Day: April 19, 2020

Sale of .Org Registry Stalled for a few weeks After California AG Steps In

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has delayed a decision on whether to allow the sale of the organization that controls .org registrations to a band of private equity ghouls after the California attorney general’s office issued a warning Domain names with .org suffix are used by countless nonprofits, in part because Read more about Sale of .Org Registry Stalled for a few weeks After California AG Steps In[…]

Buyer beware—that 2TB-6TB “NAS” drive you’ve been eyeing might be SMR – and won’t work in your NAS

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Storage vendors, including but reportedly not limited to Western Digital, have quietly begun shipping SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) disks in place of earlier CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) disks. SMR is a technology that allows vendors to eke out higher storage densities, netting more TB capacity on the same number of platters—or fewer platters, for the Read more about Buyer beware—that 2TB-6TB “NAS” drive you’ve been eyeing might be SMR – and won’t work in your NAS[…]

Security lapse exposed creepy Clearview AI source code

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Since it exploded onto the scene in January after a newspaper exposé, Clearview AI quickly became one of the most elusive, secretive and reviled companies in the tech startup scene. The controversial facial recognition startup allows its law enforcement users to take a picture of a person, upload it and match it against its alleged Read more about Security lapse exposed creepy Clearview AI source code[…]