With sources indicating that North Korea's Lazarus Group were behind the recent cryptocurrency theft from Bybit, it's worth revisiting the BBC's series of podcasts, "The Lazarus Heist". Originally produced in two sets for 2021 and 2023, these podcasts are both entertaining and educational as to the activities of hacking groups and how they achieve their goals. These are highly trained,
NPR reported that Twitter CEO Elon Musk said the platform’s recent labeling of NPR as “state-affiliated media” might not have been accurate during a series of email exchanges that provided a glimpse into the billionaire’s thought process on decisions that reverberate far beyond the social network.
If there's one thing that you'd expect the BBC to get right, it would be the news. Ask people in the street about BBC news and you'd expect words like authoritative, impartial, insightful, confident and trustworthy to litter the responses. But going by the number of one star reviews on the BBC's Alexa flash briefing, it looks (and sounds) like
If you don't believe the adage "If it's free, you're the product" then you need to go and look at the BBC's foot-stomping and whining at Google. The BBC has pulled its podcasts from the Google ecosystem and in a blog post, Kieran Clifton, the BBC's Director of Distribution and Business Development, explains why. He says, "Google has since begun
The rapid advance of technology might seem to be the defining feature of today's world but tech is only one piece of a complex puzzle. From lightbulbs to TV dinners, shipping containers and public key cryptography, the BBC World Service reveals Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy. The programmes are a little under 10 minutes long and examine an
My love of audio extends back to childhood, listening to late night radio shows under the covers while the rest of the house slept. Living not far from France, I'd pick up foreign channels, their exotic chatter filling the airwaves. For me, podcasts represent the current evolutionary peak, the ability to listen to whatever I want, from wherever in the
If you own a pet, you know what the urine smells like. Apparently, so do Dell Lattitude 6430u users. They started complaining the smell on the messageboards. Turned out, Dell confirmed the smell is real (but not really urine). "The smell is not related to cat urine or any other type of biological contaminant, nor is it a health hazard,"