Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS (www.tomshardware.com)
Southwest Airlines, the fourth largest airline in the US, is seemingly unaffected by the problematic CrowdStrike update that caused millions of computers to BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) because it used Windows 3.1. The CrowdStrike issue disrupted operations globally after a faulty update caused newer computers to freeze and stop...
Conspiracy Theorists Say Global Outage Was an Attack on Trump (gizmodo.com)
Link-Busters Sent a Billion DMCA Takedown Requests to Google Search. (torrentfreak.com)
Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. (www.vox.com)
Travelers can opt out of facial recognition at US airports by requesting manual ID verification, though resistance or intimidation may occur....
Trump Bitcoin Conference fundraiser tickets top out at $844,600 for Nashville soiree (cbnumy.blogspot.com)
Bangladesh’s internet blackout immobilizes its booming tech industry. (restofworld.org)
LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells (www.tomshardware.com)
The Los Angeles Police Department has warned residents to be wary of thieves using technology to break into homes undetected. High-tech burglars have apparently knocked out their victims’ wireless cameras and alarms in the Los Angeles Wilshire-area neighborhoods before getting away with swag bags full of valuables. An LAPD...
European Union court says TikTok owner can’t avoid bloc’s law cracking down on digital giants (apnews.com)
NASA's Curiosity Rover Uncovers Trove of Yellow Crystals on Mars (gizmodo.com)
Former telephone giant Nokia sees double-digit fall in sales amid challenging 5G environment (fortune.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18186772
Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized (www.theverge.com)
Windows 11 is nagging users to try OneDrive to "fully backup" your PC (www.windowslatest.com)
Windows 11 and Windows 10 were recently updated with “Windows Backup”, which has now become a system app. While the feature initially appeared as “optional” or something that could be easily dismissed, Microsoft is slowly getting aggressive with its new OneDrive backup campaign on Windows 11....
OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole (www.theverge.com)
Leaked Cellebrite Tool Docs Reveal List of Phones That Can Be Unlocked (cybersecuritynews.com)
According to the documents, Cellebrite could not unlock any iPhones running iOS 17.4 or newer as of April 2024, labeling them as “In Research.” For iOS versions 17.1 to 17.3.1, the company could unlock the iPhone XR and iPhone 11 series using their “Supersonic BF” (brute force) capability. However, iPhone 12 and newer...
Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier (m.gsmarena.com)
Netflix execs needs a new jet.
Google’s shortened links will stop working next year (www.theverge.com)
#killedbygoogle...
Mark Zuckerberg says Trump’s fist pump was ‘one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life’ (www.theverge.com)
CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes (twiiit.com) Spanish
…according to a Twitter post by the Chief Informational Security Officer of Grand Canyon Education....
Microsoft Says Bye-Bye DEI, Joins Growing List Of Corporations Dismantling Diversity Teams (atlantadailyworld.com)
cross-posted from: yall.theatl.social/post/3229309...
The Top 20 CrowdStrike Memes You Can Enjoy While You Fix Servers - LowEndBox (lowendbox.com)
Yup, the net didn’t waste time.
Deutsche Telekom and their interpretation of their security obligations when beeing a public CA (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
looks like:...
Businesses are harvesting our biometric data. We need new protections (thenextweb.com)
These days, our biometric data is valuable to businesses for security purposes, to enhance customer experience or to improve their own efficiency....
An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experience (www.theregister.com)
IT administrators are struggling to deal with the ongoing fallout from the faulty CrowdStrike update. One spoke to The Register to share what it is like at the coalface....
You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend: “The strength of weak ties” applies to misinformation, too (www.niemanlab.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/925900...