‘Death to Putin’? Meta’s mostly okay with that on its platform

Bunches of Amazon Fire tablets are back on sale today

Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) Today’s Dealmaster is headlined by a new round of deals on Amazon’s Fire HD tablets. While the deals don’t match the all-time lowest prices we saw around Black Friday and Cyber Monday, they are substantially below the typical street prices we see on Amazon for those in the market for a […]

Rocket Report: SpaceX plans a Falcon 9 flurry, Bill Gates buys into rockets

Enlarge / Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine hot-fire tests take place at the company’s facility in West Texas. (credit: Blue Origin ) Welcome to Edition 4. 26 of the Rocket Report! This will be the final edition of 2021 due to a forthcoming (and much-needed) holiday break. As I write this, NASA and the European Space […]

Researcher uses 600-year-old algorithm to crack crypto keys found in the wild

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Cryptographic keys generated with older software now owned by technology company Rambus are weak enough to be broken instantly using commodity hardware, a researcher reported on Monday. This revelation is part of an investigation that also uncovered a handful of weak keys in the wild. The software comes from a basic […]