Richard Speed (via Hacker News): Google’s Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has weighed in on the UniSuper fiasco and confirmed that UniSuper’s Private Cloud subscription was accidentally deleted.In a joint statement with UniSuper CEO Peter Chun, Kurian admitted that an “inadvertent misconfiguration” during the provisioning of UniSuper’s Private Cloud services resulted in the deletion of the […]

Michael Potuck: Following the acquisition, Broadcom’s VMware has announced today that Fusion Pro 13 and Workstation Pro 17 have been made free for personal use. […] For commercial use, Broadcom has simplified the VMware options to a single product, which can be purchased through any “Broadcom Advantage” partner. Michael Roy: This means that everyday users […]

Matthew Snyder (via Steve Troughton-Smith): The iPad feels like it’s caught between being the best hardware Apple makes, alongside the most ignored software. Steve Troughton-Smith: Some of the iPad angst isn’t that we have to wait ‘till WWDC to see if the software is improved.It’s that little birdies have strongly hinted to us not to […]

Meysam Firouzi: I reported CVE-2024-27804, an iOS/macOS kernel vulnerability that leads to the execution of arbitrary code with kernel privileges. It’s fixed in iOS 17.5 and macOS 14.5, but Apple says it’s not eligible for the security bounty. Via Hacker News and Jeff Johnson. Previously: iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5 macOS 14.5 Reporting a Full […]

Justin Ling: Zimmermann was a hacker in the oldest sense of the word. In the preceding years, he had grown freaked out by a proposal, put forward by a still-not-young Joe Biden, to force internet companies to give the U.S. government access to their users’ communications. Zimmermann knew it was do-or-die time. Either the internet […]