438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Operation Triangulation Details
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Dan Goodin (Hacker News): Researchers on Wednesday presented intriguing new findings surrounding an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which belonged to employees of Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky. Chief among the discoveries: the unknown attackers were able to achieve an unprecedented level of access by exploiting a […]
The New York Times Sues OpenAI
Emma Roth (Hacker News): The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming the two companies built their AI models by “copying and using millions” of the publication’s articles and now “directly compete” with its content as a result.As outlined in the lawsuit, the Times alleges OpenAI and Microsoft’s large language […]
Crashing iPhones With a Flipper Zero
Dan Goodin (via Bruce Schneier): To van der Ham’s surprise and chagrin, the same debilitating stream of pop-ups hit again on the afternoon commute home, not just against his iPhone but the iPhones of other passengers in the same train car. He then noticed that one of the same passengers nearby had also been present […]
SpamSieve 3.0.3
SpamSieve 3.0.3 is another maintenance update. The main focus is working around various cases where Apple Mail doesn’t behave properly, resulting in hangs or messages not being filtered or trained. Some interesting bugs were: Some customers were seeing a crash when SpamSieve updated its Dock icon badging. It turns out that setting NSApplication.applicationIconImage will throw […]
Apple Music Replay’s Broken Record
Joe Rosensteel: The tile implores you to “Replay and share your year in music.” In tiny text, seemingly indicating shame or remorse, it says “Go to site”. You see, the Apple Music app - and iTunes before it - are largely glorified markup viewers, but for whatever reason, the Music app still can’t display Apple […]
GitMounter
Julia Evans: has anyone made a read-only FUSE filesystem for a git repository where every commit is a folder and the folder contains all the files in that commit? Jordan Rose: And I did in fact do something very like that, back when I was playing with FUSE! But I never put it up anywhere […]
Just Get a Brother
ifixcoinops (via Hacker News): Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going “Just get a Brother, they’re fine” and manMANLike this is actually kinda fascinating honestly, Brother is now the best printer brand, the one that every Computer Person recommends, and is it because their printers are […]
Beeper’s Final Fixes and Government Investigations
Juli Clover: On Reddit, the Beeper Mini team says that the Mac-based fix coming on December 20 stabilizes iMessage for Beeper Cloud and Mini, and it “works well” and “is very reliable.”[…]Beeper has been using its own Mac servers to provide that information to Apple, but that resulted in thousands of Beeper users having the […]