An Apple malware-flagging tool is “trivially” easy to bypass (arstechnica.com)
ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y (arstechnica.com)
It looks like Google's long-running project to split up ChromeOS and its Chrome browser will be shipping out to the masses soon. Kevin Tofel's About Chromebooks has spotted flags that turn on the feature by default for ChromeOS 116 and up. 116 is currently in beta and should be live in the stable channel sometime this month....
The Kids Online Safety Act isn’t all right, critics say (US) (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1835889...
Illinois just made it possible to sue people for doxxing attacks (arstechnica.com)
States crack down on doxxing, but there's still no federal law.
After slow start, NOAA predicts rest of hurricane season to be “above normal” (arstechnica.com)
El Niño is developing slower than anticipated and the ocean is extremely warm.
Hydrogen-powered planes almost ready for takeoff (arstechnica.com)
Companies are readying hardware but differ dramatically in how they're testing it....
NASA’s Artemis II crew meets their Moonship (arstechnica.com)
Report: Apple buys every 3 nm chip that TSMC can make for next-gen iPhones and Macs -WASTE WASTE!!!! (arstechnica.com)
TSMC is said to eat the cost of defective chips so it can keep Apple's business. -WASTE WASTE WASTE -- Apple shitting on the planet making useless redundant products adding little, wasting everything!!!!!
“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale (arstechnica.com)
No security or feature updates, but selling as "new." I guess they need to switch to Linux if able..
Voyager 2 phones home and says everything is cool (arstechnica.com)
Dude, what are those humongous plasma waves in Jupiter’s atmosphere? (arstechnica.com)
There are waves on Jupiter, but not exactly the kind surfers can ride. These plasma waves are much more intense than anything that crashes onto a beach....
Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft keeps pushing toward repairability, now with Xbox controller parts (arstechnica.com)
End of the line for Russia and Ukraine’s partnership in rocketry (arstechnica.com)
A last gasp in a long-standing link between Russia and Ukraine in the field of rocketry could come this week in an unlikely place—the rural wetlands of eastern Virginia—halfway around the world from the battlefields where the nations' military forces are locked in a deadly conflict....
CherryBlos: Android malware steals user credentials using optical character recognition (arstechnica.com)
The malware, dubbed CherryBlos by researchers from security firm Trend Micro, has been embedded into at least four Android apps available outside of Google Play, specifically on sites promoting money-making scams. One of the apps was available for close to a month on Google Play but didn’t contain the malicious CherryBlos...
Namibian fairy circle debate rages on: Sand termites or Turing mechanism? [Updated] (arstechnica.com)
Study offers four-point rebuttal to 2022 claim that they're a kind of eco-Turing pattern.
US senator blasts Microsoft for “negligent cybersecurity practices” (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/795564...
How developers will test their apps before Vision Pro launches (arstechnica.com)
Apple opened up access to three ways to test apps on real hardware.
AlmaLinux says Red Hat source changes won’t kill its RHEL-compatible distro (arstechnica.com)
Red Hat made being a 1:1 clone hard. So AlmaLinux is pivoting and speeding up.
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2437896...
Attackers find new ways to deliver DDoSes with “alarming” sophistication (arstechnica.com)
Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988 (arstechnica.com)
FTC rewrites rules on Big Tech mergers with aim to ease monopoly-busting (arstechnica.com)
[Ars Technica] "Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon" (arstechnica.com)
Interesting rundown of the whole Meta/Threads/Fediverse situation so far. Not a lot of new information but might be a handy primer for curious newbies....
Florida malaria outbreak still going with local cases now at 7 (arstechnica.com)
Local officials are still working to apply insecticide by air, trucks, and crews.
