If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now

If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now

Color E Ink in its current state requires a whole lot of compromises, as we’ve found when reviewing devices like reMarkable’s Paper Pro or Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft, including washed-out color, low refresh rates, and a grainy look that you don’t get with regular black-and-white E Ink. But that isn’t stopping device manufacturers from exploring the…

Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering

Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering

Getting the hang of through-hole soldering is tricky for those of us tinkering at home with our irons, spools, flux, and, sometimes, braids. It’s almost reassuring, then, to learn that through-hole soldering was also a pain for a firm that has made more than 60 million products with it. Raspberry Pi boards have a combination…

Sundar Pichai says DOJ demands are a “de facto” spin-off of Google search

Sundar Pichai says DOJ demands are a “de facto” spin-off of Google search

The Department of Justice (DOJ) rested its case in Google’s search remedy trial earlier this week, giving Google a chance to push back on the government’s attempt to break up the search giant. Today is arguably Google’s best chance to make the case that it should not be harshly penalized in the ongoing search antitrust…

Intel says it’s rolling out laptop GPU drivers with 10% to 25% better performance

Intel says it’s rolling out laptop GPU drivers with 10% to 25% better performance

Intel’s oddball Core Ultra 200V laptop chips—codenamed Lunar Lake—will apparently be a one-off experiment, not to be replicated in future Intel laptop chips. They’re Intel’s only processors with memory integrated onto the CPU package; the only ones with a neural processing unit that meets Microsoft’s Copilot+ performance requirements; and the only ones with Intel’s best-performing…

Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk

Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk

Backblaze went public in November 2021 and raised $100 million. Morpheus noted that since then, “Backblaze has reported losses every quarter, its outstanding share count has grown by 80 percent, and its share price has declined by 71 percent.” Following Morpheus’ report, Investing reported on Thursday that Backblaze shares fell 8.3 percent. Beyond the financial…

iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years

iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years

All three of the ChoiceJacking techniques defeat Android juice-jacking mitigations. One of them also works against those defenses in Apple devices. In all three, the charger acts as a USB host to trigger the confirmation prompt on the targeted phone. The attacks then exploit various weaknesses in the OS that allow the charger to autonomously…

“You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy campaign may have used pirated fonts

“You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy campaign may have used pirated fonts

Aquilina, who was speaking generally and not on the specifics of the anti-piracy campaign and its font use, said that using a font from a free source, with an “effectively implied license to use it,” could be “a good defense,” though “not a complete defense.” Typically, a rightsholder would go after websites distributing copies of…

Looming tariffs are making it extra hard to be a tech geek

Looming tariffs are making it extra hard to be a tech geek

Please consider your purchase thoroughly before ordering. Providing more detail around how tariffs impact a company like Qwerteykeys and its customers, the company noted that DHL, its “primary shipping partner,” will start charging a minimum handling fee of 17 percent plus 20 percent of the declared value as import duty starting May 2. Meanwhile, Keyboardio,…