~hackernews | Bookmarks (480)

clear filters

arstechnica.com ×

YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked

arstechnica.com

YouTube is putting third-party ad-blocking apps on notice. An ominous post on the official YouTube Community...
YouTube is putting third-party ad-blocking apps on notice. An ominous post on the official YouTube Community Help forum titled "Enforcement on Third Party Apps" says the company is "strengthening our enforcement on third-party apps that violate YouTube’s Terms of Service, specifically ad-blocking apps." Google would...
1
How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2017)

arstechnica.com

Tens of millions of Winamp users are still out there. As many of us are busy...
Tens of millions of Winamp users are still out there. As many of us are busy crafting the perfect playlist for grilling outdoors, most likely such labor is happening on a modern streaming service or within iTunes. But during the last 15 years or so, that wasn't always the case. Today, we resurface our look at the gr...
1
Russian space chief says new rocket will put Falcon 9 reuse to shame

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / Vladimir Putin meets with Roscosmos Director General Yuri Borisov on June 30, 2023. Russia's...
Enlarge / Vladimir Putin meets with Roscosmos Director General Yuri Borisov on June 30, 2023. Russia's once-vaunted launch industry has been much in decline due to a combination of factors, including an aging fleet of rockets, a reduction in government investment, and the country's war in Ukraine driving away Wester...
1
The rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / What might have been. February 1, 2023: One of the most tragic events in...
Enlarge / What might have been. February 1, 2023: One of the most tragic events in the history of space exploration is the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and all seven of her crew on February 1, 2003—a tragedy made worse because it didn’t have to happen. But just as it is human nature to look to the future and w...
1
Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M

arstechnica.com

Federal prosecutors indicted a Nebraska man on charges he perpetrated a cryptojacking scheme that defrauded two...
Federal prosecutors indicted a Nebraska man on charges he perpetrated a cryptojacking scheme that defrauded two cloud providers—one based in Seattle and the other in Redmond, Washington—out of $3.5 million. The indictment, filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of New York and unsealed on Monday, charge...
1
Kansas couple sues MaxMind for turning their life into a "digital hell" (2016)

arstechnica.com

Ever since James and Theresa Arnold moved into their rented 623-acre farm in Butler County, Kansas,...
Ever since James and Theresa Arnold moved into their rented 623-acre farm in Butler County, Kansas, in March 2011, they have seen “countless” law enforcement officials and individuals turning up at their farm day and night looking for links to alleged theft and other supposed crime. All of these people are arriving ...
1
SpaceX's most-flown reusable rocket will go for its 20th launch tonight

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket rolling out of its hangar at Cape...
Enlarge / File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket rolling out of its hangar at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. For the first time, SpaceX will launch one of its reusable Falcon 9 boosters for a 20th time Friday night on a flight to deliver 23 more Starlink Internet satellites to orbit. This milestone mission is...
1
Judge halts Texas probe into Media Matters' reporting on X

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)...
Enlarge / Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on February 23, 2024. A judge has preliminarily blocked what Media Matters for America (MMFA) described as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's attempt to "rifle through" confidential documents...
1
Tesla to lay off more than 10 percent of its workers as sales slow

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / Tesla's Shanghai factory in 2023. Times are starting to get tough for Tesla. The...
Enlarge / Tesla's Shanghai factory in 2023. Times are starting to get tough for Tesla. The electric vehicle automaker had been riding high, with quarter after quarter of successive growth and plenty of profits in the process. But lately, that success has mostly been due to a series of price cuts meant to tempt custo...
1
Framework's software and firmware have been a mess, but it's working on them

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 13. Since Framework showed off its first prototypes in February 2021,...
Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 13. Since Framework showed off its first prototypes in February 2021, we've generally been fans of the company's modular, repairable, upgradeable laptops. Not that the company's hardware releases to date have been perfect—each Framework Laptop 13 model has had quirks and flaws that ran...
1
Sleeping more flushes junk out of the brain

arstechnica.com

As if we didn’t have enough reasons to get at least eight hours of sleep, there...
As if we didn’t have enough reasons to get at least eight hours of sleep, there is now one more. Neurons are still active during sleep. We may not realize it, but the brain takes advantage of this recharging period to get rid of junk that was accumulating during waking hours. Sleep is something like a soft reboot. W...
1
Report details how Russia obtains Starlink terminals for war in Ukraine

