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Jim Salter

Technology Reporter at Ars Technica

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Jim Salter
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Rad Power’s RadWagon 4: A great e-bike at a surprisingly low price

This sub-$2,000 e-bike is thoughtfully designed and a joy to ride.
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Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: It’s a barn burner

Intel’s power-gulping i9-12900K crushes AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950x—even multithreaded.
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The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Lin...

WSL is finally easy to install—and offers automatic sound/graphics support.
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we ...

The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.
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Apple forgot to sanitize the Phone Number field for lost AirTags

Another bug-bounty boondoggle leads to public disclosure before the bug is fixed.
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Examining btrfs, Linux's perpetually half-finished filesystem - Ars...

This btrfs filesystem overview highlights some longstanding shortcomings.
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Three iOS 0-days revealed by researcher frustrated with Apple's bug...

Public disclosure comes in wake of other grumblings about Apple’s bug bounty behavior.

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Exchange/Outlook autodiscover bug exposed 100,000+ email passwords

A flaw in the Autodiscover protocol can expose email passwords to third parties.
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Security audit raises severe warnings on Chinese smartphone models

The audit red-flagged Xiaomi and Huawei phones but gave OnePlus a pass.
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Security researchers at Wiz discover another major Azure vulnerability

A little-known management service handed unauthenticated attackers root access.
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Western Digital introduces new non-SMR 20TB HDDs with onboard NAND

These aren’t “hybrids”—their NAND components aren’t used for user data.
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Linux/BSD command line wizardry: Learn to think in sed, awk, and grep

“Do people really write these long, convoluted commands?” In a word: yes.
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Point-to-point Wi-Fi bridging between buildings—the cheap and easy ...

It cost us ~$100 to wirelessly connect two buildings across a small wooded area.
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Intel leaks show next-gen desktop CPUs with hybrid “big.little” design

Leaked specs show performance and efficiency cores in 12th- and 13th-gen CPUs.
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Not-a-Linux distro review: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to th...

Although it’s nowhere near ready for prime time, there’s a lot to love here.
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Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck will be based on Arch Linux—not Debian

The best Linux gaming happens on the bleeding edge—just where Arch Linux shines.
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Stingle is a privacy-focused, open source photo backup application

The mobile app encrypts your photos before uploading them to the cloud.
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Paragon is working to get its ntfs3 filesystem into the Linux kernel

Torvalds seems bullish on getting Paragon’s project across the line eventually.
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New WireGuardNT shatters throughput ceilings on Windows

Adventurous users can try the new implementation now by adding a registry key.
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Review: Framework’s lightweight modular laptop is a winner

Framework’s laptop isn’t just repairable—it’s a solid laptop in its own right.
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Researchers demonstrate that malware can be hidden inside AI models

Hiding data inside an image classifier is much like hiding it within an image.