Mullvad's co-founder is bankrolling the far right - Korben

Daniel Berntsson is the co-founder of Mullvad, a highly regarded Swedish VPN service. That reputation is likely about to take a hit, though, since we've ...

korben.info

Deepfakes are everywhere. The godfather of digital forensics is fighting back

Hany Farid, who's spent his career building tools to detect fake images, is facing his biggest challenge yet: AI

science.org

How New York Became a Beacon of Joy on an Otherwise Grim 250th Anniversary

Councilman Chi Ossé doesn't see the tension between the national mood and citywide celebrations as anything unusual.

culturedmag.com

Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet

Ever give your photo ID to a cannabis club in Spain?

theverge.com

New video shows Tetris and Rubik’s Cube creators meeting for the first time to discuss their world famous puzzles | VGC

Alexey Pajitnov and Ernő Rubik’s creations were recently combined for a collaborative cube…

videogameschronicle.com

The new HTTP QUERY method explained | Kreya

In this blog post, we take a deep dive into the new HTTP QUERY method, explaining the history behind it as well as the advantages and disadvantages of using it.

kreya.app

.gitignore Isn’t the Only Way To Ignore Files in Git

You can ignore files in .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore

nelson.cloud

To study how chips really work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

The new "Fractal" operating system kernel, developed at MIT, gives researchers a clearer look at how computer chips work internally. It was used to study the branch predictors inside Apple&#...

news.mit.edu

From NYCHA to the Garden, the Knicks' Jose Alvarado is living a New Yorker's dream

Perhaps no player sends a clearer message to New York kids that making it to the NBA is achievable.

gothamist.com

Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

algorithmichiring.github.io

HTMX and Alpine.js: How to combine two great, lean front ends

Alpine and HTMX both take a fresh approach to web development by pushing the limits of HTML Now you can use them together.

infoworld.com

Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions be...

krebsonsecurity.com

Remember These 10 Breakthrough Microsoft Products?

Pocket computers. Sort-of smartwatches. Motion-sensing game controllers. None of these big ideas are as memorable as Windows or Office, but we think they're standouts in Microsoft's 50-year history. T...

pcmag.com

Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200

A big Steam Deck price hike.

theverge.com

IRC Watchlist Flash Alert: Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC spreading faster than response | The IRC

IRC Watchlist Flash Alert: Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC spreading faster than response

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Norway’s 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training

Norway’s National Library is developing a large language model (LLM) that understands the Norwegian ...

blocksandfiles.com

AI is killing the cheap smartphone

The global memory crunch and the great repricing of consumer electronics

open.substack.com

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93

nytimes.com

A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

According to the researcher, YellowKey appears unusual for a previously unknown security bug. Nightmare-Eclipse explained that the flaw can be reproduced by copying an attached "FsTx" folder...

techspot.com

Poland is now among the world's 20 largest economies. How it happened

Poland once was in economic ruins when communism fell more than three decades ago. Now it's the 20th largest economy in the world.

apnews.com

Rwanda: Critic Dies in Prison on Release Day

Rwandan authorities should conduct an effective, independent, and transparent investigation into the death in custody of Aimable Karasira, a Rwandan academic and outspoken government critic, on the da...

hrw.org

Gaming gets pricier amid chip crunch

Gaming consoles in Korea are hitting record-high prices, driven by a tightening supply of consumer-grade memory as semiconductor makers pivot toward artificial

koreaherald.com

RDC: Joseph Kabila est-il désormais hors-jeu ?

Sanctionné par Washington qui l’accuse de « semer l’instabilité » dans son pays en soutenant le groupe armé M23, condamné à mort par Kinshasa, son réseau décapité, Joseph Kabila semble aujourd'hui acc...

rfi.my

GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay

GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay, according to people familiar with the matter, part of CEO Ryan Cohen’s plan to turn GameStop into a $100 billion-plus juggernaut.

wsj.com

Before GitHub

Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction

lucumr.pocoo.org

The Citizen Lab Bad Connection: Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors

Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose h...

citizenlab.ca

Apple fixes iOS bug that retained deleted notification data

Apple has released out-of-band security updates for iPhone and iPad devices to fix a Notification Services flaw that could allow notifications marked for deletion to remain stored on the device.

bleepingcomputer.com

If You Have One of These 8 Wi-Fi Routers, You Might Have a Really Big Problem—Here’s Why

The FBI just issued a warning that Wi-Fi routers may be seriously compromised. Do you have one of these models? Experts explain the risks.

rd.com

Your Smart TV Is Secretly Spying on You—Here’s How to Get It to Stop

Your data is everywhere these days, and we do mean everywhere! If you thought you could watch TV without being tracked, you should read this.

rd.com