Commentary: The move was the kind of calculated risk he was known to take as a showman. …read more Source:: CNet

Commentary: My time in Sanctuary is at an end. …read more Source:: CNet

Could it be that Apple salespeople are targeting very specific customers when they get excited about iPhone 13? I don’t think I’m one of them. …read more Source:: ZDNet

This week the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced the JShelter project, “an anti-malware Web browser extension to mitigate potential threats from JavaScript, including fingerprinting, tracking, and data collection.” The browser add-on — supported by NLnet Foundation’s Next Generation Internet (NGI) Zero Privacy & Trust Enhancing Technologies fund — is currently “in development and the first…

When we use an electronic component, we have some idea of what goes on inside it. We know that inside a transistor there’s a little piece of semiconductor with a junction made from differently doped regions etched into it, and in a capacitor, there will be metalized plates on the surface of some kind of…

NFTs are taking over sports, media, art and more. But what are they? We’ll break it down. …read more Source:: CNet

These days, supply chain factors and high demand have made it incredibly difficult to lay one’s hands on a GPU. However, if you’re into older computers, you might find it hard to source old-school video cards too. Fear not, for [Dave’s Dev Lab] has been cooking up some experiments with a goal of eventually producing…

Bleeping Computer reports on Compound, “an Ethereum-based money market protocol that enables users to earn interest or borrow assets against collateral.” “Yesterday, due to an erroneous upgrade process, the decentralized finance platform ended up spilling out Ethereum assets worth $90 million to its users…” Compound’s founder Robert Leshner urged users who received these Compound tokens…

Got a couple of old DVD-RW drives lying around, just collecting dust? Of course you do. If not, you likely know where to find a pair so you can build this totally adorable and fully dangerous laser engraver for your desk. Check out the complete build video after the break. [Smart Tronix] doesn’t just tell…

In 1999 Los Angeles Times reporter Michael Hiltzik won a Pulitzer Prize. Now a business columnist for the Times, he writes that “new evidence undermines the COVID lab-leak theory — but the press keeps pushing it.” A paper posted online [in September] chiefly by researchers at France’s Institut Pasteur and under consideration for publication in…