"Hundreds of MacBook Pro workers break through barriers" (Quanta)
https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/06/hundreds-of-macbook-pro-workers-covid-barriers/
SheetJS ditches NPM registry over 2FA requirement and 'legal matters'
Science behind Ultrasonic Motion Sensing for Amazon Echo
https://www.amazon.science/blog/the-science-behind-ultrasonic-motion-sensing-for-echo
How the Intel 8088 Got Its Bus
https://www.eejournal.com/article/how-the-intel-8088-got-its-bus/
Automated OS Testing on Physical Laptops (Qubes OS)
https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2022/05/05/automated-os-testing-on-physical-laptops/
China orders government, state firms to dump foreign PCs
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-orders-government-state-firms-to-dump-foreign-pcs
Allwinner V853 Arm Cortex-A7 + #RISCV SoC comes with 1 TOPS NPU for AI Vision applications
Web3 and the Trap of ‘For Good’
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/web3_and_the_trap_of_for_good
M1 Data Memory-Dependent Prefetcher Vulnerability: "the vulnerability could allow attackers to siphon off 'at rest' data, meaning the data doesn't even need to be accessed by the processing cores to be exposed"
Apple, Google, and Microsoft will soon implement FIDO sign-in on all major platforms
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/5/23057646/apple-google-microsoft-passwordless-sign-in-fido
@lupyuen not being ActivityPub-compatible scares me a bit on further fragmentation in the decentralized space. The fact that the project is on Microsoft-owned GitHub servers shows me freedom isn't a priortity.
Kani: Open source Automated Reasoning Tool for proving properties about your #RustLang code
"Twitter’s decentralized, open-source offshoot just released its first code" (Bluesky ADX)
"Microsoft open-sourced the code for 1995’s 3D Movie Maker because someone asked"
"Secure and Authorized Client-to-Client Communication for LwM2M" (#RIOT OS)
"vulnerability allows an attacker to manipulate a #Matrix user into executing IRC Commands by having them reply to a maliciously crafted message"
https://matrix.org/blog/2022/05/04/0-34-0-security-release-for-matrix-appservice-irc-high-severity
IoT Techie and Educator / Apache NuttX PMC