Piet's Daily Digest

We’ve talked on a number of occasions about the problem with USB-C cables: namely, they all look alike but can have very different capabilities. Google addressed this issue in Chrome OS several years ago, and we sugges…

Since its founding, Sam Altman's OpenAI has been at the center of multiple controversies, with Apple's intellectual property theft suit being just the latest chapter. Here's the story so far about what's been alleged ove…

Apple stock slid significantly downwards in the wake of the WWDC keynote, with some attributing that to disappointment in the company’s AI announcements. While we disagreed with that analysis, investors do now seem to …

An open letter written by Tim Cook back in 2014 contrasted Apple with ad-funded services where customers are the product. That letter has been removed from the company’s website ahead of ads coming to Apple Maps for the …

Meta has spent nine months pressing Apple to open up to rivals the way it pairs devices like AirPods, and won't take Apple's excuses for an answer.…

Apple has acquired certain assets and hired employees from SigScalr, the company behind the observability app SigLens. Here are the details.…

Apple's iPhone shipments rose 3% in the second quarter of 2026 even as the global smartphone market fell 11% to its lowest second-quarter level since 2013.…

It’s not every day that a new Apple TV app arrives for tvOS. WordPress just released WordPress TV, bringing video content to the big screen.…

According to a new Counterpoint Research report, Apple grew iPhone shipments by 3% year over year and captured a record 20% share of global smartphone shipments despite an industry-wide downturn. Here are the details.…

CrashStealer, a newly documented Mac infostealer, used an Apple-notarized meeting app to reach victims before stealing passwords, browser data and cryptocurrency credentials behind a fake system prompt.…

The European Union is proposing to ban under 13 year olds from using social media apps, with a plan for “phased and gradual access” for teenagers. While most social media apps claim to have a minimum age of 13, this is…

New verb carries request content while remaining safe, idempotent, and cacheable…

Vendor insists there's no evidence of unauthorized access, but it's asking customers to take one of the most drastic precautions available…

We are shipping patched kernels for two serious Linux kernel vulnerabilities and would like your help verifying them before they go to production. The first, Januscape (CVE-2026-53359), is a flaw in……

Following the recent GA of the AWS M9g series as the first instances powered by the new Graviton5 CPUs, I recently ran benchmarks looking at Graviton4 vs. Graviton5 CPU performance. There was very nice generational gains…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in the iCagenda and Balbooa Forms extensions for Joomla to achieve remote code execution through a…

Cisco has some unusual challenges when it comes to deploying security patches across the company's many devices running custom kernels. John Fastabend spoke about his work preventing exploits with BPF at the 2026 Linux S…

Debian has announced the final normal update for Debian 12 ("bookworm"). Long-term-support updates will continue until 2028. As may be expected from a stable version, the update is mostly limited to security fixes. Still…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, libxfont, mesa, opam, and wireless-regdb), Fedora (acl, attr, chromium, cjson, composer, docker-compose, jfrog-cli, librabbitmq, libssh2, libXfont2, log4cxx, OpenIma…

GNOME developers working on GNOME OS have received funding from Germany's Prototype Fund to work on creating the GNOME OS "Developer Tool Suite" or also tentatively called their "Test Center" to help in testing experimen…

Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry han…

While the Raspberry Pi 5 is already over two and a half years old, one of the missing elements of its support from the mainline Linux kernel has been the IOMMU driver. We are now seeing Raspberry Pi's downstream IOMMU dr…

‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’…

WhatCable does the job for free.…

WhatCable does the job for free.…

A long delay of the Warner Bros Discovery merger could cost Paramount hundreds of millions.…

One in three new EVs sold is a Tesla.…

‘We need age-appropriate restrictions on platforms,’ said EU leader Ursula von der Leyen.…

Apple makes several scathing claims against its former employees and OpenAI.…

Why Xinzhou Wu thinks cars will drive themselves soon…

A price that’s a bit less silly during RAMageddon.…

It’s beta season.…

“Less chatty”…

The Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (MSTR) has now gone three consecutive weeks without buying any BTC. On Monday, Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor announced the company increased its US dollar reserve by $450 million ove…

A lack of spot buying pressure indicated XRP could soon fall below the $1 round-number level.…

A Treasury-backed report targets putting repo, gilts and funds onchain within two years, and warms to permissionless networks that firms like Ripple have been building on.…

A leading stablecoin issuer has secured federal approval to launch a dedicated trust bank for digital asset custody services. Circle Internet Group says it has received final approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptrol…

A Florida businessman has admitted to orchestrating a cryptocurrency fraud that drained hundreds of millions of dollars from investors. The CEO of Orlando-based Goliath Ventures, formerly known as Gen-Z Venture Firm, has…

July 13th, 2026 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates class=”ql-align-justify”>Byreal, a decentralised exchange incubated by Bybit, today marked its first anniversary since launching on the Solana testnet on 30 June 2025. Over t…

A foreign national has admitted his central role in ransomware attacks that disrupted businesses across the United States. The defendant, extradited from abroad, entered the plea in federal court on charges of conspiracy…

