Month: June 2022
Cisco confirms plan to exit Russia permanently
Audio player loading… Networking giant Cisco will wind down its businesses in Russia and Belarus following the invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. The company first suspended its operations in the two countries back in March 2022 alongside several other major technology and mobile companies, condemning the “unjustified war” and…
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Apple rumored to be making M3 already, and it’ll be in Macs next year
Audio player loading… Apple is already making an M3 chip, despite the M2 still very much being new on the silicon block, according to a fresh rumor. Given that this is a rather surprisingly early time to be hearing about the M3, stay skeptical around this one, although that said,…
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Steam Deck SSD mod may ‘appear to work’, but don’t do it, Valve warns
Audio player loading… Steam Deck owners thinking of modding their handheld to run a physically larger-sized SSD shouldn’t do so, with Valve officially warning against such a course of action. Valve’s Lawrence Yang, a designer who worked on the Steam Deck, took to Twitter to caution Deck owners that they…
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Fall Guys update fixes party invites on PS5 and makes the Switch version less of an eyesore
After going free-to-play less than a week ago, Fall Guys is getting its first major update to fix several technical and visual issues across all platforms. Developer Mediatonic issued the update early this morning, which corrects some glaring issues — including that players using the PlayStation 5 version were not…
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Malicious Python packages dump your AWS secrets online
Audio player loading… Multiple malicious Python packages leaking sensitive user information have been uncovered by security experts. In a blog post (opens in new tab), Sonatype security researcher Ax Sharma says the packages: loglib-modules, pyg-modules, pygrata, pygrata-utils, and hkg-sol-utils, were exfiltrating people’s secrets, such as AWS credentials and environment variables,…
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The archnemeses of war rugs
Aaron Davies remembers being blown away by the colors. Instead of the muted tones and abstract motifs of traditional Persian carpets, the rug in front of him depicted a map of Afghanistan surrounded by guns and tanks, woven with fluorescent pink, green, and blue threads. Known as a “war rug,”…
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