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• Bad form: FBI server sending fake emails taken offline and fixed, no data impacted (zdnet.com)
  Far from complex, the sender manipulated a POST request to send an email from FBI infrastructure, and automated it.
• Wanna save money on a high-end laptop? Buy a Mac. (arstechnica.com)
  A MacBook Pro and a Dell laptop shoot out for the best value. Surprise...
• Famous P2P user fined in France (arstechnica.com)
  Anne-Sophie Lainnemé has become a French media celebrity after being sued for …
• TwelveSouth’s PowerBug turns outlets into wireless chargers. (theverge.com)
  Similar to Zens’ Wireless Charging Adapter, the $49.99 PowerBug delivers true wireless charging by plugging directly into an outlet without…
• TPG Telecom triples 5G coverage as standalone core launches (zdnet.com)
  Population coverage somewhere in the 60% range with the upper end at 85%, depending on how TPG measures it.
• Buy Mac software on Dec. 7 for charity (updated list) (arstechnica.com)
  Some Mac developers have gotten together to have a promotion on Thursday...
• Home Affairs launches new principles for critical technology supply chain security (zdnet.com)
  The federal government's Critical Technology Supply Chain Principles are designed to sit alongside laws that are currently under considerat…
• Chrome can now show you reviews of the store you’re browsing. (theverge.com)
  Click the icon to the left of a URL and you can see a star rating and an AI-generated summary of details about the store. “The description…
• Microsoft Edge transforms into an AI browser with new Copilot Mode (theverge.com)
  Microsoft is turning Edge into an AI-powered browser. A new Copilot Mode is now in testing that lets the AI assistant analyze your tabs and…
• UK and Ireland lead the world in WiFi hotspots per capita (arstechnica.com)
  The west leads the world in WiFi, both in numbers and per capita. But does …
• The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalypse (theverge.com)
  People across the United Kingdom are fighting a censored and partially inaccessible online landscape using VPNs and government petitions.
• Toshiba to split into three standalone businesses (zdnet.com)
  Infrastructure Service Co, Device Co, and Toshiba will be the new standalone businesses to be spun out from Toshiba as we know it.
• Water on Mars! (arstechnica.com)
  NASA has announced that Mars Global Surveyor has found compelling evidence for …
• The UK's red telephone boxes are disappearing. But some are getting a second life (zdnet.com)
  The UK's red telephone boxes are a reminder of when you called a place, not a person. And while many will go, some will get a another chanc…
• Testing DRM-free waters: EMI selling a few MP3s through Yahoo Music (arstechnica.com)
  Another label cautiously experiments with selling music in the un-DRM...
• SDCC 2025: the best trailers and biggest announcements (theverge.com)
  San Diego Comic-Con 2025 was light on big news from the likes of Marvel, but it did include Peacemaker, Star Trek, Star Wars, and Welcome t…
• Get great audio deals for a limited time during this pre-Black Friday sale (zdnet.com)
  There's never been a better time to find amazing bargains on the best audio equipment and we've got 20 products for you to consider.
• Microsoft starts rolling out Xbox age verification in the UK (theverge.com)
  Microsoft is starting to roll out Xbox age verification in the UK. Players will be prompted to verify their age to continue accessing Xbox…
• DiskWarrior 4 for Mac is out in Universal Binary (arstechnica.com)
  Alsoft comes out of the woodwork today with an entirely new version of …
• UK report: make format shifting and parody legal, don't extend musical copyrights (arstechnica.com)
  The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property has issued its final report in the …
• The Particle news app now has an AI-generated daily crossword puzzle. (theverge.com)
  The crosswords are “human-edited” and themed on “stories from current news,” according to a popup in the Particle app. There’s a leaderboar…
• When you give everyone in an auditorium a laser pointer, cool things happen (arstechnica.com)
  The Flaming Lips took an interesting approach to their light show, to the …
• Google committed a shocking act of decency (zdnet.com)
  This sort of attitude toward customers is so rare and so ridiculously, absurdly welcome.
• Massive study debunks link between cell phones, cancer (arstechnica.com)
  A major new study involving 420,000 Danes finds no increased risk of tumors or …
• Next-gen CDMA gets new name, promises high speeds (arstechnica.com)
  EVDO Rev. C is getting a new name, UMB. If it delivers the promised speeds, do …
• As technology skills demand grows, so does attention to low-code and no-code solutions (zdnet.com)
  Low code and no-code solutions are filling gaps that IT professionals are now too busy to fill.
