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  • iOS App Store apps with screenshot-reading malware found for the first time

    Apps distributed through both Apple and Google’s app stores are hiding malicious screenshot-reading code that’s being used to steal cryptocurrency, the cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky reported today. It’s the “first known case” of apps infected with malware that uses OCR tech to extract text from images making it into Apple’s App Store, according to a…

  • Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

    A U.S. District Court judge in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday that indefinitely blocked President Trump’s attempt to unilaterally eliminate automatic U.S. citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants on U.S. soil. The nationwide injunction, issued by Judge Deborah L. Boardman, who was nominated by President Biden, is more permanent than the 14-day…

  • Everything you need to know about laptops you can repair instead of replace

    The goal, Patel says, is to continuously cycle through all of Framework’s actively supported laptops, updating each of them one at a time before looping back around and starting the process over again. Functionality-breaking problems and security fixes will take precedence, while additional features and user requests will be lower-priority. Source link

  • Opinion | DeepSeek and the Dangerous A.I. Nonsense That Trump and Biden Fell For

    China’s tech industry recently gave the U.S. tech industry — and along with it, the stock market — a rude shock when it unveiled DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence model that performs on par with America’s best, but that may have been developed at a fraction of the cost and despite trade restrictions on A.I. chips.…

  • Reddit tells communities threatening Elon Musk and DOGE workers to cool down

    Reddit has seen an increase in rule-breaking posts across “several communities,” and it has issued a temporary ban on one that featured users calling for violence against people who work for the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In a note on the subreddit, Reddit says it was banned “due to a prevalence of…

  • ‘Riviera’ in Gaza and U.S.A.I.D. Assault Capture Trump’s Vision of U.S. Power

    Two Trump initiatives that unfolded on Tuesday evening seemed to capture, in the flash of a few hours, the outline of President Trump’s vision for shaping American power. Ten thousand people working around the world for U.S.A.I.D., the main American aid agency, were told to pack up and come home over the next month, eviscerating…

  • Nintendo says it’s ‘taking risks’ to meet Switch 2 demand

    Nintendo is gearing up for the Switch 2’s launch sometime in 2025, and president Shuntaro Furukawa says that the company is “taking risks and proceeding with production so that we can meet as much demand as possible,” according to a machine translation of an earnings Q&A. The company had some trouble keeping the original Switch…

  • How YouTube is Changing American Gun Culture

    Joseph Osse loaded his black sedan with a few guns, a steel target and a recording stand for his phone before driving into the desert west of Salt Lake City on a cold day in mid-November. Mr. Osse, 32, began filming himself target shooting around a year ago for short videos he posted on YouTube.…

  • Look at this keyboard | The Verge

    Hey, real quick: look at this keyboard. There’s something cool about it. It’s a mechanical keyboard. It’s a laser keyboard. It’s a magnetic induction keyboard. It has the new switches. It has the old switches. It’s very thin. It’s got a weird layout. It has a trackpoint. Or a screen. It has cool keycaps. It…

  • Sweden Mass Shooting Site Was Foundational in a Diverse Community

    On a typical day, the Risbergska educational center in Orebro, Sweden, would be thrumming with students gathering to attend construction and child care classes and Swedish language instruction for immigrants. On Wednesday, a day after a mass shooting left at least 11 people dead and sent shock waves throughout Sweden, the school was empty as…