Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Security researchers said they uncovered a vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to commandeer millions of Android devices equipped with mobile chipsets made by Qualcomm and MediaTek. The vulnerability resided in ALAC—short for Apple Lossless Audio Codec and also known as Apple Lossless—which is an audio format introduced by Apple in...
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Barack Obama’s New Role: Fighting Disinformation
The former president has embarked on a campaign to warn that the scourge of online falsehoods has eroded the foundations of democracy.
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Three Ways to Cut Your Tech Spending, as Prices Rise Everywhere
Here’s how to be mindful about the tech subscriptions, phone bills and upgrades that drain our budgets.
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Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Organizations using newer versions of Oracle’s Java framework woke up on Wednesday to a disquieting advisory: A critical vulnerability can make it easy for adversaries to forge TLS certificates and signatures, two-factor authentication messages, and authorization credentials generated by a range of widely used open standards. The vulnerability, which Oracle patched...
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Netflix stock plummets 37% as CEO says company plans ad-supported tier
Enlarge / Netflix CEO Reed Hastings at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on October 18, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Netflix plans to launch a lower-priced subscription tier with ads, CEO Reed Hastings said Tuesday in an interview to discuss first-quarter earnings. Netflix revenue growth is slowing amid a loss...
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Elon Musk Races to Secure Financing for Twitter Bid
The world’s richest man is trying to shore up debt financing, including potentially taking out a loan against his shares of Tesla, so he can buy Twitter for $43 billion.
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Hackers can infect >100 Lenovo models with unremovable malware. Are you patched?
Enlarge / This is the 14-inch variant of the Yoga Slim 9i, with leather finish. (credit: Lenovo) Lenovo has released security updates for more than 100 laptop models to fix critical vulnerabilities that make it possible for advanced hackers to surreptitiously install malicious firmware that can be next to impossible to remove or, in some...
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(BPRW) WeSolar, Inc. Announces $25 Million Community Solar Partnership Deal with University of Maryland Medical System
(Black PR Wire) BALTIMORE – In celebration of Earth Day, WeSolar and the University of Maryland Medical System announces their collaboration to develop several solar farms across Baltimore City to serve as a power source for UMMS properties an
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How a Dollar General Employee Went Viral on TikTok
Mary Gundel loved managing a store in Tampa, Fla. But when she detailed its challenges on social media, the company — and fellow employees — took notice.
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A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?
OpenAI’s GPT-3 and other neural nets can now write original prose with mind-boggling fluency — a development that could have profound implications for the future.