Raspberry Pi won't let you swap the RAM on your SBC because you may swap it with memory of "dubious origin"

Telling censorship from outages: probing Russia's internet from both sides of the border

When something stops loading in Russia, there are two very different explanations. The service might be down for everyone. Or it might be up everywhere except inside Russia.

Shutdown.fyi tracks internet access in Russia vs. abroad
Compares TLS handshake, TCP connection, HTTP response
Differentiates between blocked-tls and blocked-tcp scenarios

2h ago ·dev.to

Uber Redesigns M3DB Sharding with Subclusters to Limit Failure Impact

Uber has redesigned shard placement in M3DB with fixed size subclusters to limit the impact of node failures, maintenance, and cluster scaling.

2h ago ·infoq.com

Q&A with Mark Gurman on the iPhone Duo, breaking Apple news, new AI-native devices, Tim Cook staying as executive chair, John Ternus, Johny Srouji, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Today, I'm talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world's best-sourced Apple reporter — both as Bloomberg's chief Apple correspondent …

2h ago ·theverge.com

Reverse-Engineering Flock Cameras

Hackers captured a Flock camera and got a look (alternate link ) at the software: While much of the automatic license plate reader’s (ALPR) most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible…

2h ago ·schneier.com

Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini

Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets and other parts of the desktop experience.

Google unveils $899 Googlebook pre-order for AI capabilities
Googlebook features AI-powered cursor and Rambler dictation
Pre-orders available in U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, Australia

2h ago ·techcrunch.com

I'm the dev who messes shit up on Figma. I'm sorry. I do not do it on purpose.