438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
A Short History of Recovery in macOS
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Howard Oakley: For the first ten years of Mac OS X, its closest substitute was Single User Mode, or SUM, entered by starting the Mac up with the Command and S keys held down. OS X then booted into the command line, where you could for example repair your startup volume[…] […] With Mac OS […]
Time to Back Up Bandcamp
David Rutland (via Hacker News): If you’ve spent your hard earned cash supporting independent artists through Bandcamp, a series of ownership changes and layoffs suggest that now might be the best time for audiophiles to download their audio files to secure offline storage.[…]According to Aftermath, Bandcamp is a mess right now, with most of the […]
Google Pays to Be Default on Samsung Phones
Adamya Sharma: The ongoing Google vs. Epic trial has brought out another interesting piece of information. As per testimony presented by Epic Games (via Bloomberg), Google paid Samsung $8 billion over a period of four years to keep Search, Assistant, and Play Store as default services on Samsung phones.[…]One internal document also shows how Google […]
Tata Code Theft
Richard Speed (via Hacker News): A jury has sided with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) against Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) over the theft of source code and documentation. A total of $210 million was this week awarded.According to the verdict [PDF], a Texas jury agreed that TCS had “willfully and maliciously” misappropriated both source and confidential […]
NVIDIA Sued for Stealing Trade Secrets
Mariella Moon (via Hacker News): NVIDIA is facing a lawsuit filed by French automotive company Valeo after a screensharing blunder by one of its employees. According to Valeo’s complaint, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, an engineer for NVIDIA who used to work for its company, had mistakenly showed its source code files on his computer as he was […]
Cavium Networking Hardware May Contain Backdoor
Bruce Schneier: Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Stefania Maurizi: Communication in a world of pervasive surveillance is a public document and has been downloaded over 18,000 times since March 2022 when it was first published.[…]In 2013, Jacob Appelbaum published a remarkable […]
Data Analytical Services (DAS)
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra (Hacker News): A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter Wired obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality. According to the letter, […]
Section 24220: Advanced Impaired Driving Technology
Jon Miltimore (Hacker News): “Marketed to Congress as a benign tool to help prevent drunk driving, the measure will mandate that automobile manufacturers build into every car what amounts to a ‘vehicle kill switch,’” wrote Barr, who was the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president in 2008.[…]To my relief, I saw several fact-checkers at legacy institutions […]