Day: October 13, 2021

America is Choking Under an ‘Everything Shortage’

The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive. The Atlantic: Is it just me, or does it feel like America is running out of everything? I visited CVS last week to pick up some at-home COVID-19 tests. They’d been sold out for a…


Space Age Road Rage: Right Of Way Above The Karman Line

On a dark night in 2006 I was bicycle commuting to my office, oblivious to the countless man made objects orbiting in the sky above me at thousands of miles per hour. My attention was instead focused on a northbound car speeding through a freeway underpass at dozens of miles per hour, oblivious to my…


Amazon copied products and manipulated search results in India, report says – CNET

The online retail giant has previously denied accusations it uses data from third-party sellers to develop its own products. …read more Source:: CNet


My AirPods 3 wishlist: All the upgrades I want Apple to make for its next-gen earbuds – CNET

Commentary: Apple’s AirPods 3 could debut at the company’s October event, and I still have a few features I hope to see. …read more Source:: CNet


Is that a meteorite crashing to Earth? No, it’s Chromebook makers coming back to reality

US market – where 70% Chromies are sold – nears saturation The march of the Chromebook looks to be over for now, at least in the United States, as consumers and students had their fill during the pandemic and are now buying far fewer machines.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Groups Launch ‘How To Stop Facebook’ Effort

A coalition of nonprofits on Wednesday debuted HowToStopFacebook.org, a fresh push to encourage greater government regulation of the social networking giant aimed at forcing the company to change its business model. From a report: The campaign hopes to take the outrage expressed by legislators over the revelations of whistleblower Frances Haugen and translate it into…


Brizy WordPress Plugin Exploit Chains Allow Full Site Takeovers

A stored XSS and arbitrary file-upload bug can be paired with an authorization bypass to wreak havoc. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Windows 11’s First Update Makes AMD CPU Performance Even Worse

AMD warned last week that its chips are experiencing performance issues in Windows 11, and now Microsoft’s first update to its new OS has reportedly made the problems worse. From a report: TechPowerUp reports that it’s seeing much higher latency, which means worse performance, after the Windows 11 update went live yesterday. AMD and Microsoft…


For Dell, being edgy now means single-node HCI without virtual storage, and rugged laptops

Is it really hyperconverged if it has vSphere but not VSAN? Big Mike says ‘yes’ Dell has made a play for the edge, with pretty much the same stuff it offers in most other places.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


DOOM Played By Tweet

Getting DOOM to run on hardware it was never intended to run on is a tradition as old as time. Old cell phones, embedded systems, and ancient televisions have all been converted to play this classic first-person shooter. This style of playing games on old hardware might be passé now as the new trend seems…