Day: February 12, 2021

Facebook’s oversight board flooded with thousands of comments on Trump case – CNET

The social network indefinitely suspended Trump from its platform after the deadly Capitol Hill riot. …read more Source:: CNet


Apple will proxy Safe Browsing traffic on iOS 14.5 to hide user IPs from Google

iOS 14.5 is currently in beta. …read more Source:: ZDNet


VGA Without The Hassle, From Your PlayStation One

The original Sony PlayStation was a nifty console for its day; that grey box may have only had a 33 MHz MIPS processor and 4 MB of RAM, but for the early to mid 1990s its games were some of the best to be had. From the days when it would have sat under a…


Earth To Voyager 2: After a Year in the Darkness, We Can Talk To You Again

necro81 writes: Back in March 2020, NASA shut down the Australia dish in its Deep Space Network for repairs and upgrades. For the duration of the outage, NASA had no means for communicating with Voyager 2. From the NYTimes:On Friday, Earth’s haunting silence will come to an end as NASA switches that communications channel back…


‘Annoyingly Believable’ Tax Scam Targets Mobile Users

A well-crafted SMS phishing effort is harvesting personal data and credit-card details under the guise of offering tax refunds. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm Protest Nvidia’s Arm Acquisition

Some of the world’s largest technology companies are complaining to U.S. antitrust regulators about Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm because the deal will harm competition in an area of the industry that is vital to their businesses. Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm are among companies worried about the $40 billion deal and are asking antitrust officials…


Jay Z and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey want to make Bitcoin the ‘internet’s currency’ – CNET

They want to start development in Africa and India, where some cryptocurrencies have been banned. …read more Source:: CNet


Stunning Polestar 1 plug-in hybrid enters its last year of production – Roadshow

Just 150 more Polestar 1 coupes will come to North America. …read more Source:: CNet


2021 Polestar 1 isn’t long for this world – Roadshow

The Polestar 1 is in its final year of production, and only 150 are coming to North America. …read more Source:: CNet


Darknet Crypto Kingpin JokerStash Retires After Illicit $1 Billion Run

The kingpin or kingpins of the world’s biggest illicit credit card marketplace have retired after making an estimated fortune of over $1 billion in cryptocurrency, according to research by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic shared with Reuters. From the report: The “Joker’s Stash” marketplace, where stolen credit cards and identity data traded hands for bitcoin and…