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Phoronix staged “a showdown” between Firefox and Chrome, testing them both on an Intel Panther Lake laptop running Ubuntu 26.04.
JetStream 3.0 was announced at the end of March as the latest major web browser benchmark. This updated version of JetStr… Continue reading Firefox vs. Chrome: Which Performs Better on a Linux Laptop?
“Every single Star Trek series has been canceled…” reports ScreenRant. “There is “no Star Trek in production or greenlit for the first time in nearly a decade.”
While there were five active Star Trek series just a few years ago, Star Trek: Strange… Continue reading The End of ‘Star Trek’? Every Single Series Now Cancelled
Talking with [Tom Nardi] on the podcast this week, he mentioned his favorite kind of hack: the community-developed open-source firmware that can be flashed into a commercial product that has …read more Continue reading What’s Your Favorite Kind of Hack?
Windows Boot Manager (or BOOTMGR) is a key component of the boot process. It starts a system, displays the boot menu (for multi-boot or dual-boot scenarios), and loads the selected OS loader. However, some users have complained that Windows Boot Manage… Continue reading Windows Boot Manager not showing in BIOS in Windows 11
Google adds Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) to Chrome 146, using hardware keys to block infostealer use of stolen session cookies on Windows. Continue reading Google Chrome Update Disrupts Infostealer Cookie Theft
Yesterday, Bryan Lambert reported: Health care providers at Brockton Hospital are preparing to work off paper, not computers, for the next two weeks as the health care hub deals with an ongoing cybersecurity incident. The cybersecurity incident took m… Continue reading Brockton Hospital still dealing with aftermath of ransomware attack
Waveshare makes a nifty little ESP32-S3 based smartwatch product, but its firmware is apparently not to everyone’s liking. Specifically, it’s not to [infiniton] a.k.a [Bright_Warning_8406]’s liking, as they rewrote the …read more Continue reading Rust-y Firmware for Waveshare Smartwatch
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Trump administration has stepped up an effort to unmask a Reddit user who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). After failing to obtain information through a summons issued (PDF… Continue reading US Demands Reddit Unmask ICE Critic, Summons Firm To Grand Jury
With each new game console, there’s an effort to get around whatever restrictions exist to run your own software on it. In the case of the Nintendo Wii, the system …read more Continue reading Digging Into the Twilight Hack that Brought Us Wii Homebrew
Attackers briefly hijacked part of CPUID’s backend and swapped legitimate download links on its site with malware-laced ones. “The issue hit tools like HWMonitor and CPU-Z, with users on Reddit and elsewhere starting to notice something wasn’t right wh… Continue reading CPUID Site Hijacked To Serve Malware Instead of HWMonitor Downloads