The connection between Cap’n Crunch, phone system hacking, and Apple is a pretty important part of early hacking history.

This is exactly why lazily throwing your game’s text into a machine translation tool is not the same as hiring an actual localisation specialist.

I guess thieves found a way to circumvent it, otherwise it wouldn’t make sense

Even if they haven’t (yet), it’s still a recent development. There are plenty of old models out there without it, not to mention Android phones which hold the majority market share in the UK.

(it’s British Broadcasting Corporation)

As others said, this looks like a fake drive sold as a scam. Chances are high the drive controller has been modified to report incorrect values. Any data written to that space beyond its actual capacity will either overwrite existing data or go straight to dev/null

A word for this is ‘backronym’

I don’t necessarily disagree, but this reads a bit like some of the comments on those old Slashdot threads clowning on the first smartphones.

‘these things will fail, I already have a camera, a cellphone, and an mp3 player, why would anyone want them all in one device?’

Social media has acclimatised us to echo chambers and curated algorithmic feeds that rarely, if ever, serve up content that challenges our views.

Ah yes, I too remember the part of 1984 in which Big Brother improved Oceania’s outdated train ticketing system.

Unfortunately this was added to the gamescom b2b meeting platform, used by actual game developers and publishers to organise actual meetings with each other at the event. It’s not a throwaway marketing email to be sent straight to junk; it affected everyone using the system for genuine business purposes.

They’re still doing ‘pay up or allow all cookies’ popups, so definitely not good on them as far as I’m concerned.

Personally, I’d rather have a robust and up-to-date set of consumer protections rather than leaving everything up to ‘buyer beware’.

Nowhere in the article or the original report does it say this is specific to Apple devices.

Why? It’s just short for application, which has been used to mean a computer program for decades.

Does 400 charge cycles really amount to just over a year of use for most people? I’m assuming one cycle means a full power cycle, not just a top up.

For reference (and I understand it’s a bit apples to oranges) I’ve had my iPhone 15 since Dec 2023 and charge it every night and it’s currently showing 125 charge cycles.

Not to kill the vibe (if you’re having fun then by all means continue) but replying is probably the worst thing you can do - all you’re doing is telling the spammers that you have an active email address, so they’ll send more spam.

Not if your chosen reference frame is a hand and a ball, as per the example

The billionaires’ various acts of performative space tourism are dumb to be sure, but they’re just a drop in the ocean for this specific issue.

It’s not just down, it’s gone:

News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline

Why save 2 clicks when you could save 3?

The menu item in question reads as follows:

Chicken Pops

Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus; common in childhood.