Iranians turn to Starlink, decentralized messaging apps, and VPNs to circumvent an internet blackout; NetBlocks says connectivity is at ~1% of ordinary levels
it's never who you thinkTimes of India:Iran's internet shutdown extends for more than 2 days amid US-Israel cyberattack reportsAisha Down /The Guardian:Internet blackout is tool of desperate regime to...
Iranians turn to Starlink, decentralized messaging apps, and VPNs to circumvent an internet blackout; NetBlocks says connectivity is at 1% of ordinary levels
Iranians face third day of internet blackout as connectivity hits 1%Zack Whittaker /TechCrunch:Hackers and internet outages hit Iran amid US air strikesCarly Page /The Register:Iran all but vanishes f...
HP says memory now accounts for 35% of its PC bill of materials, up from 15% to 18% in Q4 2025, and expects RAM's share to rise through 2026
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Wikimedia celebrates Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, marking its growth from 100 pages to 65M+ articles with nearly 15B monthly views, and releases a docuseries
When Wikipedia launched 25 years ago today …Simon Sharwood /The Register:Wikimedia's 25th birthday gift: Letting more AIs scour pages volunteers createdWikimedia Foundation:Celebrate Wikipedia's 25th ...
Two ex-staffers of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint plead guilty to targeting US companies in 2023's BlackCat ransomware attacks
group demanded up to $10 million from each victim Jonathan Greig / The Record : Ransomware responders plead guilty to using ALPHV in attacks on US organizations Deeba Ahmed / Hackread : 2 US Cybersecu...
A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat
China Warns Move Could ‘Backfire’ DigiTimes : China's battery and energy storage firms lead, fueled by AI-driven power demand surge Simon Sharwood / The Register : US punishes China's ‘dominance’ of l...
Amazon CSO Stephen Schmidt says subtle keystroke data lag, measuring 110ms instead of the expected tens of milliseconds, helped catch a North Korean IT worker
110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location Ken Underhill / eSecurity Planet : Amazon Detects North Korean IT Infiltrator via Latency Clues Deeba Ahmed / Hackread : Keyboard Lag Leads Am...
Micron reports Q1 revenue up 57% YoY to $13.64B, above $12.84B est., net income up 180% YoY to $5.24B, and Q2 revenue forecast above est.; MU jumps 5%+
CEO says it can only meet half to two-thirds of demand Akriti Shah / NewsMax.com : Micron Surges 13% on Upbeat Profit Forecast James Van Straten / CoinDesk : Micron crushes earnings, calming markets a...
The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues like its deceptive blue checkmarks, after a two-year probe
‘Impose Sanctions...’ The Verge : EU fines X $140 million over ‘deceptive’ blue checkmarks Inc : Why Elon Musk's X Was Slapped With a $140 Million Fine Eva Terry / Deseret News : European Union fines ...
Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business by February 2026, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips for AI data centers, amid a supply shortage
because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics : Micron to exit the consumer memory and storage market in favor of AI data center customer...