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USB-C this, USB-C that, give me back my barrel jack
One of the biggest reasons why I went all in on USB-C, even with my primary laptop, was a simple promise. Back in 2021,...
SHEETCREEP C# RAT Abuses Google Sheets API as C2 to Target Diplomatic Organizations
A newly identified remote access trojan named SHEETCREEP is making headlines for its clever use of Google Sheets as a...
Cable Lobbyists Show How Trump FCC’s Extortive ‘Foreign Router Ban’ Isn’t Workable
Back in March I noted how the Trump FCC under Brendan Carr had announced a “new ban” on all routers made overseas...
Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops
Google has sued an alleged China-based cybercrime operation it says used AI-powered phishing kits to blast out millions...
Microsoft fixes Windows update failures linked to WUSA installer
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused Windows updates released since May 2025 to fail when installed via the...
Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000
UPDATED SpaceX priced its blockbuster initial public offering at $135 a share on Friday, raising $75 billion and...
Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan
Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator...
Less than 2% of people use this browser — everyone else is missing out
Brave may be a popular beast among power users, but if you look at the overall market share, it’s still a tiny...
Pokemon Go Data Was Used To Help Train AI Systems Being Developed For Military Drones
Pokemon Go players' optional location scans reportedly helped train Niantic Spatial's visual positioning system, which...
Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked
London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is planning to cut around 700 extra frontline posts after being blocked from...
AVX-512 Optimization For Linux RAID Showing Up To 41% Improvement On AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
Linux cryptography subsystem expert Eric Biggers Eric Biggers of Google worked on some pretty nice Intel/AMD x86_64...
Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware
The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these...
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