The attack creates a large OPFS file on the victim’s SSD, with both Chrome and Safari allowing a website to claim up to 60% of total disk space through OPFS, which on a 256GB drive is over 150GB.
Am I reading this right? 60% of all your disk space can be confiscated by some random web site? I gotta figure out how to get my browser cache onto some tiny partition.
Nearly 50,000 residents of Lake Tahoe, a popular tourist destination in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, have been told their utility company will stop providing them with electricity in 2027. The utility, NV Energy, will instead use that power for data centers in northern Nevada, one of the fastest growing data center corridors in the nation and where Google, Microsoft and Apple have all either built or planned facilities, Fortune reported. Residents have until next May to find a new electric provider.
Wow, that’s rather appalling. Ars has a longer write-up about it.
My band plays charity gigs at nursing homes, and they seem to love the Wii! They’ll have like Wii Sports nights and stuff.
I’m getting on in years a bit myself. I have no problem with strategy/sim type games, but those where you can’t afford to even blink are beginning to test my stamina. Though my wife recently got me into Diablo IV, and I seem to be doing better with that. Maybe because it doesn’t use a 1st person perspective?