Month: June 2021

Consumer Reports asked security experts to explain why cyber criminals are targeting Apple devices and what you can do about it. He noted the announcement last fall from five hackers who said they had discovered 55 Apple vulnerabilities, 11 of which were deemed critical, over a period of three months. As of October, the group…

Ouch! Older machines may not meet this requirement. UPDATE: There are now stories circulating that maybe only TPM 1.2 will be required. Hidden among the Windows 11 announcement today was a very odd, or at least surprising, system requirement. For Windows 11, all systems will need a TPM 2.0 chip. What the heck is a…

Another hack…this time with WD drives. Storage drive maker Western Digital is telling owners of its WD My Book Live device to disconnect it from the internet after reports that some have had their data erased by malicious software. For more, check out this Tripwire story.

Today, Microsoft unveiled Windows 11. You can watch the 45-minute presentation here.

Yikes…a Peloton flaw allows hackers to watch users. A new development regarding Peloton will have users thinking twice before mounting the workout machine. Users of Peloton’s Bike+ have been warned of a security threat which could allow hackers to control the touchscreen, steal information and even watch the user. To see more, check out this…

What happens to all those images once uploaded to the web? Povolny also noted that while people usually know of the risks associated with using apps that collect data, and specifically photos, they don’t always realize the full impacts of how that data might be used in the future. For more, check out this USA…

There’s something strange near our galaxy’s center. Some 25,000 light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a weird star that almost blinked out of existence for several months before reappearing. For more, check out this Science Alert story.

There’s a mystery brewing at the center of the Earth. using computer simulations of the core’s growth over the last billion years, a new study in the June 3 issue of Nature Geoscience offers a solution that finally seems to fit: Every year, little by little, Earth’s inner core is growing in a “lopsided” pattern,…

According to a recent study, meteorites appear to come from a single, unknown source. The research looked at more than 500 million years worth of marine sedimentary rock containing meteorites, examining 15 different windows of time and found that all originate in the asteroid belt, but it’s unclear where in the asteroid belt they’re coming…

Speed…we just can’t seem to get enough! On a product page outlining its 16Gb HBM2E, SK hynix has provided some insight into the attractions of HBM3, the next HBM standard. It says that SK hynix HBM3 is currently under development and “will be capable of processing more than 665GB of data per second at 5.2Gbps…