Month: March 2022
Apple, Microsoft, and Google all receive poor grades on repairability report card
Laptops and smartphones made by Apple, Microsoft, and Google are considerably less repair-friendly than those made by competitors Asus, Dell, and Motorola, according to a new report. These findings may be unsurprising to people who like to fix gadgets, but the data to back them up comes from an unusual…
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Google is releasing an open source harassment filter for journalists
Google’s Jigsaw unit is releasing the code for an open source anti-harassment tool called Harassment Manager. The tool, intended for journalists and other public figures, employs Jigsaw’s Perspective API to let users sort through potentially abusive comments on social media platforms starting with Twitter. It’s debuting as source code for…
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UK government wants to kill off mobile signal blackspots for good
Audio player loading… The UK government has announced plans to help end the scourge of mobile signal “blackspots” across the country. The reforms will mean that rural areas should see a significant improvement in terms of mobile signal, with the nationwide 5G rollout also greatly accelerated. Also included in the…
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iPad Air 5 could get M1 chipset – but that’s too much power for its own good
Audio player loading… How much processing power is too much, when it comes to mid-range tablets? Well, the iPad Air 5 might be about to answer that question for us, because it sounds like it’s going to be unnecessarily powerful. This is because 9to5Mac thinks the upcoming iPad, which we’re…
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Some bleeding-edge 3nm processors may be available months ahead of schedule
Audio player loading… Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company or TSMC is preparing to move up the schedule for its N3E fabrication technology by around a quarter according to a new report from Morgan Stanley. Although this move will make a variety of 3nm chip designs available sooner, it will still likely…
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This major Linux security vulnerability has been fixed, so patch now
Audio player loading… If you’re running a Linux distro on your computer or use an Android smartphone, you should install the latest updates immediately as a severe security vulnerability has been found and patched in the Linux kernel. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0847 and dubbed “Dirty Pipe”, was discovered by…
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