Month: October 2023
DDoS attacks are getting bigger and more powerful, and that’s a really bad thing
There had been “thousands” of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the time since the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset vulnerability was disclosed, a new report from Cloudflare has claimed, adding that 89 of those exceeded 100 million requests per second (rps). Thanks to these attacks, the total amount…
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How to Use Your Phone Addiction to Actually Learn Stuff
These apps can help you slow your mindless scrolling—or put it to good use. Source
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HP Spectre Foldable Review: A $5,000 Laptop
No, you probably shouldn’t spend $5,000 on this folding OLED laptop. Source
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The Samsung Galaxy S24 looks likely to launch in January
The Samsung Galaxy S23 phones were unveiled on February 1, 2023, but it looks increasingly likely that the Samsung Galaxy S24 series is going to show up earlier in 2024 – probably before the end of January. As per seasoned tipster @UniverseIce on Chinese social media site Weibo (via @Tech_Reve…
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‘SSD Performance levels’: New generation of microSD cards could help transfer an entire Blu-ray movie in less than 15 seconds, paving the way for mainstream 8K recording
The SD 9.1 standard will double the speeds of the best microSD cards out there today, with the next generation of SD cards hitting speeds of up to 2GB/s. With SD 9.1, unveiled by the SD Assocation (SDA), the next cohort of SD Express memory cards uses PCIe Gen4 that…
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Google researchers use off-the-shelf headphones to measure heart rate
Typical heart rate monitoring in wearable tech, like smart watches or wireless earbuds, relies at least partially on photoplethysmography (PPG), which uses light pulses to measure blood activity. It works generally well, but it has its limitations. Google scientists wrote in a new research blog spotted by 9to5Google yesterday that…
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