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Apple Files Lawsuit Against NSO Group for its Pegasus Spyware Attacks
Apple Files Lawsuit Against NSO Group for its Pegasus Spyware Attacks

Apple has announced a lawsuit against NSO Group and its parent company over its Pegasus spyware, seeking to prevent the group from using any of Apple's services and hardware in the future.

NASA Launches DART Asteroid Deflection Mission
NASA Launches DART Asteroid Deflection Mission

NASA just launched the DART spacecraft early Wednesday morning on a mission to test asteroid redirection technology. Next year, it will collide with a space rock called Dimorphos with the aim of changing its orbit.

AMD Allegedly Jacking Up RX 6000 GPU Prices by 10 Percent
AMD Allegedly Jacking Up RX 6000 GPU Prices by 10 Percent

TSMC wafer costs are reportedly causing AMD to up the price it charges its board partners for RX 6000 series GPUs.

Super-Powered Gameboy Advance Runs PS1 Games
Super-Powered Gameboy Advance Runs PS1 Games

Alfonso hacked the Gameboy Advance by moving its game processing and rendering to a custom cartridge, which contained a Raspberry Pi 3 with a PlayStation emulator.

Rolls-Royce ‘Spirit of Innovation’ All-Electric Aircraft Smashes World Records in Latest Flight
Rolls-Royce ‘Spirit of Innovation’ All-Electric Aircraft Smashes World Records in Latest Flight

Rolls-Royce has been working on an all-electric plane, and they report that it absolutely clobbered several world records in their latest test flights at the UK's Boscombe Downs aerodrome.

Report: Windows on ARM Is Exclusive to Qualcomm, But Not For Much Longer
Report: Windows on ARM Is Exclusive to Qualcomm, But Not For Much Longer

According to a new report from XDA Developers, Microsoft has an exclusivity agreement with Qualcomm that prevents other vendors' ARM designs from integrating with Windows. That's the bad news. The good news is it will expire soon.

NASA Delays Webb Telescope Launch Following an ‘Incident’
NASA Delays Webb Telescope Launch Following an ‘Incident’

Following a minor "incident," NASA has pushed the launch of Webb back by four days. That will give the team time to check for damage one last time before launch.

Newly Announced Exoplanet-Hunting Space Telescope Funded by Breakthrough Initiative
Newly Announced Exoplanet-Hunting Space Telescope Funded by Breakthrough Initiative

What do space telescopes, centaurs, and ostriches have in common? More than you'd think.

WSJ: Samsung’s New $17B Chip Plant Will be in Taylor, TX
WSJ: Samsung’s New $17B Chip Plant Will be in Taylor, TX

Samsung has been preparing to build a new US-based chip plant for a while now, but details about its plans have been few and far between.

Wear OS Is Growing Again, and Google Has Samsung to Thank
Wear OS Is Growing Again, and Google Has Samsung to Thank

This fall, Samsung launched the Galaxy Watch4 line, its first smartwatches running Android since 2014. Last summer, Wear OS was languishing at four percent of smartwatch shipments, and now it's at 17 percent, according to Counterpoint Research.

Owners Resort to Hacking Smart Treadmills After NordicTrack Locks Them Out
Owners Resort to Hacking Smart Treadmills After NordicTrack Locks Them Out

After customers started installing their own apps on the company's $4,000 X32i smart treadmill, NordicTrack released a software update that locked them out. Owners aren't happy.

Winamp Prepares to Relaunch: Can it Still Whip the Llama in 2021?
Winamp Prepares to Relaunch: Can it Still Whip the Llama in 2021?

The owners of WinAmp are making a nostalgia play, but is that enough to drive interest in a several decade-old MP3 player? Lavishing attention on a llama's backside may not be enough.