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To brighten the holiday season, Apple

To brighten the holiday season, Apple TV+ will provide special free streaming windows for nonsubscribers to enjoy the classic Peanuts holiday specials from Mendelson/Melendez Productions and Peanuts Worldwide. stheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown

RansomHub genius tries to put the squeeze on Delaware Libraries

Extorting underfunded public services for $1M isn't a good look Despite being top of the ransomware tree at the moment, RansomHub specifically, one of its affiliates clearly isn't that bright as they are reportedly trying to extort Delaware Libraries for around $1 million.

Hacker News: Google's Shift to Rust Programming Cuts Android Memory Vulnerabilities by 52%

The Register: CrowdStrike apologizes to Congress for 'perfect storm' that caused global IT outage

Google's Rust belts bugs out of Android, helps kill off substantial unsafe code

Memory safety flaws used to represent 76% of 'droid security holes. Now they account for 24% Google's effort to prioritize memory-safe software development over the past six years has substantially reduced the number of memory safety vulnerabilities in its Android operating system.

Legendary media player has made its source code available. They invite other developers to contribute to the project.


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Le lecteur multimdia lgendaire Winamp rend son code source disponible. Ils invitent dautres dveloppeurs contribuer au projet.

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The early bird gets a touch of nostalgia as Ubuntu 24.10 hits beta

Fun retro tweaks, App Center facelift, and more as Oracular Oriole moves into view The beta version of Ubuntu 24.10 has just come out, with GNOME 47 as its default desktop and some fun retro touches.

De iconische Winamp-mediaspeler heeft een belofte gedaan in mei en heeft zijn volledige broncode vrijgegeven op GitHub, waarbij ontwikkelaars worden uitgenodigd om samen te werken aan het project.
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ESA spending 17M on spacecraft just to watch it go up in flames

DRACO will be born to die in the fires of atmospheric re-entry The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Spanish company Deimos Space a contract for a spacecraft whose sole purpose is to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere so engineers can see what happens.

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'the IT failures of Jurassic Park'

...and how better investing in and greater source deployment could have spared the lives of Dennis Nedry and Ray Arnold!

Hacker News: Mozilla Faces Privacy Complaint for Enabling Tracking in Firefox Without User Consent

The Register: US may exempt chip giants' billion-dollar fabs from some rules, but the laws of physics still apply

De iconische Winamp-mediaplayer heeft een belofte uit mei waargemaakt om open-source te gaan en heeft nu zijn volledige broncode gepubliceerd op GitHub.
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US may exempt chip giants' billion-dollar fabs from some rules, but the laws of physics still apply

AC/DC: America's power grid might need to brace itself Analysis  The multibillion-dollar gamble of Intel and other semiconductor industry players on US-based chipmaking is shaking a lot more than just technological trees it seems set to give America's power infrastructure a bit of a headache.

I love how my is so bad that it got a 4.5 on readability according to an anonymous classmate peer-grading my unit test paper in Level 3 (I got 16/24!)

welcome to the "Information" Age (of Folly).

This is surreal.

Campaigners claim 'Privacy Preserving Attribution' in Firefox does the opposite

Tracking alternative is less invasive than other methods, but is opt out by default Privacy activist group noyb has filed a complaint against Mozilla over a "Privacy Preserving Attribution" feature that was quietly enabled in the Firefox browser following a July update.

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Hacker News: Cybersecurity Researchers Warn of New Rust-Based Splinter Post-Exploitation Tool

The Register: Apple ropes off 4 GB of iPhone storage to house AI models

Apple ropes off 4 GB of iPhone storage to house AI models

Carve-out expected to get larger over time, too Apple's on-device AI model, dubbed Apple Intelligence, will require 4 GB of device storage space, and more at a later date. That's about the size of an HD movie, for now.

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Google files first ever complaint with European Commission against Microsoft

Mountain View versus Redmond: Fight over cloud software licensing policies gets formal Google Cloud Platform has filed a complaint with the European Commission alleging Microsoft software licensing policies are anti-competitive, including claims customers are being charged four times more to run Windows Server in no

I think both and I are getting the better side of the deal when they kept blocking me from connecting to one of my systems all day, due to saying it's professional use.

I'm now running all my local systems through a locally hosted

They don't need to deal with me adding server costs and I don't need to deal with their blocking me out.

If they had a reasonable private subscription tier I might have taken it years ago. This is better. Thanks to the team!

Northern Ireland cops whose info was leaked in 2023 may get 240M+ damages

Officers put in danger when republican dissidents grabbed hold of their names and details Police officer victims have yet to receive any compensation after a document was mistakenly published in 2023 containing data belonging to members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, but reports say damages in the

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Hacker News: Agentic AI in SOCs: A Solution to SOAR's Unfulfilled Promises

from where I am brewing my own coffee LIKE A PEASANT because I have to leave early for the datacenter to inventory several pallets of new gear, oh what a glamorous life I lead.

The Register: Hyperscalers are carving up the ocean floor into private internet highways

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Hyperscalers are carving up the ocean floor into private internet highways

Think tank warns of sovereignty risks from subsea cable consolidation The dominance of US-based hyperscalers like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon in subsea cables has reshaped the industry and put critical infrastructure at risk, an Australian think tank claims.

Messaging app makers' dilemma: Keeping comms private and funding open source

After Telegram CEO was charged in France, Element bosses mull the challenges Interview  Not upsetting law enforcement with end to end encryption and finding a sustainable way to fund open source development are challenges facing messaging giants and minnows alike.

Fujitsu wins spot on 600M framework after vowing to sit out public sector

Post Office scandal What scandal Fujitsu has won a place on a UK tech framework worth up to 600 million ($802 million) despite promising not to bid for public sector contracts while its role in the Post Office Horizon scandal faces scrutiny. The company says bidding for the deal took place before it made that

Hacker News: CISA Flags Critical Ivanti vTM Vulnerability Amid Active Exploitation Concerns

The Register: AI PCs will dominate shipments by 2026, but not because of demand








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