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Oracle Releases January 2025 Patch to Address 318 Flaws Across Major Products

January 22, 2025

Oracle is urging customers to apply its January 2025 Critical Patch Update (CPU) to address 318 new security vulnerabilities spanning its products and services. The most severe of the flaws…

Cybersecurity

Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Device

January 22, 2025

Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest ever attack to be reported…

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Get Ready To Hear About The NBA’s Pat Riley If The NFL’s Chiefs Go To The Super Bowl

January 21, 2025

For those of you who are not football fans, we’re coming up on Super Bowl season. And, yes, that will surely mean that we will eventually do some posting on…

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Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well

January 21, 2025

Bambu Lab, a major maker of 3D printers for home users and commercial “farms,” is pushing an update to its devices that it claims will improve security while still offering…

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The Emptiness Of Zuck’s Promise To Move ‘Biased’ Trust & Safety From California To Texas

January 21, 2025

I know that Mark Zuckerberg no longer likes fact-checking, but it’s not going to stop me from continuing to fact-check him. I’m going to rate his claimed plans of moving…

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New year, same streaming headaches: Netflix raises prices by up to 16 percent

January 21, 2025

Today Netflix, the biggest streaming service based on subscriber count, announced that it will increase subscription prices by up to $2.50 per month. In a letter to investors , Netflix…

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RIP EA’s Origin launcher: We knew ye all too well, unfortunately

January 21, 2025

After 14 years, EA will retire its controversial Origin game distribution app for Windows, the company announced. Origin will stop working on April 17, 2025. Folks still using it will…

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Why Google And Apple (And Others) Have No Choice: They Can’t Restart TikTok, They Can Only Fight

January 21, 2025

Even though the Supreme Court somehow didn’t agree, the ban on TikTok remains unconstitutional garbage for all the reasons we’ve discussed: its impact on the platform itself, the impact on…

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iOS 18.3, macOS 15.3 updates switch to enabling Apple Intelligence by default

January 21, 2025

Apple has sent out release candidate builds of the upcoming iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS 15.3 updates to developers today. But they come with one tweak that hasn’t been…

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The Fake Government ‘Efficiency’ Agency Known As DOGE Already Faces Multiple Lawsuits

January 21, 2025

One of the many new executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on Monday was the long-hyped creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE is portrayed as a…

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