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Securing your digital life, the finale: Debunking worthless “security” practices

Enlarge / Take one daily to keep Evil Hackerman away! (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Information security and privacy suffer from the same phenomenon we see in fighting COVID-19: "I've done my…

Securing your digital life, part three: How smartphones make us vulnerable

Enlarge / In this story, we're going to learn about "pig butchering." (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) There are, by some estimates, more smart phones on this planet than human beings to…

PSA: Apple isn’t actually patching all the security holes in older versions of macOS

Enlarge / The default wallpaper for macOS Catalina. (credit: Apple) News is making the rounds today, both via a write-up in Vice and a post from Google's Threat Analysis Group, of a privilege…

Starlink’s new Dishy McFlatface is smaller and lighter, still costs $499

Enlarge / The new version of Dishy McFlatface. (credit: Starlink) Starlink has replaced its user terminal with a new model that's smaller and cheaper to produce, and the company updated the Wi-Fi router…

Comcast admits “widespread” outage as tens of thousands of users report problems

Enlarge / A Comcast Xfinity service van in Sunnyvale, California, in November 2018. (credit: Getty Images | Sundry Photography) There appears to be a widespread Comcast outage affecting customers in multiple parts of…

Starlink gives mixed signals on whether some preorders are delayed until 2023

Enlarge (credit: Starlink) Starlink has provided an encouraging update for preorderers who unexpectedly had their estimated delivery dates delayed to 2022 or 2023, but the Starlink website is still displaying delayed delivery dates…

These parents built a school app. Then the city called the cops

Enlarge / Öppna Skolplattformen hoped to succeed where Skolplattform had failed. (credit: Comstock | Getty Images) Christian Landgren’s patience was running out. Every day the separated father of three was wasting precious time…

What a “converged battlefield” means to the future of air… I mean, joint warfare

Enlarge / A three-ship flight of F-22 Raptors. As one of the US Air Force's most sophisticated fighters, it might see combat in the future not against insurgencies, but against technologically sophisticated adversaries…

FCC approves Boeing satellites, rejecting SpaceX’s interference claims

Enlarge / Boeing office building in Arlington, Virginia. (credit: Getty Images | Olivier Douliery) The Federal Communications Commission today gave Boeing permission to launch 147 broadband satellites. While that's a fraction of the…

Starlink nightmare: Moving service location a few feet delays orders until 2023

Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish. (credit: Starlink) Some people who preordered Starlink broadband say they made tiny changes to their service locations on the Starlink website and immediately had their delivery dates delayed…