Freenode currently ranges between roughly 75,000 and 90,000 users—that’s a far cry from the 240,000 users fellow IRC network QuakeNet had back in 2005, but it’s still quite a lot of people. (credit: netsplit.de) Freenode has been the world’s largest IRC network since 2013, with roughly three times as many users as its closest competitor, IRCnet. […]
Enlarge (credit: CHUYN / Getty Images) Malicious hackers have been exploiting a vulnerability in fully updated versions of macOS that allowed them to take screenshots on infected Macs without having to get permission from victims first. The zeroday was exploited by XCSSET, a piece of malware discovered by security firm Trend Micro last August. XCSSET […]
Enlarge / The 2020 iPhone lineup. From left to right: iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12, iPhone SE, and iPhone 12 mini. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple released a plethora of operating system updates today, including iOS 14.6, iPadOS 14.6, tvOS 14.6, watchOS 7.5, and macOS Big Sur 11.4. Generally, today’s software updates […]
Enlarge / iFixit appears in Samsung’s original upcycling video. (credit: Samsung) Lost in the hubbub of Google I/O last week was this blog post from Kevin Purdy of iFixit, which tells the inside story of how Samsung announced a “revolutionary” upcycling program in 2017, delayed it for years, and eventually gutted it before shipping a […]
Virtual Google I/O! It’s just like the real thing. Most of those little characters are real people. [credit: Ron Amadeo ] Google I/O was this past week, and while there were still the usual announcements and information dump, the pandemic made the show online-only. Normally, people from across the world descend upon the Shoreline Amphitheater […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A crime forum is holding a quasi-judicial proceeding against the makers of DarkSide, the ransomware that shut down Colonial Pipeline two weeks ago, to hear claims from former affiliates who say the makers skipped town without paying. Or, at least that’s what members of crime forum XSS.is want us all to […]
The key to Mach.2’s increased performance is a second set of actuator arms, which can be positioned independently from the first set. Essentially, this makes a Mach.2 “two drives in one chassis.” (credit: Seagate) Seagate has been working on dual-actuator hard drives—drives with two arms and read/write heads per platter—for several years. Its first production […]
Enlarge / A man uses a 24-inch orange iMac. (credit: Apple) Several new Apple products announced earlier this month are now available for sale and shipping at the Apple Store and various other retailers. The new products include the new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models, a revised Apple TV 4K, a completely redesigned iMac […]
The Pixel 6 Pro has three cameras and a curved screen. The Pixel 6 leaks are coming in fast and furious. After leaker Jon Prosser debuted the new Pixel 6 design last week, another source has come forward corroborating the design: OnLeaks. The venerable leaker has produced renders for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 […]
Enlarge / Tim Cook speaks during an event at Lane Technical College Prep High School in Chicago on Tuesday, March 27, 2018. (credit: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Tim Cook will on Friday be confronted with allegations that Apple is operating an illegal monopoly, in a high-stakes case brought by Epic Games, the maker of […]