Apple says it supports competition, privacy, and repair. AirPods say “not for you.” From EU feature lockouts to batteries you can’t replace, we unpack Apple’s most disposable design at the link below.
https://www.ifixit.com/News/115572/apple-airpods-and-malicious-compliance
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#iFixit #RightoRepair #FixTheWorld
my friend @asciimoo built a thing again \o/ and it's great as always. read his own thoughts on this at https://hister.org/posts/how-i-cut-my-google-search-dependence-in-half/
and engage with the cringe on the orange site at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46959554
This multi-part blog series is discussing an undocumented feature of Windows: instrumentation callbacks (ICs).
In part 4 we cover ICs from a more theoretical standpoint. Mainly restrictions on unsetting them, how set ICs can be detected and how new ones can be prevented from being set.
Learn more at https://cirosec.de/en/news/windows-instrumentation-callbacks-part-4/
The Cycle 2 deadline for the USENIX WOOT Conference is in ~ 4 weeks (March 3, 2026)!
WOOT continues to include both a Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) track and an Up-and-Coming track (industry-focused).
Details are available in the Call for Papers:
https://lnkd.in/gK2RGj-h
It's pretty insane how we live in an age where everything needs to be monetized; every single tear of knowledge must be consecrated to the mighty god of money throught crappy trainings and certificates.
Annie Rauwerda, creator of Depths of Wikipedia, lives for the internet’s weirdest footnotes.
That includes things like the long-gone Garfield the cat “G-Mail,” 🙀📬 a very real web oddity now preserved only on the #WaybackMachine.
Internet history is stranger—and more fragile—than it looks.
Additional reason delete Discord account: Just a few months back someone pilfered all of the ID they'd already collected.
So of course they're asking for more of it.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/discord-says-hackers-stole-government-ids-of-70000-users/
I am losing it at how many of my peers have forgotten what software engineering is. It is not typing in lines of code.