DefenseNews

John Phelan out as Navy secretary, Pentagon says

John Phelan is out as the secretary of the Navy, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. Phelan, who this week attended the Navy League’s annual Sea-Air-Space symposium in Washington, is departing the role “effective immediately,” Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell announced. U.S. Navy Undersecretary Hung Cao, a former Virginia Senate candidate and special operations veteran, will assume the…
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ComputersNews

Framework just made Oculink impossible to ignore

Thunderbolt’s rival, Oculink, has always suffered from a big problem: the lack of PCs that choose to support it. Now this high-speed external I/O connection for gamers has found support from an unexpected source in Framework, the modular PC manufacturer. Framework said Tuesday that it’s creating its Oculink Dev Kit kit to support the nascent standard, with plans to implement it inside the…
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ComputersNews

Firefox 150 turns its PDF viewer into a real PDF editor

With Firefox’s latest version 150 update for Windows, macOS, and Linux, Mozilla has introduced few genuinely new features but some noteworthy improvements. The split view is easier to use, the built-in PDF viewer is increasingly evolving into a PDF editor, and the…
CryptoNews

Certik Analyst: KelpDAO Exploit Reveals High-Stakes Shift in Cross-Chain Cybercrime

In a Nutshell On April 18 the Arbitrum Security Council and SEAL 911 froze 30,766 ETH after Kelp DAO’s rsETH bridge was exploited by the Lazarus Group, which used falsely minted rsETH as Aave collateral to borrow WETH, creating systemic bad debt; $71M recovered, $220M remains missing. Blockchain analyst Wenzhao Dong observed that the Lazarus Group demonstrated a sophisticated grasp of…
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NewsPhotography

Every photographer should try abstract photography – it teaches you camera skills like no other genre

Abstract photography may not be everyone’s first choice – but it can make anyone a better photographer. And that comes down to three simple reasons. As a genre, abstract photography is incredibly dynamic. It offers endless opportunities to experiment, push creative boundaries, and truly understand how images work. Photography began largely as a documentary medium, but abstraction has long…
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