Underneath the gaming platform worth $68 billion and used by over half of all children in America is a ballooning and highly profitable ecosystem of hackers and traders. Motherboard spoke to 11 people connected to Roblox beaming (Roblox slang for getting hacked and your items stolen), including victims, the people Read more…
Google has announced a new version of Chrome OS called Chrome OS Flex, which is designed to run on old PCs and Macs. The operating system can be installed “within minutes,” according to Google’s blog post. Google told me that Chrome OS Flex will look and feel identical to Chrome Read more…
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense website suffered from what appeared to be a distributed denial of service attack Tuesday, according to the government’s Facebook account. The military’s website remained unavailable as of 12 p.m. PT Tuesday, with the Ukrainian military’s Facebook account saying work is currently underway to restore regular functioning Read more…
In an AWS blog post, Amazon announced that its Elastic File Systems (Amazon EFS) “now provide average latency as low as 600 microseconds for the majority of read operations on data and metadata. “We seem to be approaching the speed of light, even when taking into account IOPS, throughput, and Read more…
In an all-hands meeting at Meta “explaining the company’s updated values,” Mark Zuckerberg says employees are not supposed to “nice ourselves to death,” adding that they are now to be known as “Metamates.” According to the Daily Beast, citing long-time executive Andrew Bosworth, “the term was coined by the cognitive Read more…
Virgin Galactic announced that it’s opening ticket sales to the general public for its spaceflight system, “letting you become an astronaut if you’re willing to pay $450,000 and put down a $150,000 deposit,” reports Engadget. For that $450K, you’ll get a 90-minute ride to the edge of space including the Read more…
Robots are being trialled to deliver food and other items in South Korea, which is planning to allow them on roads from 2023. Woowa Brothers, operator of the country’s biggest food delivery app, started using robots on a trial basis in 2020 while a convenience store chain started in November Read more…