Hector Martin, lead of Asahi Linux distribution for Apple Silicon, resigns, citing burnout, demanding users, and Linus Torvalds's handling of Rust integration
I fought the Torv and ... the Torv won — Hector Martin, project lead of Asahi Linux, resigned that project early Friday …
ESET researchers find the first UEFI bootkit designed specifically to target Linux systems, marking a shift in bootkits that previously focused on Windows
Article then proceeds to describe a toy GRUB wrapper bootkit that has nothing to do with UEFI firmware (other than running on UEFI systems like any other UEFI bootloader), does not persist in UEFI fir...
Google details the commercial spyware Hermit, used in Kazakhstan and Italy, targeting Android and iOS; the iOS version has six exploits, including two zero-days
Saturday, June 25, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: Dataminr Deeba Ahmed / HackRead : ISPs Helping Attackers Install Hermit Spyware on Smartphones- Google Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : Spyware ...
Apple debuts Mac Studio, designed like a taller Mac mini, with M1 Max or Ultra, front and back ports, up to 128GB of memory, and support for four 6K displays
here's what you get Tim Hardwick / MacRumors : Studio Display Supports 5th-Gen iPad Air, But Not the 4th-Gen or the iPad Mini 6 Jonny Evans / Apple Must : M1 Ultra benchmarks ship as analysts praise A...
Apple details M1 Ultra, replacing the M1 Max as the top M1 chip, with 114B transistors, 128GB of unified memory, 16 performance cores, and four efficiency cores
yet it looks like a single piece of silicon to software, so apps benefit from its [...] capabilities without requiring any additional work from developers” The mad lads actually did it?! Steve Trought...
As big financial industry players like Fidelity Investments push SEC to approve Bitcoin-linked ETFs, crypto lobbying efforts meet resistance from US lawmakers
A strong push by Wall Street to open up access to Bitcoin investment is meeting resistance from a bipartisan group of lawmakers … Tweets: @pinboard , @ryannegri , @pinboard , @marcan42 , @zachary , @t...
The Wikimedia Foundation is financially healthy and nearing a $100M endowment target five years ahead of schedule, yet fundraising appeals imply it's struggling
The site is way richer than it wants you to know. — The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the non-profit that owns Wikipedia … Tweets: @iansherr , @sub8u , @kaepora , @davidcovucci , @nixcraft , @marcan42...