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Enlarge / There’s a lot to unpack in this infographic, which serves as a fairly succinct description of what TrueNAS SCALE is and does – or will do, when fully completed. Storage vendor iXsystems today launched a new R-series hyperconverged infrastructure application for its TrueNAS product line and the first alpha release of TrueNAS SCALE, … Read more

This is what a Nest Secure looks like. That’s a hub/keyboard on top, with a keychain presence sensor and two parts of a “Nest Detect” sensor. Nest Detect is a combined motion sensor and door monitor. Google You can press a button on Nest Detect to use a door without setting off the alarm. Google … Read more

Getty Images Adblocking extensions with more than 300,000 active users have been secretly uploading users’ browsing data and tampering with users’ social media accounts thanks to malware that the new owner introduced a few weeks ago, according to technical analysis and posts on Github. Cyril Gorlla Hugo Xu, developer of the Nano Adblocker and Nano … Read more

Operators of Trickbot — a rentable botnet that has infected more than 1 million devices since 2016 — are looking for new ways to stay afloat after Microsoft and a host of industry partners took concerted action last week to disrupt it. In an update published Tuesday, Microsoft Corporate VP for Security & Trust Tom … Read more

Here’s an interesting experiment Google is kicking off on its smart displays: voice input without a hotword. A video detailing the feature is on YouTube from Jan Boromeusz, a Nest Home hacker who has a proven track record of scoring early smart display features before they’re announced. Boromeusz’s Nest Hub Max is somehow in “Dogfood” … Read more

The iPhone 12 and 12 Pro side by side. Samuel Axon The materials on the edges look very different. Samuel Axon However, it would be difficult to tell them apart from the front. Samuel Axon The iPhone 12 is like an album of Apple’s greatest iPhone hits. It combines the well-known design aesthetic of the … Read more

This is what a Nest Secure looks like. That’s a hub/keyboard on top, with a keychain presence sensor and two parts of a “Nest Detect” sensor. Nest Detect is a combined motion sensor and door monitor. Google You can press a button on Nest Detect to use a door without setting off the alarm. Google … Read more

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook. Apple reported its fourth quarter earnings today after the bell, and it was a bit of a strange quarter because, unlike some previous years (including last year), the launch of an iPhone was not included in this quarter’s numbers . The different models of the iPhone 12 will ship … Read more

Enlarge / Shozoku and ninjato are encouraged but not strictly required to compete. RunCode The annual Runcode.ninja programming contest is back in its fourth year, starting Friday, November 6. RunCode is a non-profit organization staffed by volunteers who work in their spare time and focuses on providing educational opportunities for programmers and infosec people. The … Read more