Enlarge / A critical vulnerability in Zoom for MacOS, patched once last weekend, could still be bypassed as of Wednesday. Users should update again. (credit: Getty Images) It’s time for Zoom users on Mac to update—again. After Zoom patched a vulnerability in its Mac auto-update utility that could give malicious actors root access earlier this week,...
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Netflix’s ad-supported plan likely to have another drawback: No video downloads
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) The presence of advertisements apparently won’t be the only major difference between Netflix’s ad-supported and ad-free plans. Text reportedly found in the code of Netflix’s iPhone app suggests the ad-supported plan won’t let users download movies and shows for offline viewing. The text says, “Downloads available on all plans...
Ring patched an Android bug that could have exposed video footage
Enlarge / Ring camera images give you a view of what’s happening and, in one security firm’s experiments, a good base for machine learning surveillance. (credit: Ring) Amazon quietly but quickly patched a vulnerability in its Ring app that could have exposed users’ camera recordings and other data, according to security firm Checkmarx. Checkmarx researchers...
Tech Hacks to Make Traveling Right Now Less of a Headache
The travel industry is recovering from the pandemic, but messily. These apps and tips can help us navigate the chaos and maximize our comfort.
How Online Travel Planning Is Getting Easier
Airbnb, Google Travel and a few other platforms have tweaked their search engines, and that means less slogging through pages and pages of results on everything from home rental options to flight routes.
Update Chrome now to patch actively exploited zero-day
Enlarge / It’s a good time to restart or update Chrome—if your tabs love you, they’ll come back. (credit: Getty Images) Google announced an update on Wednesday to the Stable channel of its Chrome browser that includes a fix for an exploit that exists in the wild. CVE-2022-2856 is a fix for “insufficient validation of...
iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for more than 2 years, researcher claims
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A security researcher says that Apple’s iOS devices don’t fully route all network traffic through VPNs as a user might expect, a potential security issue the device maker has known about for years. Michael Horowitz, a longtime computer security blogger and researcher, puts it plainly—if contentiously—in a continually updated blog post....
Lyft Unveils Self-Driving Car Service in Las Vegas (With Caveats)
The company joins several others that are introducing self-driving services — but the cars often have drivers or are otherwise limited in their autonomy.
A Frustrating Hassle Holding Electric Cars Back: Broken Chargers
Owners of battery-powered cars sometimes struggle to refuel on longer trips because public chargers don’t work or malfunction while cars are plugged in.
Chrome “Feed” is tantalizing, but it’s not the return of Google Reader
Enlarge / Digging into bleeding-edge Chrome code has made some bloggers hopeful, but Google has been focused on its own feeds for a while now. (credit: Getty Images) Does Google enjoy teasing and sometimes outright torturing some of its products’ most devoted fans? It can seem that way. Tucked away inside a recent bleeding-edge Chrome...





