Android 14’s user-profile data bug seems indistinguishable from ransomware (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2670229 (!googlepixel)
Canada’s 84-year radio time check has stopped because of accuracy concerns | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
How a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug (arstechnica.com)
Thousands of WordPress sites have been hacked through tagDiv plugin vulnerability (arstechnica.com)
Colorful quantum dots snag 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations (arstechnica.com)
Clouds are the largest source of uncertainty in climate predictions....
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is home after a year in space | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Oldest Unity game developer group breaks up over lack of trust in the company (arstechnica.com)
3 iOS 0-days, a cellular network compromise, and HTTP used to infect an iPhone (arstechnica.com)
Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters (arstechnica.com)
Incomplete information included in recent disclosures by Apple and Google reporting critical zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation in their products has created a “huge blindspot” that’s causing a large number of offerings from other developers to go unpatched, researchers said Thursday.
Never-before-seen Linux backdoor is a Windows malware knockoff (arstechnica.com)
US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art (arstechnica.com)
North Korea-backed hackers target security researchers with 0-day (arstechnica.com)
Scientists find evidence that Vlad the Impaler shed bloody tears (arstechnica.com)
I try synthetic salmon and enter the “uncanny valley” of taste (arstechnica.com)
Want to have your genes tested? It might be genetic (arstechnica.com)
People in a genetic database have segments of DNA in common unexpectedly often.
Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc (arstechnica.com)
An Apple malware-flagging tool is “trivially” easy to bypass (arstechnica.com)
US real estate markets scramble following cyberattack on listings provider (arstechnica.com)
Next-gen OSDP was supposed to make it harder to break in to secure facilities. It failed. (arstechnica.com)
How an unpatched Microsoft Exchange 0-day likely caused one of the UK’s biggest hacks ever (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1258588...
Report: Apple buys every 3 nm chip that TSMC can make for next-gen iPhones and Macs (arstechnica.com)
TSMC is said to eat the cost of defective chips so it can keep Apple's business.
What’s going on with the reports of a room-temperature superconductor? (arstechnica.com)
“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale (arstechnica.com)
Honestly, fuck Chromebooks. You can install it yourself on some refurbished laptop and prevent e-waste. Or better yet install real Linux and embrace software freedom!