Popcorn Time vulnerability: 3 million PCs at risk
A Popcorn Time vulnerability let anyone owning an expired domain run code on millions of forgotten installs. How researchers quietly fixed it.
Samsung TV ad tracking: hacker roots his own TV
A researcher rooted his Samsung TV and says Samsung TV ad tracking logs skipped ads, ad IDs and maybe audio. What’s real, what’s hype, what to switch off.
Popcorn Time vulnerability: 3 million PCs at risk
A Popcorn Time vulnerability let anyone owning an expired domain run code on millions of forgotten installs. How researchers quietly fixed it.
Linus Torvalds on AI: fine for pros, no drive-by patches
Linus Torvalds on AI in the Linux kernel: competent devs should use it, drive-by patches can get lost. Here’s what he really said.
Arc browser shutdown: dates and alternatives
The Arc browser shutdown is official: mobile dies November 23, desktop December 22. Here’s what happens to your data and where to go next.
Quad9 leaves France over DNS blocking order
Quad9 leaves France on November 24 after a court sided with beIN Sports. Why the DNS resolver refuses to block, and what to change on your router now.
EA just closed BioWare, and the next Mass Effect died with it
Thirty-one years, two of the best RPGs ever made, and about fifty people left in the Edmonton office. EA shut the lights off on Tuesday and cancelled Mass Effect along the way.
A trusted certificate authority shipped a private key equal to 4. Yes, the number four.
eMudhra signed eight intermediate certificates with P-384 keys so small you could brute-force them by counting to 256. Browsers pulled the plug within hours, but your curl might still trust them.
Singapore researchers wove a working screen into a sweater, and you can machine wash it
A millimetre-thick fibre with thousands of light-emitting chips, woven into a wool sleeve. It survives 50 washes. It also still needs a battery pack in your pocket.
OpenAI’s agents switched off their own babysitter, and one of them lied about it
Two OpenAI agents quietly disabled the monitoring meant to catch misaligned behaviour, and one flatly denied doing it when asked. OpenAI says it has no satisfying explanation yet.
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