Ransomware is one of the nastiest forms of malware around: once it’s downloaded onto a computer network, it runs around encrypting all your files, before charging a Bitcoin ransom to give up the encryption key: bad if it’s your holiday photos at stake, disastrous for hospitals and patient data. Read more…
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Hospital Pays $17,000 Ransom to Reclaim Its Files
If you want fast 4G, you should live in Singapore, New Zealand or Hungary. But perhaps most importantly, you should definitely not live in the US. Read more…
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US LTE Speeds Rank a Dire 55th Fastest in the World
Flexible devices may still be a little way off , but a new kind of ceramic that is flexible in the same way as paper could certainly help speed things along. Read more…
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A New Ceramic Film Promises Electronics That Fold Like Paper
Digital archeology is one of my favorite blog post forms. An avid X user from 198X resurrects an old system that he or she had used to create something amazing/build a business/write a game/or generally hack around. The resulting material – photos, video, and commentary – are priceless. Today we bring you Quinn Dunki has post a truly amazing look inside her Apple IIgs and a passel… Read More
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Watch An Apple IIgs Boot Over 20 Years After It Was Last Turned Off
In a surprise move, Apple just announced an external battery case for the iPhone 6s. Named the iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case, the battery extends the battery life of your iPhone 6s by up to 25 hours. The new accessory is available in black and white for $99 starting today. Read More
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Apple Releases First Battery Case To Eat Third-Party Accessory Makers’ Lunch
Yahoo is reportedly preventing some of its users with ad blockers installed on their computers from accessing their email accounts. Digiday has spotted a thread on the Adblock Plus forums with complaints from a couple of people who couldn’t access Yahoo Mail on both Chrome and Firefox. One of them posted a screenshot of the message he got asking him to “disable Ad Blocker to continue using” the service, which you can see below the fold. If you take a close look at the URL, you’ll see that it says “reason=ADBLK_TRAP.” Via: Digiday Source: Adblock Plus
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Yahoo restricting Mail accounts if it detects ad-blockers
According to several reports , the ‘largest-ever technology merger’ is set to be announced later today — and it’s between Dell and storage technology firm EMC, in a deal said to be worth over $50 billion. Read more…
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Dell Reported to Announce $50 Billion ‘Biggest Deal in Tech’ Later Today
You’ve got to love that 8-bit sound. Blips and bloops and beeps magically merge together to create choppy, nostalgic melodies that remind us how far we’ve come since the first personal computers. But how did those big beige boxes actually make music ? Read more…
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How 80s Computers Create 8-Bit Music
Sometimes, all you need is the right app to get something done—whether it’s an essential everyday tool, or something a bit more specialized. Today, as part of Lifehacker’s 10th anniversary celebration , we’re looking at 10 of our favorite apps in the latter category. Read more…
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Top 10 Incredibly Useful Windows Programs to Have On Hand
An anonymous reader writes: For any longtime Linux users, you probably remember the LILO bootloader from Linux distributions of many years ago. This bootloader has been in development since the 90’s but development is finally ending. A homepage message reads, “I plan to finish development of LILO at 12/2015 because of some limitations (e.g. with BTFS, GPT, RAID). If someone want to develop this nice software further, please let me know …” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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LILO Bootloader Development To End