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / A Starlink terminal at the Everything Electric London conference on March 28, 2024 in...
Enlarge / A Starlink terminal at the Everything Electric London conference on March 28, 2024 in England. A report published today describes how Russia obtained Starlink terminals for its war in Ukraine despite US sanctions and SpaceX's insistence that Russia hasn't bought the terminals either directly or indirectly....
1
Google kills "One" VPN service

arstechnica.com

Another day, another dead Google product. The Google One VPN service we complained about last week...
Another day, another dead Google product. The Google One VPN service we complained about last week is headed to the chopping block. Google's support documents haven't been updated yet, but Android Authority reported on an email going out to Google One users informing them of the shutdown. 9to5Google also got confirm...
1
The Space Force is planning what could be the first military exercise in orbit

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / Artist's illustration of two satellites performing rendezvous and proximity operations in low-Earth orbit. The...
Enlarge / Artist's illustration of two satellites performing rendezvous and proximity operations in low-Earth orbit. The US Space Force announced Thursday it is partnering with two companies, Rocket Lab and True Anomaly, for a first-of-its-kind mission to demonstrate how the military might counter "on-orbit aggressi...
1
"Highly capable" hackers root corporate networks by exploiting firewall 0-day

arstechnica.com

Highly capable hackers are rooting multiple corporate networks by exploiting a maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability in a...
Highly capable hackers are rooting multiple corporate networks by exploiting a maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability in a firewall product from Palo Alto Networks, researchers said Friday. The vulnerability, which has been under active exploitation for at least two weeks now, allows the hackers with no authenticat...
1
X to stop hiding blue checks after widely handing them out to top users

arstechnica.com

X will soon stop allowing users to hide their blue checkmarks, and some users are not...
X will soon stop allowing users to hide their blue checkmarks, and some users are not happy. Previously, a blue tick on Twitter was a mark of a notable account, providing some assurance to followers of the account's authenticity. But then Elon Musk decided to start charging for the blue tick instead, and mayhem ensu...
1
Researchers find a new organelle evolving

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / A photo of Braarudosphaera bigelowii with the nitroplast indicated by an arrowhead. The complex...
Enlarge / A photo of Braarudosphaera bigelowii with the nitroplast indicated by an arrowhead. The complex cells that underlie animals and plants have a large collection of what are called organelles—compartments surrounded by membranes that perform specialized functions. Two of these were formed through a process ca...
1
Intel's "Gaudi 3" AI accelerator chip may give Nvidia's H100 a run for its money

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / An Intel handout photo of the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. On Tuesday, Intel revealed...
Enlarge / An Intel handout photo of the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. On Tuesday, Intel revealed a new AI accelerator chip called Gaudi 3 at its Vision 2024 event in Phoenix. With strong claimed performance while running large language models (like those that power ChatGPT), the company has positioned Gaudi 3 as an altern...
1
Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills, disappointing dozens

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / The 4th-gen Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker. Alexa hasn't worked out the way Amazon...
Enlarge / The 4th-gen Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker. Alexa hasn't worked out the way Amazon originally planned. There was a time when it thought that Alexa would yield a robust ecosystem of apps, or Alexa Skills, that would make the voice assistant an integral part of users' lives. Amazon envisioned tens of thousand...
1
Elon Musk's X botched an attempt to replace "twitter.com" links with "x.com"

arstechnica.com

Enlarge / An X sign at company headquarters in San Francisco. Elon Musk's clumsy brand shift...
Enlarge / An X sign at company headquarters in San Francisco. Elon Musk's clumsy brand shift from Twitter to X caused a potentially big problem this week when the social network started automatically changing "twitter.com" to "x.com" in links. The automatic text replacement reportedly applied to any URL ending in "t...
1
Hackable Intel and Lenovo hardware went undetected for 5 years

arstechnica.com

Hardware sold for years by the likes of Intel and Lenovo contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability...
Hardware sold for years by the likes of Intel and Lenovo contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability that will never be fixed. The cause: a supply chain snafu involving an open source software package and hardware from multiple manufacturers that directly or indirectly incorporated it into their products. Research...
1
Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites

arstechnica.com
1
How to cheat at Super Mario Maker and get away with it for years

arstechnica.com

The Frankenstein's monster of a GamePad hack responsible for the creation of Trimming the Herbs. A...
The Frankenstein's monster of a GamePad hack responsible for the creation of Trimming the Herbs. A cardboard box provides the inelegant case for Ahoyo's Arduino-and-breadboard TAS solution. Close-up of the Arduino connections necessary to control the Wii U GamePad. Ribbon cables feed into holes cut through the back ...
1
AT&T: Data breach affects 73M or 51M customers. No, we won't explain

arstechnica.com

AT&T is notifying millions of current or former customers that their account data has been compromised...
AT&T is notifying millions of current or former customers that their account data has been compromised and published last month on the dark web. Just how many millions, the company isn't saying. In a mandatory filing with the Maine Attorney General’s office, the telecommunications company said 51.2 million account h...
1

~hackernews | Bookmarks (480)

Domains