ProtonMail Launches Tor Onion Site to Evade State Censorship

Encrypted email provider ProtonMail has launched its own onion address, allowing users to access the service over the Tor anonymizing network (via TechCrunch). The Swiss-based email account provider, which has more than 2 million users, said the …

Nintendo to Release Fire Emblem Heroes for iOS on February 2nd [Video]

Nintendo has announced that Fire Emblem Heroes will be its next game for iOS and that it will launch on February 2nd, 2017.Fire Emblem Heroes is an original strategy RPG about two warring kingdoms in a bitter clash. As a summoner, players build thei…

Insecure Hadoop installs next in 'net scum crosshairs

Because MongoDB, Elasticsearch ransomware attacks are sooo last week Rinse-and-repeat ransomware attacks on data services left unsecured by dozy sysadmins are now hitting Hadoop instances.…

Fujifilm's X-T20 is an affordable, compact take on the X-T2

Fujifilm has unveiled the X-T20, a successor to the popular X-T10 that improves on it in nearly every way. The old 16-megapixel sensor and processor have been updated to the 24.3-megapixel X-Trans III, the same as the one on the world-beati…

Fujifilm's X100F should be its best fixed-lens camera to date

The X100 has, since its inception, been for many the ultimate compact camera. Originally released in 2010, it was the first entry to Fujifilm's X-series of digital cameras, pairing classic aesthetics with a 23mm (35mm equivalent) prime lens…

Idiot Tasked With Maintaining America's Nukes Surprised to Learn What His Job Is

In December, Rick Perry enthusiastically accepted the nomination to be Donald Trump’s secretary of energy—unfortunately for both Perry and the American people, he had no idea what the fuck he was signing up for. According to a New York Times report,…

Reports: Aperture

Capture One as abandoned Aperture replacement

Reports: Displays

dual 5K displays and related issues/info; LG display USB ports

Reports: MacBook Pro

17-inch display vs. Retina 15-inch

Reports: macOS Sierra

Spotlight vs. VeraCrypt

Reports: Microsoft security

changes: security bulletin elimination

Reports: Privacy

crossing the creepy line

Reports: Security

text message crashes iOS devices

Reports: SSD performance

data compression vs. write speed

Krebs pinpoints the likely author of the Mirai botnet

The Mirai botnet caused serious trouble last fall, first hijacking numerous IoT devices to make a historically massive Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) attack on KrebsOnSecurity's site in September before taking down a big chunk of the …

Germany grapples with fake news ahead of elections

Netflix Beats Subscription Rate Predictions By One Third As Shares Reach All-Time High

Netflix added over a third more subscribers than expected in the last quarter of 2016, streaming video service revealed yesterday. According to its latest Q4 letter to shareholders, Netflix signed up 7.1 million new subscribers worldwide, almost two…

Lite-On Semiconductor to Provide Wireless Charging Components for iPhone 8

Lite-On Semiconductor is to provide integrated chip components for the next-generation "iPhone 8" that will support fast wireless charging, according to a new report out today. According to Chinese-language paper Commercial Times, the Taiwan-base…

A drive and a partition: How to understand the difference when erasing Mac disks

Carmela writes in with a question after wiping a 2010 MacBook Pro and reinstalling macOS: I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but while erasing the disk I erased not only “Macintosh HD” but the “Hitachi…” What have I done? I reinstalled…

Hulu CEO talks upcoming live streaming TV bundle & offline viewing support in new interview

At the end of last year, Netflix updated its iOS app with long-awaited support for offline playback and now Hulu is planning to do the same. In a new interview with Adweek, Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins touched on Hulu’s plans for offline viewing, a stream…

The Information: ‘Google to Expand Mid-Range “Android One” Program Into U.S.’