Category: TECHNOLOGY
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What Really Motivated the Breaches of Twitch and Epik?
The Washington Post explores recent breaches at Twitch and Epik — and asks whether they really signal an upsurge in “hacktivism”: The perpetrators of these hacks are distancing themselves from financially driven cybercriminals and ransomware gangs by portraying their attacks as moral crusades against what… Read Article What Really Motivated the Breaches of Twitch and…
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NASA Space Telecoms Network May Soon Be Outsourced
vm shares a report from Space.com: SpaceX is among companies that might replace services of NASA’s aging space telecoms constellation that has kept the International Space Station connected to Earth for decades. For years, NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) constellation has served as the main link… Read Article NASA Space Telecoms Network May…
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Backblaze Uncovers the Most Reliable Hard Drives
Backblaze, a cloud storage service that’s been running hundreds of thousands of storage drives to keep an eye on reliability, has issued its latest report. ZDNet summarizes the major findings: Over 2021, Backblaze added 40,460 hard drives to its pool of drives, making a total of 206,928 drives in total. Of… Read Article Backblaze Uncovers…
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70-Year-Old Cyberpunk: ‘This Interview Is a Mistake’
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: He was the co-publisher of the first popular digital culture magazine, MONDO 2000, from 1989–1993. Now as R. U. Sirius approaches his 70th birthday, a San Francisco-based writer conducts a rollicking interview for the Berlin-based Spike Art Magazine. (“I wanted to… Read Article 70-Year-Old Cyberpunk: ‘This Interview Is a Mistake’…
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Cloudflare Says Intel is Not Inside Its Next-Gen Servers
Internet-grooming company Cloudflare has revealed that it was unable to put Intel inside its new home-brew servers, because they just used too much energy. A Tuesday post by platform operations engineer Chris Howells reveals that Cloudflare has been working on designs for an eleventh-generation server since… Read Article Read Also: All-Remote GitLab Valued at $15B…
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Mozilla Is Hellbent On Making Their New Firefox UI Unusable
Artem S. Tashkinov writes: Over the past ten years, Firefox market share has decreased substantially and the web browser has lost its appeal and coolness. Seeing that, someone at Mozilla probably decided that the best way to entice people back is by changing its UI, thus Firefox has already seen quite a huge… Read Article…
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Python Programming Language of the Year by ‘Somewhat Dubious’ TIOBE Index
Programming columnist Mike Melanson describes the announcement of this year’s programming language of the year: The TIOBE Index, the somewhat dubious ranking of programming language popularity according to search engine results, has announced its yearly proclamation of “language of the year,” with the award… Read Article Read Also: Russia’s ‘Nonsensical, Impossible Quest’ to Create Its…
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Beware Fake Windows 11 Upgrade Installers Bringing RedLine Malware
Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Beware fake Windows 11 upgrades install RedLine malware, reports Bleeping Computer. “Threat actors have started distributing fake Windows 11 upgrade installers to users of Windows 10, tricking them into downloading and executing RedLine stealer malware.” Bleeping Computer… Read Article Read Also: Russia’s ‘Nonsensical, Impossible Quest’ to Create Its Own Domestic Internet…
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American Schools Phone Apps Send Children’s Info To Ad Networks, Analytics Firms
LeeLynx shares a report from The Register: The majority of Android and iOS apps created for US public and private schools send student data to assorted third parties, researchers have found, calling into question privacy commitments from Apple and Google as app store stewards. The Me2B Alliance, a non-profit… Read Article Read Also: Russia’s ‘Nonsensical,…
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Microsoft Edge Latest Feature Called a ‘Shameless Cash Grab’ by Critics
Microsoft Edge recently gained a feature that allows people to pay for online purchases in installments. It’s known as buy now, pay later (BNPL), and it’s currently in testing on Microsoft Edge Dev and Canary. The option drew criticism from fans and users of the browser that expressed frustration in the… Read Article Read Also:…