Sunday, July 25, 2021
LATEST HEADLINES
- Microsoft shares mitigations for new PetitPotam NTML relay attackMicrosoft has released mitigations for the new PetitPotam NTLM relay attack that allows taking over…
- We just got our best-ever look at the inside of MarsNASA’s InSight robotic lander has just given us our first look deep inside a planet other than Earth. …
- Serial Swatter Who Caused Death Gets Five Years in PrisonA 18-year-old Tennessee man who helped set in motion a fraudulent distress call to police…
- Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a ‘street culture symphony,’ says directorBomb Rush Cyberfunk's director gave us some insight on how the game is a Jet… Read more »
- Robinhood CEO says the company is all-in on crypto and that users can expect new crypto features at 'some point'Summary List PlacementRobinhood CEO Vlad Tenev announced Saturday that crypto is a lynchpin of the… Read more »
- Aurora’s SPAC merger comes amid self-driving car delaysSelf-driving car startup Aurora is ready to go public in a reverse merger with SPAC… Read more »
- Google’s New Drive App Will Make It Easier to Sync Your Desktop FilesGoogle introduces a new Drive app that merges and replaces Backup and Sync with Drive… Read more »
- Platform PlayLAWPRO is the leading provider of professional indemnity insurance and services to thousands of providers… Read more »
- The DL on CockroachDBAs college students at Berkeley, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis created a successful open-source graphics… Read more »
- RESOLVED: Increased latency in North America Regions for Cloud Datastore queries. Previous posts mention Google Cloud Firestore, upon further analysis we believe this is incorrect. We have moved the incident to Cloud Datastore to correctly reflect impact.Incident began at 2021-07-07 14:25 and ended at 2021-07-07 16:40 (all times are US/Pacific).Mini Incident… Read more »
- In this week's top stories, the Olympic Games officially began in Tokyo. Here's how to… Read more »
- Cloudflare slams AWS egress fees to convince web giant to join its discount data clubLower your prices and play nicer, CDN goliath suggests Cloudflare on Friday accused competitor Amazon… Read more »
- At SDCC 2021, Creepshow Teases What to Expect From Season 3 of the Shudder HitCreepshow’s excellent second season arrived earlier this year, offering proof positive that the well-received first… Read more »
- Review: Old is a mostly solid film undermined by jarring twist endingDirector M. Night Shyamalan's latest film was inspired by a French graphic novel. Read more »
- Robinhood’s IPO roadshow answered questions I wasn’t askingIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge“What’s your favorite planet?” is a real question that… Read more »
- Porn Showed Up on Legit News Sites Thanks to Internet RotPlus: China's pipeline probing, a Chromebook debacle, and more of the week's top security news. Read more »
- How to Change Alexa's Voice on Amazon Echo, FinallySince its inception, Amazon Echo has featured a titular, feminine voice that became the identity… Read more »
- How To Prepare Your Organization For Transformation In A Post-COVID WorldIn Built to Last, management guru Jim Collins suggested that leaders should develop a “big…
- DHS Announces New Cybersecurity Requirements for Critical Pipeline Owners and OperatorsTransportation Security Administration issues second Security Directive WASHINGTON – Today, in response to the ongoing cybersecurity threat to… Read more »
- Kaseya obtains universal REvil decryptorThere’s finally some good news for the MSPs and their customers that have been hit… Read more »
GADGETS & GEAR
- Flashback: Sony Ericsson Satio and a look at how far camera phones have come in the last decadeThe Satio was Sony Ericsson’s first phone with a 12MP camera. It very nearly became… Read more »
- Brushed servo motors and mini-control boards from EMSBerkshire-based Electro Mechanical Systems (EMS) has samples of Nidec Servo’s DMN range brushed electric motors.… Read more »
- PCIe 4.0 SSD With Chinese 128L 3D TLC NAND Hits 7.5 GBpsChinese vendor Asgard has launched its new AN4 PCIe 4.0 SSD with YMTC's 128-layer 3D… Read more »
- Asus takes its Chromebooks upscale with new CX9, Flip CX5 laptopsHigh performance -- and price -- are the hallmarks of the new Chromebooks, with 11th-generation… Read more »
- PCIe 4.0 SSD With Chinese 128L 3D TLC NAND Hits 7.5 GBpsChinese vendor Asgard has launched its new AN4 PCIe 4.0 SSD with YMTC's 128-layer 3D… Read more »
- Asus takes its Chromebooks upscale with new CX9, Flip CX5 laptopsHigh performance -- and price -- are the hallmarks of the new Chromebooks, with 11th-generation… Read more »
- Best Internal Hard Drives: July 2021Data storage requirements have kept increasing over the last several years. While SSDs have taken… Read more »
- Best Internal Hard Drives: July 2021Data storage requirements have kept increasing over the last several years. While SSDs have taken… Read more »
YOUTUBE
ENTERTAINMENT & GAMING
- Blizzard Co-Founder And Former CEO Responds To Activision Blizzard Lawsuit, "I Am Extremely Sorry That I Failed You"
This past week, legal documents regarding a lawsuit from the state of California against Activision Blizzard surfaced. The lawsuit's details are graphic, disturbing, and detailed… Read more »
- Which classic characters and worlds need to make their Paper Mario debut?Cblogs of 7/17 to 7/23/2021 –Dinoracha reviews Paper Mario: The Origami King on the Nintendo Switch. –Black Red Gaming reviews... The post Which classic characters… Read more »
- Steam Client Update ReleasedA new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.Steam Cloud Fixed files being deleted from some games which have /../ path fragments… Read more »
- Loki Ending Explained: Who Is He Who Remains, a.k.a. Kang the Conqueror?
Who was the guy at the end of Loki Season 1? Here's everything you need to know about Kang the Conqueror, the iconic yet very… Read more »
- Someone Brought A Dream SMP Minecraft Flag To An Anti-Vax Rally
Today in London, a large a rally was held as part of a series of global gatherings against masks, vaccine passports, and lockdowns. And for… Read more »
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition Review Part 1: Mass Effect
The first chapter's remaster removes many – but not all – of the caveats from my strong recommendation to revisit BioWare's epic sci-fi RPG from… Read more »
- Two Magic designers walk into a tavern to discuss D&D cards
Image: Wizards of the CoastStay awhile and listen: Mark Rosewater held court at SDCC Before players came to learn that it was actually quite good,… Read more »
- Mortal Kombat Legends Writers Talk About How They Wanted Top Themselves For The Sequel
The sequel to Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge, Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of The Realms just debuted its first trailer last week and gave fans… Read more »
- Night of the Kings review – a heady Ivorian brew of fact and fantasy
Inspired by his own childhood, Philippe Lacôte’s hallucinogenic fable plays out inside a notorious Ivory Coast jail run by its own inmates…Of the three Ivory… Read more »
- Steam Deck 30 fps target is 'the floor of what we consider playable'A Deck developer at Valve says games have 'consistently met and exceeded that bar'. Read more »
- New Walking Dead trailer really shows off the series' iconic mean skeletons and G.I. Joe guys
It’s always a little disorienting checking back in on The Walking Dead—or, more properly, on a trailer for The Walking Dead—after a decent chunk of… Read more »