It’s taken 6, 000 pissed-off customers, a Change.org petition , and an entire website named Staingate , but Apple has finally agreed that yes, a coating peeling off Retina Macbook displays is not good. Read more…
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Apple Admits That Delaminating Screens Might Actually Be a Problem
In a post on Wednesday, researchers Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger presented compelling research suggesting that the NSA has developed the capability to decrypt a large number of HTTPS, SSH, and VPN connections using an attack on common implementations of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm with 1024-bit primes. Earlier in the year, they were part of a research group that published a study of the Logjam attack, which leveraged overlooked and outdated code to enforce “export-grade” (downgraded, 512-bit) parameters for Diffie-Hellman. By performing a cost analysis of the algorithm with stronger 1024-bit parameters and comparing that with what we know of the NSA “ black budget ” (and reading between the lines of several leaked documents about NSA interception capabilities) they concluded that it’s likely NSA has been breaking 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman for some time now. Read more…
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How to Protect Yourself from the NSA If You Use 1024-bit DH Encryption
Laser scanning has helped England do everything from discovering new things about Stonehenge to planning better flood infrastructure . Now, the country has made the entirety of its massive trove of scans available for free—in part because of requests from everyone from researchers to Minecraft players. Read more…
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England Makes 3D Data of the Entire Country Free After Minecrafters Ask For It
Hanging out at a museum is a great way to spend an afternoon. It can also be a frugal way to spend an afternoon, as many museum admission prices are cheap—or better yet, free. Cheapism offers a list of cheap or free museums in every U.S. state. Read more…
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The Best Cheap (or Free) Museums in All 50 States
The iOS 9 jailbreak was just released from the same team who brought us the iOS 8 jailbreak . Like last time, it’s also Windows-only for the time being. Read more…
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The iOS 9 Jailbreak Is Now Available
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
Windows/iOS/Android/Chrome/Firefox: A good VPN is a handy tool. A free, unlimited one is even better. Betternet aims to make using a VPN (as well as my wordplay) dead simple. Read more…
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Betternet is a Free, Unlimited VPN With No Registration
It was exciting when Mark Zuckerberg suggested that Facebook was building a “Dislike” button . So many things not to like! However, the social network just started testing a new emoji reactions feature that is probably the real future of disliking stuff on Facebook. Read more…
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Facebook Is Testing Six New Reaction Emoji Instead of a Single "Dislike" Button
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
Your favorite internet radio service will soon make it easier to buy concert tickets. Pandora just bought Ticketfly , a Ticketmaster competitor, for $450 million. Why? Because it’s a great idea. Read more…
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Pandora Just Bought Ticketfly For Nearly Half a Billion Dollars