Woodstock Wire: Tech Tickler

Enterprise -- GoogleCloud - The world of digital commerce is rapidly evolving. To stay competitive, businesses need the ability to integrate their commerce systems with a wide array of applications and services. Furthermore, customers expect targeted and personalized...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - The newest iPad Air may be an iterative upgrade on paper, but several new features make it still the tablet most people should buy.

Enterprise -- Computerworld - It may or may not have hit you yet, but brace yourself: It's coming.



As we speak, Google's in the midst of bringing its Gemini-powered generative-AI obsession into its most prominent and powerful product - and that's...

EE -- Hackaday - According to Smithsonian Magazine, a salvage company in London was cleaning out a property and found an odd-looking computer device. No one knew what it was, and they couldn't find anything with a quick online search. The devices in question...

Tech -- AmateurLogic.TV - AmateurLogic.TV Episode 193 is now available for download.

George and Mike's Excellent Adventure to Dayton Hamvention 2024.

New radios, old radios, mystery radio and friends. Take your best guess at what new radio Icom has under glass....

gizmag -- Although snapshots of the B-21 Raider nuclear bomber in flight have been taken previously by the public in the vicinity of Edwards Air Force Base in California, these weren't with permission. Now the United States Air Force has released the first official...

Tech -- The Verge - Google is now letting users securely share passwords with members of their own family group over the internet, making it easier for everyone in the household to access passwords for shared...

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - At Google I/O this month, the ChromeOS team shared some cool stuff on the way for Chromebooks, and this particular feature is definitely one to keep an eye on. Tabbed Mode for PWAs is something you may not know you need until you have...

Tech -- The Verge - Google is making a new "Add to Chromebook" badge that's designed to make it easier for ChromeOS users to find and install progressive web apps (PWAs) and Android...

Enterprise -- Computerworld - What's the most important piece of productivity software in the business world? Some might say the office suite. But if you look at the time spent actually using software, the answer may well be the web browser. It's...

Tech -- The Verge - The annual refreshes of Android and iOS are always worth looking out for, and in the wake of Google I/O 2024, we now have the second beta release of Android 15, so it's a good opportunity...

Tech -- The Verge - At Microsoft's big AI and Surface event on May 20th, the company takes another shot at Arm Windows PCs.

Tech -- The Verge - Signing in is about to get more convenient in Android 15 and Wear OS 5.

Tech -- Chrome Unboxed - Global Accessibility Awareness Day is here and Google is taking this day to reaffirm their commitment to inclusivity and accessibility. The company's Products for All Accessibility team is central to this mission and has been working...

Tech -- The Verge - The social network formerly known as Twitter has officially adopted X.com for all its core systems. That means typing twitter.com in your browser will now redirect to Elon Musk's favored domain, or should. At the time...

ReadWriteWeb -- Google is introducing a new artificial intelligence (AI) that can tell if your phone gets grabbed from your hand or...

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Media -- The Next Web - Business execs and politicians gathered at a helicopter base in France yesterday for the first public unveiling of Airbus' new Racer aircraft. At first glance, Racer looks like a regular helicopter. Look closer, however, and you'll notice...

gizmag -- Lockheed Martin's paradoxically famous/secret Skunk Works has released the first image of its futuristic stealth tanker aircraft designed to refuel US and allied warplanes at long distances close to combat zones sometime in the 2040s.

Enterprise -- OMG! Ubuntu! - VMware has made its professional virtualisation software free to use on Windows, macOS, and Linux - for personal use only, though. For Windows and Linux users that means VMware Workstation Pro 17 is now readily available without cost, while...

Enterprise -- Planet Ubuntu - The world of amateur radio has always been closely tied to technological innovation, and in recent years, Linux has become an essential tool in the ham shack. From digital modes and logging to software-defined radio (SDR) and satellite...

Enterprise -- VMblog - By Craig Theriac - There is a growing need for fast, reliable, and efficient computing systems. With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the...

Enterprise -- OMG! Ubuntu! - Mozilla Firefox 126 is now available download, and in-app updates beginning to roll out to existing users on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. As Firefox updates go the 126 release is rather light on user-facing goodies, especially versus...

EE -- Hackaday - [Alex R2AUK] has been busy creating version two of a homebrew all-band ham radio transceiver. The unit has a number of features you don't always see in homebrew radios. It covers the 80, 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12, and 10 meter bands. The receiver...

Think -- MIT Technology Review - We finally know the result of a legal case I've been tracking in Hong...

Tech -- The Verge - Raspberry Pi prepares for a $630 million IPO.



