researchers observed a new Linux variant of the TargetCompany ransomware family that targets VMware ESXi environments,” reports BleepingComputer: In a report Wednesday, cybersecurity company Trend Micro says that the new Linux variant for TargetCompany ransomware makes sure that it has administrative privileges before continuing the malicious routine… Once on the target system, the payload checks
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: “Great news, Louisiana!” tech-backed Code.org exclaimed Wednesday in celebratory LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter posts. Louisiana is “officially the 10th state to make computer science a [high school] graduation requirement. Huge thanks to Governor Jeff Landry for signing the bill and to our legislative champions, Rep. Jason Hughes and Sen. Thomas
Read More“Rust is the fastest-growing programming language, with its developer community doubling in size over the past two years,” writes The New Stack, “yet JavaScript remains the most popular language with 25.2 million active developers, according to the results of a recent survey.” The 26th edition of SlashData’s Developer Nation survey showed that the Rust community
Read MoreA worker at a retail store in an airport has been charged with stealing thousands of dollars in electronics and clothing, reports the Washington Post. But what’s more interesting is what led to his arrest… A woman showed up at his home looking for the missing luggage that she’d tracked with her Apple Watch. CNN
Read MoreThe iPad is the perfect tool for photo editing, and there are dozens of photo apps for it. Here are the best choices to make your photos stand out. These are the best iPad photo editing apps The iPad is a nearly perfect platform for photo editing. What started as a more consumer-focused product that
Read MoreLost and Found Co. | Image: Bit Egg Despite its cozy appearance, Wholesome Direct 2024 is actually shaping up to be the most packed event of Summer Game Fest. The hour-long presentation featured more than 70 different games. Some were brand-new announcements, some were previously known games that got a fresh trailer or release date,
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: A YouTuber who posted a Fourth of July video in which passengers on a low-flying helicopter shot fireworks at a speeding Lamborghini is facing a federal charge tied to the stunt. Suk Min Choi, 24, who runs a YouTube channel under the name Alex Choi,
Read MoreNanoleaf’s smart ceiling lights offer hundreds of colors and an array of impressive lighting effects. | Image: Nanoleaf The days are getting brighter, but with the current heatwave plaguing much of the US, how many of us can really go out and enjoy it? Luckily, Nanoleaf’s Skylight Smarter Kit is on sale for the first
Read MoreImage: Lucasfilm Ltd. Kevin Jenkins is a Star Wars veteran at this point, having worked in a variety of design roles across multiple films, ranging from Rogue One to The Rise of Skywalker. But as production designer on the Disney Plus series The Acolyte, he faced an entirely new challenge: finding a look that doesn’t
Read MorePhil Schiller may have slightly overstated Siri’s initial abilities. | Photo by Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images When Apple first launched Siri in 2011 alongside the iPhone 4S, the company made a series of very compelling ads showing how you might use this newfangled voice assistant thing. In one, Zooey Deschanel asks her phone about
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taVznf-giBk Microsoft’s Windows has just arrived at a crossroads. The status quo is being challenged by a mainstream move into the Arm architecture and a heavy push for AI as a major feature of Microsoft’s software ecosystem. But while these Copilot Plus laptop features sound exciting, our admittedly short hands-on with Recall suggests many are
Read MoreWe have exclusively discovered how much iOS 18 and macOS 15 will upgrade Siri and improve everything you do. Here’s what the new-and-improved Siri will be able to do. Siri will be able to perform complex actions in core system apps In one of our earlier exclusive reports, we said that Siri would get a
Read MorePlus: A media executive is charged in an alleged money-laundering scheme, a ransomware attack disrupts care at London hospitals, and Google’s former CEO has a secretive drone project up his sleeve.
Read MoreThe MSI Claw. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge When I called the MSI Claw an embarrassment in my May 18th review, one commenter pointed out they’d gotten higher benchmark scores than me. Sure enough: MSI had pushed out new graphics drivers and BIOS updates between the time I benchmarked and the time
Read MoreDreamcars has revolutionized the luxury car ownership experience by introducing a unique concept of fractional ownership through non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This innovative approach not only makes luxury cars more accessible but also provides a new avenue for passive income through daily rental income. Fractional Ownership: A New Era in Luxury Car Ownership The fractional ownership
Read MoreCarbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere are accumulating “faster than ever” and have reached unprecedented levels, with a peak of 426.9 ppm recorded at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory in May 2024, said scientists from NOAA, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California San Diego. CBS News reports: “Over the past year, we’ve
Read MoreThe Google Play Store for Android has a feature to update apps automatically. However, sometimes, the auto update feature fails to function properly. Recently, a few Android users messaged us asking about how to fix the Google Play Store’s problem of not auto updating apps. The problem seems to affect many users, even when the
Read MoreAn essential part of drones are the Electronic Speed Controller (ESC) which translate the commands from the flight computer into responses by the connected brushless motors (generally BLDCs). As the ESC determines a lot of the performance characteristics of a drone, it has its own firmware, which for (FPV) drones is overwhelmingly BLHeli, specifically the
Read MoreThe Russia-aligned cyber threat actor known as NoName057 (16) has reportedly announced that it is launching large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting internet infrastructure throughout Europe. The group is notorious for orchestrating Project DDoSia, a campaign that conducts massive DDoS attacks against entities supportive of Ukraine, mainly targeting NATO countries. Why are hacker
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Science Magazine: Authors of a landmark Alzheimer’s disease research paper published in Nature in 2006 have agreed to retract the study in response to allegations of image manipulation. University of Minnesota (UMN) Twin Cities neuroscientist Karen Ashe, the paper’s senior author, acknowledged in a post on the journal
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