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North Korea used Internet Explorer vulnerability to target South Koreans Jess Weatherbed / The exploit was embedded in documents referencing the recent crowd crush tragedy in Itaewon, Seoul. Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered that an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability was used to lure victims using Microsoft Office documents referencing the Itaewon Halloween crowd crush tragedy.Photo…
Google’s rolling out a Nest Wifi Pro update to fix slow internet speeds Emma Roth / The company says only ‘a small number of users’ are experiencing reduced internet speeds with the new router, and that it’s rolling out a software update early next week to address it. Image: Google Google says it’s rolling out…
Internet and Extremism Experts Predict More Hate Speech and Conspiracy Theories on Musk’s Twitter Heidi Ledford, Nature magazine When billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk completed his purchase of Twitter and pledged that “the bird is freed” last week, Felix Ndahinda saw a threat rising on the horizon. Ndahinda has trained in international law and…
How Iran Is Using the Protests to Block More Open Internet Access Sophie Bushwick For nearly a month Iranians have been fiercely and relentlessly protesting against their government. Sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman in the custody of the country’s “morality police,” who arrested her for “inappropriate attire,” the demonstrations have been led…
A 630-Billion-Word Internet Analysis Shows ‘People’ Is Interpreted as ‘Men’ Dana G. Smith What do you visualize when you read words such as “person,” “people” or “individual”? Chances are the image in your head is of a man, not a woman. If so, you are not alone. A massive linguistic analysis of more than half…
The internet is a force multiplier for Ukraine Casey Newton Over the past decade, the biggest tech companies came to feel less like traditional corporations and more like quasi-states: borderless empires whose decisions increasingly had geopolitical consequences, to the growing frustration of the nation states in which they operate. During the rise of former President…
Amazon explains outage that took out a large chunk of the internet | Engadget Jon Fingas Amazon has explained the Web Services outage that knocked parts of the internet offline for several hours on December 7th — and promised more clarity if this happens in the future. As CNBC reports, Amazon revealed an automated capacity…
Comcast now sells Xfinity Flex users internet cable TV from YouTube Catie Keck Comcast is introducing YouTube TV to its Xfinity Flex devices, providing users another avenue for opting out of traditional cable. YouTube was previously supported on Comcast’s Flex boxes, but the addition of YouTube TV gives users the ability to get some 85-plus…
Amazon Web Services went down and took a bunch of the internet with it | Engadget Jessica Conditt Users are reporting a widespread outage at Amazon Web Services, bringing down websites and backend services for organizations including the Associated Press, Disney+ and Vice. Details about the outage are scarce. The AWS status page reported increased…
The Morning After: Some Tesla Superchargers are getting Starlink satellite internet | Engadget Mat Smith Tesla seems to be sneakily combining some of its tech projects. We’ll dive into that later — let’s start with Disney. As threatened, the company went hard on the announcements on its streaming service anniversary last Friday. Disney Alongside a…