Children, especially girls, who use smartphones before they are 13 years old may have worse mental health outcomes when they’re older, a new study suggests.

1.0 The Silicon Root of Trust: Pre-Boot & Hardware Primitives


The security of the macOS platform on Apple Silicon is not defined by the kernel; it is defined by the physics of the die. Before the first instruction of kernelcache is fetched, a complex, cryptographic…

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Rather than publishing the findings or pursuing additional research, Meta called off further work.

Classification plan will create basis for ‘significantly stricter’ prosecutions, says interior minister

While working on Snow, my vintage Macintosh emulator, I came across an interesting conflict in expectations of applications with regards to open bus behavior on these systems. In this article I’ll explain what open bus behavior is, how a compact Macintosh…

Programmers are known to not have a strong suit for art related disciplines, pixel art is no exception.

How safe are the batteries in your e-bike or vape pen? Discover the risks of counterfeit lithium-ion cells and what you can do to stay safe.

How Bell Labs supported itself between moonshots

Enabling you to safely give AI agents the permissions they need, so they can give you the productivity you demand.

I've been studying the standard cell circuitry in the Intel 386 processor recently. The 386, introduced in 1985, was Intel's most complex pr...

Ubuntu Pro now supports LTS releases for up to 15 years through the Legacy add-on. More security, more stability, and greater control over upgrade timelines for enterprises. […]

(This is the first of a two-part series.  The second part can be found here.) I used to drink more caffeine than you do. That is almost certainly true.  From my college days (1985ff) through the en…

A new automated system will rely on biometrics to verify passengers who show up without a Real ID or passport.

In the coming decade, artificially intelligent agents with the ability to plan and execute complex tasks over long time horizons with little direct oversight from humans may be deployed across the...

A global group of researchers was unable to read the vote tally, after an official lost one of three secret code keys needed to unlock a hyper-secure election system.

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Google has resumed work on JPEG XL support in Chromium after removing it three years ago. A developer says the current version is feature complete and under review.