Seagate has agreed to a $175 million settlement to resolve a shareholder class-action lawsuit alleging the company violated US export controls by selling over $1.1 billion in hard drives to Huawei. The settlement, filed in San Francisco federal court, still requires judicial approval.
A new technique called FROST allows websites to measure telltale SSD activity in the browser using JavaScript, potentially enabling new forms of user surveillance.
Police found jewelry, watches, and hard drives in a safe in former President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's office during a search related to the 'caso Plus Ultra' investigation into influence peddling.
A pseudonymous X user, Cprkrn, recovered 5 Bitcoin (~$320,000) with the help of Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude after being unable to access it for over a decade. Claude aided in searching through vast personal data to find a critical wallet backup file and derive a forgotten password.
Malware repositories vx-underground (30TB) and VirusTotal (31PB) are visualized in terms of stacked hard drives, comparing their heights to landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Burj Khalifa.
Malware repositories vx-underground (30TB) and VirusTotal (31PB) are compared in scale by hypothetically stacking 1TB hard drives, revealing VirusTotal's data would form a structure nearly as tall as the Burj Khalifa.
Kelvin Evans, 41, sentenced to 2 years in prison and 3 years probation for stealing unreleased Beyoncé music from a rented car in Atlanta, Georgia.
Twenty-five years after the original iPod launched, a nostalgia-driven revival is underway. Google searches for MP3 players tripled since last fall, and a Reddit community for digital audio players draws 90,000 weekly visitors. Startup founder Tom Kell is launching Sleevenote, a $200 device with a 4-inch square screen that prioritizes album art and full album playback over playlists and algorithms. The device targets the millions who buy music on Bandcamp and similar platforms, capitalizing on streaming backlash and subscription fatigue.