British minicomputer manufacturer Raspberry Pi has announced plans to file for a UK stock market listing, saying the initial public offering would allow the...

Tech -- NY Times Technology - Google and Samsung used to update smartphone software for only three years. That has changed.

Business Wire -- The way people pay and get paid has changed more in the past five years than in the last 50. Consumers have evolved, adapting to new payment experiences - from the advent of embedded, digital commerce to the rapid adoption of "the tap." Today at the annual...

Business Wire -- The way people pay and get paid has changed more in the past five years than in the last 50. Consumers have evolved, adapting to new payment experiences - from the advent of embedded, digital commerce to the rapid adoption of "the tap." Today at the annual...

Tech -- Liliputing - The Raspberry Pi 5 is the first single-board computer from Raspberry Pi with a PCIe interface that allows you to connect high-speed accessories including storage devices and AI accelerators. But you need an add-on board to actually make use...

Infosec -- Security Affairs - Apple rolled out urgent security updates to address code execution vulnerabilities in iPhones, iPads, and macOS.



Apple released urgent security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in iPhones, iPads, macOS. The company also...

Media -- PYMNTS.com - Squarespace is going private in a $6.9 billion deal with private equity firm Permira.

Subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, the transaction is expected to close by the fourth quarter, Squarespace said in...

Tech -- Liliputing - You can already run Android apps on most Chromebooks, thanks to an optional feature that basically installed Google's mobile operating system as a subsystem of Google's laptop and desktop OS. Soon you may also be able to run ChromeOS on Android...

Tech -- The Verge - Denon Home smart speakers now support Apple's Siri voice assistant.



Way back in 2021, Ecobee's thermostats became the first non-Apple device to integrate Siri voice control into its hardware, following Apple's making the...

Life -- Phys.org - CubeSats are satellites constructed of cubic units, or U, a bit smaller than a square tissue box, or about 10 centimeters (about 4 inches) on each side. (A 2U CubeSat, for instance, is about the size of a rectangular tissue box.) Initially...

Enterprise -- OMG! Ubuntu! - The recent Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release has garnered plenty of praise for its great performance on Intel/AMD hardware, both does the latest version runs as well on the ARM-based Raspberry Pi? I'm pleased to say it does. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for...

EE -- Hackaday - When the United States launched the KH-9 Hexagon spy satellite into orbit atop a Titan IIID rocket in 1974, it brought a calibration target along for the ride: the Infra-Red Calibration Balloon (IRCB) S73-7. This 66 cm (26 inch) diameter inflatable...

Media -- Fox - Tech - Imagine you're about to zip up your suitcase for a much-awaited vacation, and there's your four-legged companion gazing up at you with those soulful eyes. The thought of leaving them behind tugs at your heartstrings, especially when the only...

Tech -- The Verge - Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 37, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, send me links, and also, you can read all the old editions at the...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - With Android 15 due later this year, I've been trying out the beta for weeks now. These are the features I'm most excited about.

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Enterprise -- InfoQ - GitHub has released two features to improve the security and resilience of repositories. The first feature allows Dependabot to run as a GitHub Actions workflow using hosted and self-hosted runners. The second release introduces the public beta...

Enterprise -- CRN - Updates on Lightspeed, OpenShift AI and Nvidia partnership.

Tech -- ExtremeTech - SpaceX has now completed 83 Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.

Infosec -- Security Affairs - A critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the Tinyproxy service potentially impacted 50,000 Internet-Exposing hosts.



Researchers from Cisco Talos reported a use-after-free vulnerability in the HTTP Connection Headers parsing...

Infosec -- The Hacker News - A high-severity flaw impacting the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress is being actively exploited by threat actors to create rogue admin accounts on susceptible websites.

The findings come from WPScan, which said that the vulnerability...

Infosec -- Schneier on Security - This attack has been feasible for over two decades:

Researchers have devised an attack against nearly all virtual private network applications that forces them to send and receive some or all traffic outside of the encrypted tunnel...

Tech -- The Verge - Also, this is barely purple.



When I see the word Air attached to an Apple product, I assume two things: it's going to be thin and light. You can't really assume that with the just-announced iPad Airs. For one, both the 11-inch...

Tech -- The Verge - Not a SIM tray in sight on the new iPad Pro.



Apple giveth OLED screens, and Apple taketh away... SIM cards. As spotted by 9to5Mac, Apple has removed the physical SIM slot on the cellular versions of the...

Business Wire -- Apple(r) today announced M4, the latest chip delivering phenomenal performance to the all-new iPad Pro(r). Built using second-generation 3-nanometer technology, M4 is a system on a chip (SoC) that advances the industry-leading power efficiency of Apple...