IT News 10 months ago

Ex-CISA chief decries cuts as Trump demands loyalty above all else - Cybersecurity is national security, says Jen Easterly RSAC  America's top cyber-defense a... -

Ex-CISA chief slams cuts as Trump demands total loyalty

RSAC: Cybersecurity is national security, says Jen Easterly

IT News 10 months ago

Millions of Apple Airplay-enabled devices can be hacked via Wi-Fi - Apple’s AirPlay feature enables iPhones and MacBooks to seamlessly play mu... -

Ars Technica

Millions of Apple Airplay-enabled devices can be hacked via Wi-Fi

Hackers can run their code on AirPlay devices thanks to a collection of bugs known as AirBorne.

#syndication #security #airplay #biz⁢ #apple

IT News 10 months ago

Chemical In Plastics Linked To 350,000 Heart Disease Deaths - An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Daily exposure to certain chemi... -

Chemical In Plastics Linked To 350,000 Heart Disease Deaths - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to manufacture household plastics may be connected to m...

#medicine

IT News 10 months ago

Comparing ‘AI’ for Basic Plant Care With Human Brown Thumbs - The future of healthy indoor plants, courtesy of AI. (Credit: [Liam])Like so many ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/comparing-ai-for-basic-plant-care-with-human-brown-thumbs/ #artificialintelligence #automaticplantwatering #automatedplantcare #soilmoisturesensor #greenhacks

IT News 10 months ago

Lenovo May Be Avoiding the 'Windows Tax' By Offering Cheaper Laptops With Pre-Installed Linux - "The U.S. and Canadian websites for Lenovo offered U.S. $140 and CAD $211 off on t... -

Lenovo May Be Avoiding the

"The U.S. and Canadian websites for Lenovo offered U.S. $140 and CAD $211 off on the same ThinkPad X1 Carbon model when choosing any one of the...

#portables

IT News 11 months ago

Meta expands restrictions for teen users to Facebook and Messenger - The system imposes more restricted settings on younger users - though campaigners say it'... -

Meta expands Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger

The system imposes more restricted settings on younger users - though campaigners say it's unclear what difference they make.

IT News 11 months ago

Don't open that JPG sent via WhatsApp for Windows. It might be an .EXE - What a MIME field A bug in WhatsApp for Windows can be exploited to execute malicious cod... -

Don

: What a MIME field

IT News 11 months ago

Google tools for required for classwork are allegedly being used to build data profiles of each student - A new lawsuit alleges that Google is spying on school child... -

Tom

Google tools required for classwork are allegedly being used to build data profiles of each student

Google now faces a lawsuit for spying on students through mandatory Chromebook usage.

#googlechrome #software #browsers

IT News 11 months ago

Framework pauses U.S. sales of base Laptop 13 models due to tariffs — company says other vendors are pausing sales too, but not making announcements - The cheapest Framework Laptop 13s powered by a Core Ultra 5... -

Tom

Framework pauses U.S. sales of base Laptop 13 models due to tariffs — company says other vendors are pausing sales too, but not making announcements

The cheapest Framework models are temporarily unavailable.

#laptops

IT News 11 months ago

How a Tiny Relay Became a USB Swiss Army Knife - Meet the little board that could: [alcor6502]’s tiny USB relay controller, now evo... -

Hackaday

How A Tiny Relay Became A USB Swiss Army Knife

Meet the little board that could: [alcor6502]’s tiny USB relay controller, now evolved into a multifunction marvel. Originally built as a sim...

#microcontrollers #swissarmyknife #computerhacks #linuxhacks #swissknife #pcbhacks #boot0 #relay #servo #stm32 #news #uart #usb

IT News 11 months ago

Microsoft Uses AI To Find Flaws In GRUB2, U-Boot, Barebox Bootloaders - Slashdot reader zlives shared this report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft used ... -

Microsoft Uses AI To Find Flaws In GRUB2, U-Boot, Barebox Bootloaders - Slashdot

Slashdot reader zlives shared this report from BleepingComputer: Microsoft used its AI-powered Security Copilot to discover 20 previously unknown...

#ai

IT News 11 months ago

Scientists Warn Indonesia's Rice Megaproject Faces Failure - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious plan to create 1 million hectare... -

Scientists Warn Indonesia

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto

#science

IT News 11 months ago

95% of Code Will Be AI-Generated Within Five Years, Microsoft CTO Says - Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott has predicted that AI will generate... -

95% of Code Will Be AI-Generated Within Five Years, Microsoft CTO Says - Slashdot

Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott has predicted that AI will generate 95% of code within five years. Speaking on the 20VC podcast, Sco...

#ai

IT News 11 months ago

YouTube Could Be Worth $550 Billion as Analyst Crowns Platform 'New King of All Media' - MoffettNathanson has crowned YouTube the "New King of All Media" as the Alphabet-o... -

YouTube Could Be Worth $550 Billion as Analyst Crowns Platform

MoffettNathanson has crowned YouTube the "New King of All Media" as the Alphabet-owned video platform has become a major force in Hollywood...

#youtube

IT News 11 months ago

Kink and LGBT dating apps exposed 1.5m private user images online - The often-explicit pictures are being stored without password protection, leaving them vu... -

Dating apps for kink and LGBT communities expose 1.5m private user images online

The often-explicit pictures are being stored without password protection, leaving them vulnerable to a hack.

IT News 11 months ago

Signalgate storm intensifies as journalist releases full secret Houthi airstrike chat - So F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now ... who knew? The Atla... -

Signalgate storm brews up as journalist releases transcripts

Updated: So F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now ... who knew?

IT News 11 months ago

Reflecting on TikTok’s Role in Society as New Ban Deadline Approaches - With a national ban unlikely, let’s reflect on how the app both sparks joy among users an... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/technology/personaltech/tiktok-ban-deadline.html #videorecordingsdownloadsandstreaming #beijingbytedancetechnologycoltd #computersandtheinternet #contenttype:service #mobileapplications #capcut(bytedance) #tiktok(bytedance) #trumpdonaldj #socialmedia #e-commerce

IT News 11 months ago

Trump's Crypto Venture Introduces a Stabelcoin - World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his family, h... -

Trump

World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his family, has launched a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin called USD1. The toke...

#bitcoin

IT News 11 months ago

Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data - 'Don't wait for another pandemic or civil challenge,' says US spy-tech biz Comment  It mi... -

Palantir suggests

Comment: 'Don't wait for another pandemic or civil challenge,' says US spy-tech biz

IT News 11 months ago

VanHelsing ransomware emerges to put a stake through your Windows heart - There's only one rule – don't attack Russia, duh Check Point has spotted a fresh ransomwa... -

VanHelsing ransomware emerges to put a stake through Windows

: There's only one rule – don't attack Russia, duh