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Thanks! I just found an update on C.net, which said the same thing. Looks like this is more about the telecom hack and old sms messages.

89 million Steam account details just got leaked, so now's a good time to change your password WWW.XDA-DEVELOPERS.COM We're still not sure how it even happened.

Other games that need a SSD are Kenshi and Star Citizen. Most games work fine off a HDD. I think the recommended standard for most people is to get a 2 TB m.2 drive for gaming and to remove games as necessary for space.

Google inks deal to develop 1.8 GW of advanced nuclear power | TechCrunch TECHCRUNCH.COM Google and nuclear site developer Elementl Power announced that they will work together on three sites for advanced nuclear reactors. Power is the new constraint on AI. It was only a matter of time until they started investing in nuclear.

FBI Warns Of Router Attacks — Is Yours On The List Of 13? WWW.FORBES.COM Is your router on this list? Act now if it is, the FBI has warned. Most of these are fairly old, but if it ain't broke... Well, now it's broken.

FTC Loses Appeal Challenging Microsoft's Acquisition of Activision Blizzard - IGN WWW.IGN.COM Microsoft has secured another victory over the FTC in its quest to secure Activision Blizzard. I won't shed any tears if Activision is no more, but I'm not sure how I feel about Microsoft purchasing them. I think the consolidation of gaming companies is bad for the industry as a whole.

Israeli spyware firm NSO ordered to pay Meta, WhatsApp nearly $170M over hacking THEHILL.COM A federal jury in California ordered Israeli cyberintelligence firm NSO Group on Tuesday to pay Meta and WhatsApp... Any bets on if they actually pay?

Skype is retiring in May 2025: What you need to know - Microsoft Support SUPPORT.MICROSOFT.COM Skype is retiring in May 2025. Switch over to Teams Free to keep all your chats and contacts in one place, or export your data. Learn more... There are several news stories going on about this. TLDR, Microsoft is closing Skype and pushing Teams. I'll never understand buying a product/business only to kill it. Skype was great until they started adding a lot of bloat. Ads, and an overall larger program that wasn't as well optimized is what drove me to Dolby Axon (now defunct), and later Discord. I guess they milked all the ad revenue they could. Do you think Microsoft recouped the $8.5 billion they paid? I see Discord in a similar situation. What was once a lightweight/great program is trying to figure out how to monetize. They added some nitro stuff and started shopping for serious buyers. When they didn't get what they wanted, they stayed private and raised another $100 million in private funding. Discord probably make a lot more selling data to data brokers. Discord keeps track of other programs running with it's app and it seems like that's a big intelligence information vector that nobody is talking about. Maybe the problem is that Microsoft is hogging the plate. These days I run discord on a web browser so it's not as invasive. As an extra bonus, ublock origin is blocking the annoying nitro stuff, their picker tool is great!

Microsoft goes passwordless by default on new accounts WWW.THEVERGE.COM The company is trying to get everyone to get rid of passwords, eventually. Nothing can go wrong with this plan.

Soviet-era spacecraft expected to plunge uncontrolled to Earth next week | Space | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Kosmos 482, weighing 500kg, was meant to land on Venus in the 1970s but it never made it out of orbit because of a rocket malfunction

Unique molecule may lead to smaller, more efficient computers PHYS.ORG Today, most of us carry a fairly powerful computer in our hand—a smartphone. But computers weren't always so portable. Since the...

Hackers can now bypass Linux security thanks to terrifying new Curing rootkit BETANEWS.COM Most Linux users assume their security tools will catch bad actors before damage is done — but sadly, new research suggests that...

China Just Powered Up the World’s First Thorium Reactor — and Reloaded It Mid-Run WWW.ZMESCIENCE.COM They used declassified US documents to develop the technology.

In depth with Windows 11 Recall—and what Microsoft has (and hasn’t) fixed ARSTECHNICA.COM Original botched launch still haunts new version of data-scraping AI feature. Recall is a hacker's wet dream.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/104554/amd-confirms-security-vulnerability-in-every-zen-1-to-5-processor/index.html Requires system admin to facilitate. If someone has system admin the system is already compromised but this might allow for long term persistence. Just another reason to stay on top of updates.