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Dave Gaudreau from Winnipeg warns others about falling for phone scams after being duped out of hundreds of dollars in what he thought was a legitimate Facebook support number. Despite Meta AI verifying the number as real, the call turned out to be a scam with his Facebook and PayPal accounts being compromised. Gaudreau reported […]
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If you own an Intel Z170 or Z270 chipset motherboard, you may think it only supports up to 7th gen CPUs. But with some Kapton tape fixes and BIOS mods, you can actually make an 8th or 9th gen Coffee Lake CPU work on your board in a process known as “Coffee Mod”. This contrasts […]
Following a collaboration between Access Now, Citizen Lab, and digital security expert Nikolai Kvantiliani, it has been uncovered that several journalists and activists in Russia, Belarus, Latvia, and Israel were targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in the EU. Significant dates, such as “Freedom Day” in Belarus, were marked by hacking attempts. Russian-speaking journalists in […]
The website offers a tool for creating shadow maps and sun finders for houses or gardens, allowing users to calculate sun position, sun path, and sun exposure. It can simulate shadows cast by buildings, trees, and terrain in 3D, as well as provide sunlight and shading information for sunrise and sunset photos. Surprisingly, no installation […]
Do you have an old Apple laptop from 1994 with important files you need to transfer? This article details the author’s journey to transfer audio recordings from a PowerBook Duo 280c laptop. Despite challenges such as outdated hardware and software, the author creatively uses fax software and OCR technology to successfully transfer the files. The […]
A hacking group called ShinyHunters claims to have stolen personal details, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and partial credit card information, from 560 million Ticketmaster users worldwide. The group is demanding a $500,000 ransom to prevent the data from being sold. The FBI and Australian government are involved in investigating the cyber incident, although Ticketmaster […]
In this research, we uncover a major data breach involving the cloud storage giant, Snowflake, where a threat actor accessed and exfiltrated a massive amount of data from hundreds of companies. The breach began with a single credential stolen from a Snowflake employee and escalated to the threat actor attempting to blackmail Snowflake for $20,000,000. […]
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According to NEA Research, despite record-level increases in some states, average teacher pay has failed to keep up with inflation. Adjusted for inflation, teachers are making 5% less than they did a decade ago. The biggest one-year pay increases were seen in New Mexico (17.2%), Mississippi (11.4%), and Alabama (8.2%). The national average teacher salary […]
James Joyce’s Ulysses is a groundbreaking novel that unfolds over one day in Dublin, intertwining the lives of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom in a series of unique episodes that mirror scenes from the Odyssey. Despite its formal innovations and linguistic brilliance, Ulysses faced a tumultuous publication history marred by obscenity trials. The novel’s dense […]