Millions lost internet service after three cables in the Red Sea were damaged. Houthi rebels deny targeting the cables, but their missile attack on a cargo ship, left adrift for months, is likely to blame.
Read MoreThe Dublin-based start-up’s flagship product is a patient care and communication platform called Portasana that is used by clinical teams across Ireland and the UK. Read more: Wellola: A digital health platform to reduce hospital overcrowding
Read MoreThe first computer game available as a commercial arcade cabinet is unsurprisingly, a rare sight here in 2024. Nolan Bushnel and Ted Dabney’s 1971 Computer Space was a flowing fiberglass cabinet containing a version of the minicomputer game Spacewar! running on dedicated game hardware. The pair would of course go on to found the wildly
Read MoreRecently Redis changed its license, and mountains of misinformation have followed, not to mention a fork driven by trillion-dollar cloud company AWS. Among that misinformation is Steven J. Vaughn-Nicols’ earnest but incorrect declaration that the Redis change “means developers can no longer use Redis’ code.” This is simply not true. For 99.9999999999999% of developers, their rights under the license
Read MoreA recent security vulnerability — a potential ssh backdoor via the liblzma library in the xz package — is having a lot of analysis done on how the vulnerability was introduced, and [Rob Mensching] felt that it was important to highlight what he saw as step number zero of the whole process: exploit the fact
Read More“Sail to a continent as mysterious as outer-space itself,” the new web site urges. “William Shatner saw Earth from the highest view,” writes Scripps News Service. “Now he’s heading to the bottom of it — and inviting you to join him.” The 93-year-old is setting sail for Antarctica on Dec. 19, which will mark just
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority AT&T has confirmed that data of 73 million existing and former customers has leaked on the dark web. The company has denied any breach of its systems. The carrier has also initiated a mass reset of customer account passcodes. On Saturday, AT&T confirmed that customer data of 73 million
Read More“Subscribers of both Disney+ and Hulu can now access Hulu content through the Disney+ app,” reports the Los Angeles Times, “as the Burbank media and entertainment giant launched its one-app integration of the two streaming services Wednesday…” The move is part of Disney’s plan to increase viewer engagement and reduce churn on Disney+, which has
Read MoreLast Monday shares of Reddit’s stock soared 30%, reports CNBC — and then another 8.8% on Tuesday. But the moves happened “even after New Street Research issued a neutral rating on the company” — and by the end of the week, CNBC was reporting that “Reddit shares are plummeting…” Shares closed at $49.32, ending the
Read MoreBattlelines are being drawn in Canada over the lowly Flipper Zero, a device seen by some as an existential threat to motor vehicle owners across the Great White North. The story started a month or so ago, when someone in the government floated the idea of banning devices that could be “used to steal vehicles
Read More“After taking a look at Floorp Browser, I was left wondering whether there was a Chromium-based web browser that was as good, or even better than Chrome,” writes a “First Look” reviewer at It’s Foss News. “That is when I came across Thorium, a web-browser that claims to be the ‘the fastest browser on Earth’.”
Read MoreDescribed as a “non profit volunteer search team” on its official site, Sunshine State Sonar “found more than 350 cars in canals, ponds and waterways across Florida” in just the last two years, according to the Tampa Bay Times. It’s owned by two half brothers — “weekend fishermen turned amateur underwater detectives.” [T]he true-crime junkies
Read More“Subscribers of both Disney+ and Hulu can now access Hulu content through the Disney+ app,” reports the Los Angeles Times, “as the Burbank media and entertainment giant launched its one-app integration of the two streaming services Wednesday…” The move is part of Disney’s plan to increase viewer engagement and reduce churn on Disney+, which has
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Even though we’ve only just started taking 5G plans for granted, another cellular upgrade is already on its way. Dubbed 5G Advanced, the new technology promises not just faster data speeds, but also better reliability and power savings. And unlike 6G networks, the first smartphones with 5G Advanced support
Read MoreAs a department of America’s federal Health agency, the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for public health rules, including prescription medicines. And the FDA “has not changed its position that currently available clinical trial data do not demonstrate that ivermectin is effective against COVID-19,” they confirmed to CNN this week. “The agency has not
Read MoreUnlike many modern microcontrollers, RP2040 doesn’t come with a native capacitive touch peripheral. This doesn’t mean you can’t do it – the usual software-driven way works wonderfully, and only requires an external pullup resistor! In case you wanted a demonstration or you have a capacitive touch project in mind, this lighthearted video by [Jeremy Cook]
Read MoreAs a department of America’s federal Health agency, the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for public health rules, including prescription medicines. And the FDA “has not changed its position that currently available clinical trial data do not demonstrate that ivermectin is effective against COVID-19,” they confirmed to CNN this week. “The agency has not
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Even though we’ve only just started taking 5G plans for granted, another cellular upgrade is already on its way. Dubbed 5G Advanced, the new technology promises not just faster data speeds, but also better reliability and power savings. And unlike 6G networks, the first smartphones with 5G Advanced support
Read MoreGodzilla x Kong “stomped all over expectations,” writes Deadline, “with an $80M opening, the second best start of the year so far, $2.5M behind the $82.5M opening of Legendary’s other big pic this spring, Dune: Part Two… “EntTelligence reports that GxK is expected to pull in more than 5.5M admissions this weekend, the most attended
Read MoreNew documents from a class action against Meta “reveal some of the specific ways it tackled rivals in recent years,” reports the Observer. “One of them was using software made by a mobile data analytics company called Onavo in 2016 to access user activities on Snapchat, and eventually Amazon and YouTube, too.” Facebook acquired Onavo
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Even though we’ve only just started taking 5G plans for granted, another cellular upgrade is already on its way. Dubbed 5G Advanced, the new technology promises not just faster data speeds, but also better reliability and power savings. And unlike 6G networks, the first smartphones with 5G Advanced support
Read MoreGodzilla x Kong “stomped all over expectations,” writes Deadline, “with an $80M opening, the second best start of the year so far, $2.5M behind the $82.5M opening of Legendary’s other big pic this spring, Dune: Part Two… “EntTelligence reports that GxK is expected to pull in more than 5.5M admissions this weekend, the most attended
Read More“Google is testing the ability to automatically archive and delete inactive tabs in Chrome on Android,” writes Windows Report: The experimental feature, called Tab Declutter, aims to simplify tab management by automating the process… After a set period of inactivity, Chrome will automatically archive inactive tabs. You will no longer see the archived tabs but
Read MoreThe fully assembled ESP-Drone flying around. (Credit: Circuit Digest) What’s the cheapest quadcopter you can build? As [Circuit Digest] demonstrates with their variant of the ESP-Drone project by Espressif, you only need a minimum of parts, with at the core an ESP32 MCU module, inertial measurement unit (IMU, e.g. the MPU6050) and four MOSFETs to
Read MoreA holiday weekend has delivered a delicious new deal on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus, with the mid-range tablet dropping to $469 for the first time ever. We spotted that the $130 markdown is only available on the silver model of the device, which often indicates that you won’t have long to catch
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