Posts

Showing posts from June, 2021

Not just OLED: LG is about to release its first Mini LED TVs

Dell’s $199 UltraSharp 4K webcam has AI on board—but no microphone

HP bets on AMD Ryzen 5000 in its new Pavilion Aero laptop lineup

Google commits to supporting Nest smart home devices for 5 years

Netflix once again introduces new features for Android, but not iOS (yet)

Microsoft digitally signs malicious rootkit driver

YouTube TV launches 4K support and offline playback for an extra $20

Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices

The Linux Foundation is working to improve voice recognition ethics

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 888 “Plus” SoC has a new name, not much else

Google launches a new medical app—outside the United States

SolarWinds hackers breach new victims, including a Microsoft support agent

Microsoft’s “Windows Subsystem for Android” sounds a lot like Chrome OS

Here’s what you’ll need to upgrade to Windows 11

Google to Android devs: Support more form factors, get a higher sales cut

“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

Hackers are using unknown user accounts to target Zyxel firewalls and VPNs

Google delays FLoC rollout until 2023

Windows 11 is much more than a new theme slapped onto Windows 10

A quick-start guide to OpenZFS native encryption

John McAfee found dead by apparent suicide in Spanish prison cell

Apple exec: “Sideloading in this case is actually eliminating choice”

The Nokia G20 comes to the US for $199, packs a “3-day” battery life

Ahoy, there’s malice in your repos—PyPI is the latest to be abused

Google Photos is so 2020—welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management

SiFive’s brand-new P550 is one of the world’s fastest RISC-V CPUs

A week after arrests, Cl0p ransomware group dumps new tranche of stolen data

The OnePlus 8 for $349 is the best Prime Day smartphone deal

Boston Dynamics is officially part of Hyundai Motor Group

Steven Spielberg’s production company signs multifilm deal with Netflix

Let’s Encrypt parent org sponsors Rust for Linux kernel development

Connecting to malicious Wi-Fi networks can mess with your iPhone

CentOS replacement distro Rocky Linux’s first general release is out

Even creepier COVID tracking: Google silently pushed app to users’ phones

A range of good Garmin smartwatches and Fitbits on sale for Prime Day

Sony’s excellent WH-1000XM4 headphones are down to a new low for Prime Day

Apple and Google’s AI wizardry promises privacy—at a cost

Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them

Amazon joins Apple, Google by reducing its app store cut

Microsoft’s Linux repositories were down for 18+ hours

Here’s what’s inside Google’s first-ever retail store

A new HTTP spec proposes elimination of obnoxious “cookie banners”

Apple‘s Tim Cook: Sideloading is “not in the best interests of the user”

Google enables end-to-end encryption for Android’s default SMS/RCS app

Make way for Windows 11? Windows 10 end-of-life is October 2025