At the heart of Apple’s shocking FaceTime bug, which allowed just about anyone to turn an iPhone into a live microphone, stands a 14-year-old boy who stumbled upon the eavesdropping flaw more than a week before Apple took action. “The thing that surprised me the most was that this glitch happened in the first place,” […]
Security firm Trend Micro has discovered 29 malicious beauty camera apps that aim to phish user traffic and steal your photos. The apps have already been removed by Google from the Play Store, but only after accumulating millions of downloads. Once installed, some of the apps would load up full-screen advertisements for fraudulent or pornographic […]
The Godfather Yoshua Bengio, a computer scientist who’s widely considered one of the three “godfathers” of deep learning, opened up in a new interview with Bloomberg about his anxiety about how China is using the technology he helped develop to surveil and manipulate large populations. “This is the 1984 Big Brother scenario,” he told the […]
It looks like the nasty eavesdropping bug discovered in FaceTime last week is going to get patched up in the coming days. Since the security vulnerability was made public, Apple has disabled Group FaceTime while it sorts out the mess. For those just getting up to speed, the bug allowed users to listen in on […]
The Samsung Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10+ made their way through the FCC this week as we get closer to a February 20 unveiling. I’m not sure that the news is all that exciting, since we know so much about these phones and have seen them plenty, but here they are. The Galaxy S10 will arrive in three model numbers […]
When Nintendo launched Switch some years back, it seemed the Japanese game had found a worthy successor to the Wii. The company cut its forecast for annual Switch shipments for the fiscal year from 20 million units to 17 million, an indication that the hybrid console might be struggling to acquire new users. The company […]
Spotify may be in discussions to acquire Gimlet Media and its roster of beloved podcasts, including titles like Reply All and Crimetown. Recode’s Peter Kafka reported Friday that the music streaming giant is currently courting Gimlet for a deal worth more than $200 million, citing unnamed sources. Kafka noted that the acquisition would be significant […]
Apple has restored Google’s access to its internal iOS apps, including pre-release beta versions of Maps, Hangouts and Gmail, as well as employee-only apps for the company’s cafes and buses. Apple temporarily banned Google from running the apps on Thursday. It emerged this week Google used enterprise certificates (which developers are only supposed to use […]
Google’s social media network, Google+, will officially shut down on April 2, the company announced this week. All Google+ accounts and pages will be shut down and deleted starting on April 2, Google said in a statement on Wednesday. Citing low usage and challenges to maintain a “successful product,” Google announced last year that it […]
Just like Kodak and Pepsi, Energizer is the latest mainstream brand that is becoming a smartphone brand. It’s planning to release a whopping 26 models at Mobile World Congress in a few weeks, two of which have pop-up cameras. Unlike most phones debuting with these fancy mechanisms, neither is particularly high-end. The two phones with […]
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview with RAW image file and light theme improvements. The update bumps Windows 10 from build 18323 (made available to testers on January 24) to build 18329. These builds are from the 19H1 branch, which represents the Windows 10 update that will arrive in the first half of […]
APPLE HAS REVOKED Google’s ability to distribute internal iOS applications, two days after it rescinded the same privileges from Facebook, according to a source within Google. Apple shut down access after TechCrunch revealed that the two companies sidestepped its strict App Store rules by taking advantage of a program meant for internal company apps. Instead […]
