Everything we know about The Callisto Protocol
The Callisto Protocol is an upcoming spiritual successor to Dead Space. Here's everything we know about it, including its release date, platforms, and more......»»
Freeing Up of Hundreds of Millions of IPv4 Addresses Mooted
Work is afoot to free up several internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) address ranges which have been unroutable as reserved, invalid or used for loopback networks since the 1980s. Reader Bismillah shares a report: Seth Schoen, who co-founded the free t.....»»
Tesla is considering adopting Apple’s AirPlay to improve audio quality
Elon Musk said that Tesla is going to consider adopting Apple’s AirPlay protocol to improve audio quality over the current Bluetooth. more… The post Tesla is considering adopting Apple’s AirPlay to improve audio quality appeared first on 9to5.....»»
New single-cell RNA-sequencing method has potential to become universal tool of choice
A new single-cell RNA-sequencing protocol developed at Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) enables the detection of a significantly higher number of genes per cell than any existing method. It is also faster, less expensive.....»»
Study gives animal testing alternatives a confidence boost
As part of a government effort to reduce animal testing, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have worked with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Inotiv Inc. to produce a new protocol for screening s.....»»
Luna Cryptocurrency"s Collapse Led to Multi-Million-Dollar Exploits, Closure of a Crypto Money Market
The Record reports that the decentralized money market Venus Protocol "announced on Thursday evening about $11 million had been lost due to people exploiting the historic collapse of the Luna cryptocurrency and its sister stablecoin UST." Venus Proto.....»»
On Deck Cuts 25% Staff, MainStreet 30%, and Cameo Removes 87 Positions Including CTO and CPO
Cameo, the celebrity video greetings startup, laid off 87 of staffers Wednesday, a move that CEO Steven Galanis described as "right-sizing." From a report: The layoffs also affected some of Cameo's most senior executives, Protocol has learned. Leader.....»»
Twitter"s Decentralized, Open-Source Offshoot Releases Its First Code
Bluesky, Twitter's open-source offshoot, has released early code for a decentralized social network protocol. The Verge reports: The system is dubbed the Authenticated Data Experiment (or ADX) and is available on GitHub for developers to test, althou.....»»
Cloudflare just mitigated one of the most powerful DDoS attacks ever
In addition to the attack's size, the use of HTTPS rather than typical HTTP requests further complicated the issue—the secure protocol results in more resource overhead due to the compute-intensive nature of the secure HTTPS request. According to C.....»»
Critical vulnerabilities open Synology, QNAP NAS devices to attack
Users of Synology and QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices are advised to be on the lookout for patches for several critical vulnerabilities affecting Netatalk, an open-source implemention of the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) that allows Unix-li.....»»
New protocol for studying and preserving biodiversity
There are more and more threatened species by the impact of human activity and about a million of them are estimated to be endangered if the rate of biological extinction does not stop. Over the last fifty years, the global rate of extinction of the.....»»
Microsoft Is Disabling SMB1 File-Sharing Protocol in Windows 11 Home
joshuark shares a report: Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system already disables by default SMB (Server Message Block) version 1, the 30-year-old file-sharing protocol. Now the company is doing the same with Windows 11 Home Dev Channel test builds,.....»»
Amazon Is Quietly Developing a "New-To-World" AR Product
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Protocol: Add Amazon to the long list of companies looking to build a more immersive future: The ecommerce giant has been looking to hire a number of people for an unannounced AR/VR product in recent months. A.....»»
DeFi Project Beanstalk Loses $182 Million in Flash Loan Attack
Decentralized finance project Beanstalk Farms suffered one of the largest-ever flash-loan exploits on Sunday, sending its price tumbling. From a report: The credit-focused, Ethereum-based stablecoin protocol suffered a total loss of around $182 milli.....»»
New Callisto Protocol Details Will Be Revealed Soon, Confirms Striking Distance
New details on The Callisto Protocol will be revealed soon, creator Glen Schofield has said. The post New Callisto Protocol Details Will Be Revealed Soon, Confirms Striking Distance appeared first on PlayStation Universe. Glen Schofield has conf.....»»
Advancing maturation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived heart cells
New study outlines scalable protocol to enhance development and understanding of human pluripotent stem cells in cardiac muscles......»»
"The Plain-Text Internet is Coming"
Protocol reports: The web is overrun with junk. This is so obvious, I almost don't need to say it. But I will: Between the pop-ups, the autoplaying videos, the cookie banners, the incessant calls for sign-ups, the coupon offers, the "Don't forget t.....»»
To Help Retain Engineers, Apple Gives $100K-$200K Bonuses
Apple is paying six-figure "special retention grants" to a handful of hardware and software engineers. Protocol reports: The bonuses, anonymous sources told Bloomberg, are worth between $100,000 and more than $200,000 in restricted stock units that v.....»»
Browser-in-the-Browser Attack Can Trick Even Savvy Users
apoc.famine shares a report from Ars Technica: Hundreds of thousands of sites use the OAuth protocol to let visitors login using their existing accounts with companies like Google, Facebook, or Apple. Instead of having to create an account on the new.....»»
Linux Random Number Generator Sees Major Improvements
An anonymous Slashdot reader summarizes some important news from the web page of Jason Donenfeld (creator of the open-source VPN protocol WireGuard): The Linux kernel's random number generator has seen its first set of major improvements in over a d.....»»
A call for community self-governance on digital sequence information sharing
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Nagoya Protocol (NP) are multilateral agreements aimed at conserving biodiversity, promoting sustainable use of biological components, and facilitating the equitable sharing of the benefits arising.....»»