“In the past, Apple has taken an opposing stance on letting consumers repair their devices. Some of that is changing with Apple’s new announcement,” writes Slashdot reader wakeboarder. “Apple will sell components like batteries and screens to allow consumers to repair their own devices. This will help reduce e-waste, but Read more…
In the war against misinformation and social media-inspired violence, ultimately the social media platforms are just one front. But what about the people consuming misinformation? In June America’s National Security Council unveiled a “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism,” which argued that “pursuing the goal of preventing, disrupting, and deterring Read more…
The French government’s roadmap for developing open source to make it a vector of digital sovereignty and a guarantee of “democratic confidence” was presented by Public Transformation and Civil Service Minister Amélie de Montchalin on Wednesday (10 November). EURACTIV France reports Montchalin spoke at the closing of the first edition Read more…
Huawei, whose smartphone business has been devastated by U.S. sanctions, is planning to license its handset designs to third parties as a way to gain access to critical components, Bloomberg is reporting, citing people with knowledge of the matter. From the report: The Shenzhen-based tech giant is considering licensing its Read more…
The technology site Recode interviewed 12 “leading thinkers and leaders on Facebook today,” including the Senator pushing tech-industry updates for U.S. antitrust law, an early researcher on viral misinformation, and a now-critical former Facebook executive. “[M]ost believe that Facebook can be fixed, or at least that some of its issues Read more…
“When comparing Meta — formerly Facebook — and Microsoft’s approaches to the metaverse, it’s clear Microsoft has a much more grounded and realistic vision,” argues an analyst at data analytics/consultancy company GlobalData: Meta is set to grab a large portion of the $51 billion revenues from VR that GlobalData expects Read more…
About 10,000 enterprise servers running Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect VPN are vulnerable to a just-patched buffer overflow bug with a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10. From a report: Security firm Randori said on Wednesday that it discovered the vulnerability 12 months ago and for most of Read more…