Plus, bigger savings on the big, 16-inch MacBook Pro. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader writes: The fact that Apple is moving away from Intel to ARM has been making a lot of headlines recently — but that’s not the only new place where ARM CPUs have been making a splash. ARM has also been turning heads in High Performance Computing (HPC), and an ARM-based system is…

Retailers have instituted enhanced cleaning procedures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with an aim to keep frequently touched surfaces as clean as possible. Certainly one of the most commonly handled objects in the entire store is the payment terminal by the register, and the PIN pad specifically. Which is why [Josh Starnes] is working…

“Cloudflare, an internet service that is supposed to keep websites up and running, was down itself Sunday, taking dozens of websites and online services along with it,” reports CNN: Hulu, the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Feedly, Discord, and dozens of other services reported connectivity problems Sunday morning. Cloudflare said the problem was with a third-party…

Phoronix reports: As mentioned back in July, upstream Linux developers have been working to figure out a path for adding Rust code to the Linux kernel. That topic is now being further explored at this week’s virtual Linux Plumbers Conference… To be clear though, these Rust Linux kernel plans do not involve rewriting large parts…

Play continues Sunday after players boycotted games in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Wisconsin. …read more Source:: CNet

BuzzFeed News reports: In a companywide meeting on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that a militia page advocating for followers to bring weapons to an upcoming protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, remained on the platform because of “an operational mistake.” The page and an associated event inspired widespread criticism of the company after a 17-year-old…

Plenty of people don’t bother to read the current newspaper, let alone editions that were published over 100 years ago. But there’s a wealth of important historical information buried in these dusty old publications, assuming you can find a way to reliably digitize and index it all. You might think the solution is as simple…

Based around the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card, the Starter PC is designed for those who are looking to dip their toe into the gaming PC water without breaking the bank. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Krebs on Security tells the tale of Hieu Minh Ngo, who earned $3 million by selling the identity records he’d stolen from consumer data brokers (which included social security numbers and physical addresses). “He was selling the personal information on more than 200 million Americans,” one secret service agent tells the site, “and allowing anyone…