While they wrestle with the immediate danger posed by hackers today, US government officials are preparing for another, longer-term threat: attackers who are collecting sensitive, encrypted data now in the hope that they’ll be able to unlock it at some point in the future. MIT Technology Review reports: The threat comes from quantum computers, which…

[zorbash] came up with a great side project while designing a way to read notes and highlighted sections from e-books without having to use Good Reads or the Amazon tool: build a gadget to display a parade of quotes from favorite authors and their books. The project is called Brain because it’s built on an…

The bill includes $65 billion for broadband, which will expand internet access to more Americans and could help close the digital divide. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A tweak to the iPhone’s repairability that has been long prophesied and feared has finally come to pass, giving staggering new urgency for legislation that makes repair more accessible: The iPhone 13’s screen cannot be replaced without special software controlled by Apple. This is a devastating blow…

You want drone pics? We got ’em. …read more Source:: CNet

Two sticks dominate the plug-and-play streaming world — Amazon and Roku. We dig deep to help you choose the best one. …read more Source:: ZDNet

A modified consumer drone was used in an attack on an electrical substation in the US last year, according to a report from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and National Counterterrorism Center. New Scientist reports: The report, which is being circulated to law enforcement agencies in the US, highlights the incident at a substation…

Have you ever had a program crash before your main function executes? it is rare, but it can happen. When it does, you need to understand what happens behind the scenes between the time the operating system starts your program and your first line of code in main executes. Luckily [Patrick Horgan] has a tutorial…

Acceptto’s contextual behavior threat intelligence technology will help SecureAuth deliver AI-driven MFA and continuous password-less authentication, SecureAuth says. …read more Source:: DarkReading

A week on from its Connect conference, Meta is moving ahead with rebranding the Oculus Quest 2 as the Meta Quest 2. UploadVR reports: In last week’s keynote, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Meta is the new corporate company name for Facebook. Almost all individual services under the company’s umbrella, including Whatapp, Instagram and the…