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Is Apple’s most affordable laptop ever also one of its most repairable? We’re loving the screwed-in battery.

Is Apple’s most affordable laptop ever also one of its most repairable? We’re loving the screwed-in battery.

iFixit

ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was “God’s assassin,” DOJ says

Podcaster faces up to 70 years and a $3.5 million fine for ChatGPT-linked stalking.

„Winter Trees I“ (2025)
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📍#Weissenstein (SO), #Switzerland

(19 Nov) Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size

“I worry this is the big botnet flexing,” CEO said. But outage was self-inflicted.

(31 Oct) FCC to rescind ruling that said ISPs are required to secure their networks

FCC chair to rely on ISPs’ voluntary commitments instead of Biden-era ruling.

(14 Oct) Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”

Scams like this one net billions from well-educated victims.

#bitcoin #biz-&-it #federal-indictments #online-scams #pig-butchering #policy

(13 Oct) Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement

New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.

#biz-&-it #diffie-hellman-elliptic-curve #features #ml-kem #module-lattice-based-key-encapsulation-mechanism #security #signal-messenger

(08 Oct) ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all

ISPs complained about Biden-era rule, said listing every fee was too hard.

(10 Sep) Court rejects Verizon claim that selling location data without consent is legal

Verizon and T-Mobile lost, but AT&T beat the FCC. SCOTUS may have to step in.