Here is the story of how the US “Secret Service tried to catch a hacker with a malware booby-trap”.
Spoiler alert:
“The attempt failed”.
Apple has warned “customers against closing their Mac notebooks with a cover over the camera as it can lead to display damage.”
That’s some fine designing work there, Lou.
The folks over at CNN are saying that President Trump has “confirmed the US conducted a covert cyberattack in 2018 against Russia’s Internet Research Agency”.
Reports are in that Foxconn is going to “invest $1 billion in India to move iPhone production from China”.
Here is a report on how “the internet is changing drastically for Hong Kong’s citizens”.
Reports are in that Sony “is investing $250 million into Fortnite maker Epic Games to purchase a minority stake in the company”.
Apparently the US Secret Service has created a “new Cyber Fraud Task Force” that will have a mandate “to investigate and defend American individuals and businesses from a wide range of cyber-enabled financial crimes”.
According to this report “repair techs are hacking ventilators with DIY dongles from Poland.”
This post says that Charter communications is raising its cable TV plans by $197 per year.
Let’s see how this stops their clients from “cutting the cord”.
Here is a report that says “last year, internet shutdowns took place in 33 countries and cost the global economy more than $8 billion”.
Reports are in from India that “a major crypto NEO Bank, Cashaa has lost 337 Bitcoin”.
Apparently cryptocurrency exchange “Coinbase is selling blockchain analytics software to the US Secret Service” because why the heck not:
Here is a look at Satoshi Nakamoto’s “vision for Bitcoin as told by its predecessors”.
This report says that “scammers made $24 million in bitcoin in the first half of 2020”.
But wait, there’s more: “they’re not slowing down anytime soon”
This post lists the “best Bitcoin and Blockchain documentaries in 2020”.
Linus Torvalds has approved “a new and more inclusive terminology for the Linux kernel code and documentation” .
Bonus content:
“Proposed alternatives for master/slave” and “proposed alternatives for blacklist/whitelist”.
Start checking in those old boxes of video games that you packed away back in the day if you want to get rich, someone just “paid a record $114,000 for a rare Super Mario Bros. video game”.
According to this post, Qualcomm is going to invest $97 million in a “top Indian telecom operator.”
Yesterday’s news:
Vinyl records to store music.
Today’s topic:
“vinyl-like super SSDs” to store data.
