Apple's big annual iPhone event is only a few days away and we'll soon find out exactly what the company has up its sleeve. In the meantime, the rumor mill is still churning away. The latest word on the street concerns the dual hole-punch cutouts that the iPhone 14 Pro is expected to have. According […]
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‘My eyes are now wide open’: Kanye West says he’s been ‘used’ and plans to quit politics
Kanye West said he’s “distancing himself from politics” to focus on creative work. West — a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump — said he’s been “used” to spread messages he doesn’t believe in. The fallout follows a dispute with Candace Owens, who said West designed a logo for “Blexit,” a movement to convince African-Americans […]
Trivial authentication bypass in libssh leaves servers wide open
Enlarge (credit: starwars.com) There’s a four-year-old bug in the Secure Shell implementation known as libssh that makes it trivial for just about anyone to gain unfettered administrative control of a vulnerable server. While the authentication-bypass flaw represents a major security hole that should be patched immediately, it wasn’t immediately clear what sites or devices were […]
Nobel Prizes still struggle with wide gender disparity
Nobel Prizes are the most prestigious awards on the planet but the aura of this year’s announcements has been dulled by questions over why so few women have entered the pantheon, particularly in the sciences.
Intel’s SGX blown wide open by, you guessed it, a speculative execution attack
Foreshadow explained in a video. Another day, another speculative execution-based attack. Data protected by Intel’s SGX—data that’s meant to be protected even from a malicious or hacked kernel—can be read by an attacker thanks to leaks enabled by speculative execution. Since publication of the Spectre and Meltdown attacks in January this year, security researchers have […]
The mysterious new ‘Fallout’ game is reportedly using the same survival formula that’s seen wide success in other online games
There was a time, around four or five years ago, when it seemed the only games that were being released followed the same formula: early access, open-world, and survival. Games like Day Z and Rust exploded almost overnight, and many copycats followed. The premise of an open-world survival game is relatively simple — you’re thrust […]
Silicon Valley’s pay gap between women and men in tech is so wide it increases the national average
All over the country, women across various industries are fighting for equal pay, and the tech industry is no exception. According to data from Statista, the average pay gap in the tech industry for cities across the US is about 16%, meaning that on average, women in tech get paid about 16% less than their […]
Internet: Top 10 facts about the World Wide Web
1. St Isidore, who was born around 560 and died on April 4, 636, compiled a 20-volume encyclopedia consisting of all the world’s knowledge. 2. He was proposed as patron saint of the internet in 1997 by Pope John Paul II, though that has never been officially ratified. 3. Some say the internet error message […]
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The father of the world wide web is one disappointed dad
Today is the World Wide Web’s 29th birthday, and to celebrate the occasion, its creator has told us how bad it’s become. In an open letter appearing in The Guardian, Tim Berners-Lee painted a bleak picture of the current internet — one dominated by a handful of colossal platforms that have constricted innovation and obliterated […]
