March 14 isn’t just Pi Day. It also has a surprising history of famous births, the death of physicist Stephen Hawking and a milestone for a daring dirigible. …read more Source:: CNet

Google and Microsoft engineers might collaborate on the Chromium browser code, but that hasn’t stopped corporate politics between the pair. From a report: Google has launched a scathing attack on Microsoft today, accusing it of trying “to break the way the open web works in an effort to undercut a rival.” Google is upset about…

A legitimate binary for creating shortcut keys in Windows is being used to help the malware sneak past defenses, in a rash of new campaigns. …read more Source:: Threatpost

iFixit’s flagship autopsy finds glue. Lots of glue iFixit – an organisation with a toddler-like proclivity for breaking phones – today published its teardown of Samsung’s latest and greatest: the Galaxy S21 Ultra.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams riff on the week’s most interesting hacks. It’s hard to imagine a more perfect piece of art than an original Pong circuit board mounted in a shadow box and playable along with some tasty FPGA tricks to capture the original look of the screen. You could make a…

Google Chrome version 89 began rolling out to users in the stable channel on March 2 and should be on most people’s machines by now. From a report: The new build offers significant memory savings on 64-bit Windows platforms thanks to increased use of Google’s PartitionAlloc memory allocator. On macOS, Chrome 89 plays catch-up and…

In an op-ed, the Republican senator says he stands with workers at the Bessemer, Alabama warehouse. …read more Source:: CNet

Republican senators asked why the e-commerce giant removed a 2018 book. …read more Source:: CNet

Plus, save 50% on this totally unique dual-head massage gun. …read more Source:: CNet

Pakistan has banned TikTok again in the country after reviewing a complaint that said the popular video app hosted immoral and objectionable content. From a report: A high court in the city of Peshawar on Thursday ordered the nation’s telecom authority — Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) — to ban TikTok. In a statement Thursday evening,…