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Researchers at security firm Volexity have discovered a new attack on Gmail that bypasses passwords and 2FA to read all mail. North Korean hacker group SharpTongue (linked to the Kimsuky APT group) has deployed a malicious program called SHARPEXT to steal Gmail and AOL emails from Chromium-based browsers including Chrome, Edge, and South Korea’s Whale. […]

Static website generator Docusaurus has released v2.0 version . The release took four years of development, during which 75 alpha and 22 beta versions were released. The developers said they plan to release major updates faster in the future. Docusaurus is an open source project by Facebook (today called Meta) designed to allow users to

After the release of Linux 5.19, whether the next version will be called Linux 5.20 or Linux 6.0, Linus Torvalds, who is often confused by big numbers, said that the next version will be called 6.0. This approach is similar to before the next release of Linux 3.19 was Linux 4.0 and the next release

As the US Congress passes the chip bill, one notable phenomenon is the flood of incentives for chip manufacturing around the world. It is estimated that China is ready to invest more than $150 billion by 2030. South Korea has adopted a series of aggressive incentives, aiming to encourage about $260 billion in chip investment

Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard, but the deal still needs approval from about 20 regulators around the world, including China, the United States, the European Union, Japan and the United Kingdom. Brazilian regulators launched a review of the deal on May 20 and asked third-party gaming companies for their views. Sony, Ubisoft, and Warner, among

The MangoPi MQ Pro , a single-board computer equipped with the Allwinner D1 RISC-V chip, has been released, and Swedish developers compared the performance of the Mango Pi and the Raspberry Pi Zero W equipped with an ARM chip . Mango Pi is 50.31% faster than Raspberry Pi in PHPBench test, 22.26% faster in PyBench

Jeremiah Fowler, an American security researcher who has lived in Kiev for the past decade and fled to Poland for the past few months due to the war, randomly surveyed 100 Russian databases exposed online and found that 92 of them had been compromised by the loose hacking group Anonymous. The hackers used a MeowBot-like

US researchers turned waste optical discs into biosensors, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers showed how to separate the thin metal layer of the golden disc from the hard plastic to make sensors to monitor the electrical activity of the human heart and muscles, as well as lactate, glucose,

The Ubuntu-based Linux Mint distribution has released v21, which includes three desktop environments, Cinnamon , MATE , and Xfce . v21 is a long-term support release that will be supported until 2027. Major new features include: Bluetooth manager replacing Blueberry with Blueman, xapp-thumbnailers supporting thumbnails for common file types, Sticky Notes, Process Monitor, Timeshift being

The open source community still widely uses mailing lists as a long-established communication medium, and the Python language community has begun to discuss switching the discussion medium used by developers from mailing lists to Discourse Forum. The Python project was started experimentally in 2018 using the discussion.python.org forum. As part of the experiment, the mailing

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the U.S. regulator, announced Friday that it will issue a certificate for a new nuclear reactor design. The design, from NuScale, will be the first small modular reactor design approved by the NRC. Small modular reactors, which are believed to reduce the cost of building nuclear power plants, can be

In December 2021, Russia’s media regulator Roskomnadzor ordered ISPs to block the Tor website and its servers. A competition has since developed between Russian censors and the developers and users of the Tor project. Russia is different from China. China completely controls the Internet infrastructure, so it is more effective to block Tor, while Russia’s

Indonesian gamers woke up stunned as the government blocked popular gaming platforms such as Steam and Epic. However, they soon discovered that the blockade was relatively rudimentary and could be bypassed by modifying DNS or using a VPN. India’s Ministry of Communications recently issued a regulation requiring foreign tech companies offering services in Indonesia to