This is the BrightDrop EV410, a new electric delivery commercial vehicle from General Motors. [credit: BrightDrop ] In January, General Motors created a new electric vehicle brand. It’s called BrightDrop, and like GM’s legacy brands that are electrifying, it, too, will use the company’s forthcoming Ultium batteries and Ultium Drive electric motors. Unlike the rest...
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New Azure Active Directory password brute-forcing flaw has no fix
Enlarge (credit: Michael Dziedzic) Imagine having unlimited attempts to guess someone’s username and password without getting caught. That would make an ideal scenario for a stealthy threat actor—leaving server admins with little to no visibility into the attacker’s actions, let alone the possibility of blocking them. A newly discovered bug in Microsoft Azure’s Active Directory...
Facebook Is Delaying ‘Instagram Kids’ Amid Criticism
The social media giant said it still wanted to build a child-focused Instagram product but would postpone the plans in the face of criticism.
Activision to pay $18 million settlement over workplace misconduct.
The complaint by a federal agency followed several other legal actions taken against the game maker, which has been accused of sexual harassment and discrimination.
New Limits Give Chinese E-Gamers Whiplash
China has a complex relationship with video games. New government rules for minors have made it even more so.
Ford picks Kentucky and Tennessee for $11.4 billion EV investment
Enlarge / A rendering of the BlueOvalSK campus in Glendale, Kentucky. (credit: Ford) On Monday, the Ford Motor Company announced a massive investment to build electric vehicles in Kentucky and Tennessee. Together with partner SK Innovation, it will invest $11.4 billion and create around 11,000 new jobs in the region building electric F-series pickup trucks...
Researchers use Starlink satellites to pinpoint location, similar to GPS
Enlarge / SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites launches from the Kennedy Space Center on October 6, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) Signals from SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites can be used to pinpoint locations on Earth to within eight meters of accuracy, engineering researchers reported in a new...
Film studios sue “no logs” VPN provider for $10 million
Enlarge / Your at-home entertainment studio. (credit: Ella Don) Dozens of movie production companies sued LiquidVPN this year over the VPN provider’s marketing efforts that could be perceived as promoting piracy. These companies, which are now seeking $10 million in damages, claim that the “no log” policy of LiquidVPN is not a valid excuse, as the...
(BPRW) BLACK-OWNED START-UP ZISCUIT JOINS TECHSTARS TO PUT MORE FOOD ON YOUR FAMILY’S TABLE
(Black PR Wire) ATLANTA, GEORGIA – Ziscuit, the world’s first grocery search engine, today announced it will launch its revolutionary platform at the 2021 Techstars Farm To Fork Accelerator Demo Day on October 14, 2021. The all-new grocery sear
He escaped the Dark Web’s biggest bust. Now he’s back
Enlarge / DeSnake is back, with big promises about keeping AlphaBay up and running this time. (credit: Illustration: Elena Lacey | Getty Images) Just over four years ago, the US Department of Justice announced the takedown of AlphaBay, the biggest dark web market bust in history. Thai police arrested the site’s 26-year-old administrator, Alexandre Cazes,...








