When you visit a new website, your computer probably submits a request to the domain name system (DNS) to translate the domain name (like arstechnica.com) to an IP address. Currently, most DNS queries are unencrypted, which raises privacy and security concerns. Google and Mozilla are trying to address these concerns by adding support in their browsers …
Note: This story was originally published on June 25, 2019. Microsoft said today that OneDrive Personal Vault is open to everyone. Microsoft said Tuesday that OneDrive subscribers will receive a new OneDrive Personal Vault option that adds increased security to their online files, as well as additional storage tiers for existing subscribers. Personal Vault is …
The Spectre isn’t entirely bezel-less, but it’s close—HP says it has a 90% screen-to-body ratio at every angle. Hardware kill switches for Wi-Fi were never popular, but hopefully the webcam equivalent will do better. This year’s Spectre 13 is 13% smaller than last year’s. Today, HP announced that the 2019 model of Spectre x360 13 is …
Enlarge / The iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max running iOS 13. Samuel Axon Today, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 13.1.2, as well as watchOS 6.0.1. All of the updates are focused on bug fixes. The iOS release fixes an issue that prevented Bluetooth connectivity, plus others that stopped the Camera …
Shortly after iOS 13 was announced at WWDC this summer, we wrote about how it would finally make true one of our greatest wishes: the ability to use Siri with third-party audio apps. Siri’s new Media Intents in iOS 13 allow apps like Spotify, Overcast, Audible, Pandora, and others to operate with Siri. It’s not …
Jim Salter Cinemood is a $300 ultra-portable, lithium-ion-powered projector in a lightweight (8oz) form factor roughly the size of a Rubik’s Cube. It’s an Android device with no video input that projects from factory pre-loaded videos or onboard streaming apps like Netflix or YouTube at 640×360—and it’s not a short-throw projector, either. In our testing, …
To paraphrase Fox Mulder, trust no self-encrypting SSD. As of the latest Windows 10 update, Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption tool that’s built into Pro and Enterprise versions will no longer assume that self-encrypting SSDs are, you know, actually securing their data. After researchers demonstrated last year that flaws in many self-encrypting SSDs could let baddies bypass that …
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered and fixed in the popular open-source Exim email server software, which could allow a remote attacker to simply crash or potentially execute malicious code on targeted servers. Exim maintainers today released an urgent security update—Exim version 4.92.3—after publishing an early warning two days ago, giving system administrators an …
A depiction of the complex topology of the connections among qubits in D-Wave’s next-generation hardware. D-Wave On Tuesday, D-Wave announced the details of its next-generation computation hardware, which it’s calling “Advantage,” and released a set of white papers that describe some of the machine’s performance characteristics. While some of the details of the upcoming system …
The greatest threat facing most nations is no longer a standing army. It’s a hacker with a computer who can launch a crippling cyber attack from thousands of miles away—potentially taking down everything from server farms to entire power grids with a few lines of code. So it should come as no surprise that virtually …