July 13th, 2026 – VICTORIA, Seychelles Global crypto trading platform BYDFi participated in Peru Blockchain Conference 2026, held July 10-11 at JW Marriott Larcomar in Miraflores, Lima. Now in its 5th edition, the event …

Security researchers are turning artificial intelligence into a powerful new tool for protecting blockchain infrastructure. The Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol Security team says it’s running a fleet of coordinated AI age…

A person ​was ‌killed on Monday ​in ​a shooting ⁠involving ​U.S. Immigration ​and Customs Enforcement ​in ​Biddeford, Maine, U.S. media ‌outlets ⁠reported, citing the ​state's ​speaker ⁠of the House.…

British police ​said on ‌Monday they arrested ​12 people ​as part of ⁠an ​investigation which they ​described as "extreme right-wing terrorism-related", and ​was ​linked to a ‌suspected ⁠threat directed towards an Islami…

California and 11 states are suing to block Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery , alleging the deal would lessen competition in film distribution ​and cable television, harming theaters and pay…

The U.S. Department of Justice ​and the Pentagon ‌have created a joint task force ​to identify and ​prosecute what Defense Secretary ⁠Pete Hegseth ​described as unauthorized disclosure ​of sensitive information to news m…

California Governor Gavin Newsom ​signed legislation Monday to ‌create state rebates of $3,500 on new ​electric vehicles for ​first-time buyers later this ⁠summer as U.S. ​sales have slowed.…

The cost of building solar power projects in the United States has jumped 18% from a year earlier as tariffs, elevated interest ​rates and other cost pressures take hold, but the renewable energy source remains ‌the chea…

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has received a letter from Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren about whether he lobbied the UK government against a tax on bankers' bonuses on the advice of Jeffrey Epstein, the Financial ​Times …

The U.S. Supreme Court handed a major legal victory to German agrichemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer last month when it reined in thousands of lawsuits accusing the German company of failing to warn users that gly…

The University of Oxford has launched the first human trial of a vaccine against Bundibugyo ebolavirus, seeking to accelerate efforts to ​combat an outbreak spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo ‌and Uganda.…

BlackRock , one of the world's largest asset managers, was sued on Monday by investors who said it ​stuck them with higher management fees and tax bills ‌by using improper accounting that inflated the values of more than…

An Eastern Passage man will remain behind bars until at least Thursday on child sexual abuse charges. Read More…

Former Nova Scotia premier John Hamm has died at the age of 88. Read More…

Lightning is believed to be the cause of two of three wildfires that broke out over the weekend and Monday in the Annapolis Valley region.   Read More…

Nova Scotia midwives are one step closer to being able to offer more health care to patients, but the health minister says the next step would require more money and there isn’t any in the budget to give.…

The Pictou County physician was first elected in 1993 and served as Nova Scotia's 25th premier from 1999 to 2006.…

An internationally recognized program that supports travellers with non-visible disabilities is now available on The CAT and Fundy Rose passenger ferries in Yarmouth and Digby. Read More…

Two youths are dead and another has life-threatening injuries after a crash in Lunenburg County early Saturday.  Read More…

A former correctional officer will learn next month whether he will be sent to prison for trying to smuggle cannabis concentrate into a Nova Scotia jail — contraband a prosecutor says was worth more than $50,000 at the h…

RCMP say a Ford Bronco left the road and hit a tree early Saturday morning.…

A local artist says she is surprised that a Truro, N.S., business association used artificial intelligence to design merchandise for a recent community festival.…

Tens of thousands of country fans made their annual pilgrimage to P.E.I.'s north shore for the Cavendish Beach Music Festival July 9-11. Read More…

How OT Patch Management Got Stuck…

Learn what Kubernetes observability is, how it differs from monitoring, the four pillars, pipeline setup, tools, and best practices for 2026.…

As always, please read through the changelogs before updating with pihole -up Don’t forget, you can use Teleporter to export your configuration. It can be found under the settings menu of the web interface or on the comm…

As always, please read through the changelogs before updating with pihole -up Don’t forget, you can use Teleporter to export your configuration. It can be found under the settings menu of the web interface or on the comm…

As always, please read through the changelogs before updating with pihole -up Don’t forget, you can use Teleporter to export your configuration. It can be found under the settings menu of the web interface or on the comm…

What Information Was Exposed (and What Was Not) The breach is limited to names and email addresses provided during the donation process, when using the form at https://pi-hole.net/donate (now fixed…) It is important to m…

This is a bugfix release for the core Pi-hole code. Fixes Fix issue where web interface cannot run gravity by @PromoFaux in #6345 Fix pihole api command by not setting the some variabes as readonly by @PromoFaux in #6346…

This is a bugfix release for the core Pi-hole code. Fixes Prevent gravity from failing due to an empty shell variable. #6191This fixes a case where calls to pihole -g failed during list downloads. Require privileged stat…

We have now released FTL v6.2.3. This patch release contains fixes for almost all reported bugs (most importantly, it fixes a logging regression where types are missing from pihole.log as well as a crash in filter_server…

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