Enlarge / The fallout of an OpenSSL vulnerability, initially listed as “critical,” should be much less severe than that of the last critical OpenSSL bug, Heartbleed. reader comments 19 with 17 posters participating Share this story An OpenSSL vulnerability once signaled as the first critical-level patch since the Internet-reshaping Heartbleed bug has just been patched.… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 88 with 77 posters participating Share this story Apple released iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1 to the public last week, with a long list of new features, fixes, and high-priority zero-day security updates. The updates also included the latest version of SKAdNetwork, Apple’s ad services framework for the… Read More »
Enlarge / An Open Connect Appliance server from around 2013 that a Redditor acquired. reader comments 90 with 61 posters participating Share this story A Reddit user named PoisonWaffe3 recently acquired a 2013-era Netflix cache server that had been pulled from service and wiped for disposal, which marks a rare occasion the public has been… Read More »
Enlarge / The default wallpaper for macOS 11 Big Sur. reader comments 56 with 29 posters participating Share this story Earlier this week, Apple released a document clarifying its terminology and policies around software upgrades and updates. Most of the information in the document isn’t new, but the company did provide one clarification about its… Read More »
Enlarge / A billboard showing Windows 8 in Times Square in New York at the Microsoft Store in October 2012. Personal photo from Steven Sinofsky reader comments 144 with 95 posters participating Share this story On October 26, 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8, a hybrid tablet/desktop operating system that took bold risks but garnered mixed… Read More »
Enlarge / Palette.fm does AI photo colorization using text prompts for refinement. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 34 with 27 posters participating Share this story A Swedish machine learning researcher named Emil Wallner has released a free web tool called Palette.fm that automatically colorizes black-and-white photos using AI. After uploading a photo, users… Read More »
Enlarge / Microsoft 365 will encompass Teams, OneDrive, and the suite of productivity apps formerly known as Office. reader comments 122 with 83 posters participating, including story author Share this story Microsoft Office was first released in 1990, and aside from Windows, it’s probably the Microsoft product the general public has the most experience with.… Read More »
Andrew Cunningham reader comments 86 with 59 posters participating Share this story Intel is planning its first major layoffs in almost six years, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The report says that layoffs will “likely” affect thousands of its 113,700 employees, particularly in its sales and marketing departments, and that they could happen… Read More »
Enlarge / Unsurprisingly, getting a standard amd64-based Linux image installed as a virtual machine on an ARM-based Mac results in sadness. Kevin Purdy reader comments 29 with 24 posters participating, including story author Share this story Nearly four years after its last major release, VirtualBox 7.0 arrives with a… host of new features. Chief among… Read More »
Enlarge / Matter promises to make smart home devices work with any control system you want to use, securely. This marketing image also seems to promise an intriguing future involving smart mid-century modern chairs and smart statement globes. reader comments 65 with 44 posters participating, including story author Share this story The specification for Matter… Read More »