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The Trojan Room coffee pot was switched off at 09:54 UTC on 22 August 2001 (lemmy.capebreton.social)
cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/327322...
More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/4636459...
FBI operation tricked thousands of computers infected by Qakbot into uninstalling the malware (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/4120885...
Stephen "Steve" Gary Wozniak was born on this day (Aug 11 1950) (lemmy.capebreton.social)
Stephen Gary Wozniak (/ˈwɒzniæk/; born August 11, 1950), also known by his nickname “Woz”, is an American technology entrepreneur, electronics engineer, computer scientist, computer programmer, philanthropist, and inventor. In 1976, he co-founded Apple Computer with his late business partner Steve Jobs, which later became...
Cyber professionals say industry urgently needs to confront mental health crisis (cyberscoop.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/506912...
On this day in 1991, Linus Torvalds announced he was working on what would become Linux (www.xda-developers.com)
Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 on a single 5.25-inch 360 KB floppy disk (en.wikipedia.org)
Urgent: New Security Flaws Discovered in NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes (thehackernews.com)
The vulnerabilities are as follows -...
November 27: Microsoft Ships Internet Explorer 2.0 | This Day in History | Computer History Museum (lemmy.capebreton.social)
cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/1302050...
CCleaner says hackers stole users' personal data during MOVEit mass-hack | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
US spy agency ‘hacked Huawei HQ’: China confirms Snowden leak (www.scmp.com)
Chinese State Security Ministry report acknowledges cyberattacks detailed in internal papers revealed by former contractor...
Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) (web.mit.edu) (web.mit.edu)
From: Trey Harris...
First Instance of Actual Computer Bug Being Found was on September 9th, 1947 (Or was it?) (education.nationalgeographic.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/517037...
Happy Debian Day - going 30 years strong (www.gamingonlinux.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/4431482...
32 years ago today, the World Wide Web opened to the public (info.cern.ch)
Today is a significant day in the history of the Internet. On 6 August 1991, exactly 32 years ago, the World Wide Web became publicly available. Its creator, the now internationally known Tim Berners-Lee, posted a short summary of the project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup and gave birth to a new technology which would...
Looking for MMA and/or BJJ related communities. (lemmy.capebreton.social)
Trying to fill the void left from r/MMA & r/BJJ … Any one have any recommendations for relatively active communities?
USENET, the original social network, is under new management (www.theregister.com)
The USENET management committee has reconvened and there are green shoots of growth in the original, pre-World Wide Web social network.
Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary (www.youtube.com)
The year is early 1998, at the height of dot-com era, and a small team of Netscape code writers frantically works to reconstruct the company’s Internet browser. In doing so they will rewrite the rules of software development by giving away the recipe for its browser in exchange for integrating improvements created by outside...
Signal: Guide to Avoid Privacy Mistakes (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/4143849...
John Mauchly, one of the builders of ENIAC, was born today (August 30, 1907) (lemmy.capebreton.social)
This date marks the birth of John Mauchly who, with J. Presper Eckert built the ENIAC, the first large-scale, electronic calculator....
Dwarf Fortress - Tarn & Zach Adams - The Big Adventure Tease (November 2023) (www.youtube.com)
I’m never getting rid of my first MP3 player (www.theverge.com)
The spring of my freshman year of college, my mom sold my drum set. I used the money to buy an MP3 player. Sorry. A multi-codec jukebox....
My Microsoft Life: What I Learned in 40 Years of Coding (www.youtube.com)
Dave takes you on a forty-year journey as a software engineer including working on every Microsoft operating system from MS-DOS through Windows XP and Server 2003. He discusses Microsoft Windows features he worked on, such as Task Manager, Zip Folders, Product Activation, the Start Menu, Desktop, Pinball, and MS-DOS....