• Trolling the arXiv for plagiarism (arstechnica.com)
  A computerized scan of the arXiv collection of pre-publication physics and …
• Your Whistle pet tracker will stop working next month (theverge.com)
  Whistle is being shut down after being acquired by Tractive but users can request a free replacement pet tracker.
• Nintendo sends advice to Wii owners: HOLD ON TIGHT! (arstechnica.com)
  Don't let go of your Wiimote, Nintendo urges consumers. Gee, thanks for the …
• Facebook is peddling a creepy new message from Meta. You may need to lie down (zdnet.com)
  There's self-confidence. And then there's the brazen ability to effortlessly insult.
• Did... did a guy just save a picture of a bird to a bird’s brain? (theverge.com)
  YouTube acoustic explorer Benn Jordan appears to have gotten a starling — a bird arguably better at mimicry than a parrot — to do that! He…
• Got a lot of devices to charge up? Suffering from charger clutter? You need a charging station (zdnet.com)
  The perfect way to organize, declutter and reduce on the number of chargers you have plugged in.
• What if we made a moon base and no one showed up? (arstechnica.com)
  NASA plans a moon base, but doesn't plan on getting any new help from the …
• Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare (theverge.com)
  Selfies were hacked and posted on 4chan. Now, private messages were breached.
• Tech Turkeys 2021: The worst products and services of the year (zdnet.com)
  It's time to give out awards to the tech products and services that didn't live up to their promises, suffered from overblown hype, or flat…
• Universal Acrobat Reader 8.0 out for the Mac (arstechnica.com)
  A month after releasing Acrobat 8 into the wild, Adobe has released Acrobat …
• Yet another Pixel 6A caught fire (theverge.com)
  A Pixel 6A owner says their device caught fire after applying Google’s mandatory update designed to reduce battery overheating, as reported…
• My new favorite unreleased toy: meet the Woodpixel (arstechnica.com)
  This is a great little toy for recreating videogame characters. Too bad it's …
• Security company faces backlash for waiting 12 months to disclose Palo Alto 0-day (zdnet.com)
  Randori has faced a barrage of criticism for its decision to wait one year to publish a notice about a vulnerability it found in 2020.
• Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit (theverge.com)
  Sony is suing Tencent to attempt to stop the release of Tencent’s Light of Motiram, which Sony describes as a “slavish clone” of its Horizo…
• RHEL 8.5 delivers key container improvements (zdnet.com)
  The latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is ready to run on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• Warner Bros. Discovery is becoming Warner Bros. and Discovery again (theverge.com)
  When Warner Bros. Discovery finishes its restructuring plan next year, the two “new” companies will be called Warner Bros. and Discovery Gl…
• A quick look at AMD's quad-core Barcelona (arstechnica.com)
  AMD demostrated their first quad-core silicon last week, and I take a brief …
• CISA warns of equipment vulnerabilities from multiple vendors (zdnet.com)
  CISA said the issues were found in equipment from Eclipse, eProsima, GurumNetworks, Object Computing, Inc. (OCI), Real-Time Innovations (RT…
• Why can't Sony blog? (arstechnica.com)
  Sony is doing a good job of providing PS3 updates, but why do we have to …
• Student creates a Mac tablet, simpler than one would think (arstechnica.com)
  I'm begining to think that some Mac users might want Apple to release a tablet …
• Samsung’s One UI 8 might shut down bootloader unlocking on Galaxy phones (theverge.com)
  Samsung’s One UI 8 update appears to block more users from unlocking their device’s bootloader, preventing them from installing custom soft…
• Ransomware experts question massive Pysa/Mespinoza victim dump (zdnet.com)
  The prolific ransomware group dumped more than 50 victim names onto its leak site this week.
• The controversial legal tactic The Trump Organization is using to take down fake merch (theverge.com)
  A lawsuit filed by The Trump Organization alleges sellers on Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and other platforms are selling “counterfeit” Trump mer…
• Potential pirates, not Vista, get cracked (arstechnica.com)
  There's a new file making the rounds on the web that is supposedly a crack for …