Android 14 To Bring Direct Satellite Connectivity To Smartphones
Google said that the upcoming Android 14 will “support our partners in enabling all of this” after SpaceX and T-Mobile unveiled plans to deliver direct satellite connectivity to smartphones. On Twitter, Hiroshi Lockheimer, Senior Vice President of Platforms and Ecosystems at Google, described how it...
LG Unveils World’s First Bendable 42-Inch OLED TV
LG Electronics on Wednesday introduced the world’s first TV with a bendable 42-inch OLED screen and the display can go from completely flat to spectacularly curved, letting users choose from 20 levels of curvature for more immersive gaming experiences. Additionally, the screen of LG OLED...
Data Of 800 Million Chinese People Exposed Online
China is facing another massive data leak of its citizens as a huge database of at least 800 million records containing faces and vehicle license plates has been exposed online. The exposed data now disappeared from the internet, and belongs to a tech company called...
Crypto.com Accidentally Refunds Over $7 Million To Customer
Due to an unfortunate typo, cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com mistakenly issued a customer A$10.5 million ($7.2 million) rather than the expected A$100 ($68), media reports say. Seven months later, when the exchange finally discovered the error, but till then some of the money had already gone,...
Microsoft Spots TikTok Bug That Could Expose Private Videos Of Millions
Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has discovered a vulnerability in the TikTok app for Android that can let hackers take over private, short-form videos of millions of users once they clicked on a malicious link. Microsoft discovered a high-severity vulnerability in the TikTok Android application,...
Russian Streaming Platform Confirms Data Breach Affecting 7.5 Million Users
Russian media streaming platform ‘START’ (start.ru) has confirmed a data breach that exposed 7.5 million users’ info. Start is a subscription-based international streaming service available worldwide with Russian-based production. The service is a part of START digital media holding that also includes production company Start,...
Facebook To Shut Down Standalone Gaming App In Oct
Meta is winding up its standalone Facebook Gaming app on both Android and iOS from October 28. The app will also be not available on Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Meta did not elaborate on why it is shuttering the standalone gaming app....
Elon Musk Seeks To Delay Twitter Trial Citing Whistleblower’s Testimony
Elon Musk is trying to buy more time from the court to kick off the Twitter trial, set for October 17, citing the upcoming testimony by whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko. Musk’s legal team has proposed a new timeline that would push the week-long trial to...
NASA Aims Sep 3 As Next Artemis Moon Mission Launch Attempt
The US space agency will now target September 3 as the new launch date for the Artemis I Moon mission that was scrubbed last Monday owing to a technical glitch with one of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s engines. NASA Mission managers met to...
Tesla Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Over ‘Phantom Braking’ Issue
Tesla has been hit by a class-action lawsuit in the US over a phantom braking problem that the lawsuit alleged turned “a safety feature into a frightening and dangerous nightmare”. The lawsuit, filed by Tesla owner Jose Alvarez Toledo in federal court in the Northern...
Twitter Planned To Make Money Via Monetising Porn On Its Platform
Twitter reportedly planned to monetize adult content on its platform this year, by allowing adult creators to sell subscriptions on the micro-blogging platform, and become profitable in a jiffy. According to The Verge, Twitter was set to become a competitor to adult creator website OnlyFans...
Hackers Hides Malware In James Webb Telescope Images
Researchers at Securonix have spotted a new malware campaign dubbed ‘GO#WEBBFUSCATOR’ that relies on phishing emails, malicious documents, and space images from the James Webb telescope to spread malware. The malware is written in Golang, a programming language that is gaining popularity among cybercriminals because it is...
Chinese Hackers Target Energy Firms In South China Sea, Asia-Pacific
Cyber-security researchers on Tuesday said they discovered a recent cyber espionage campaign targeting energy and manufacturing firms globally, including in the South China Sea, that was perpetrated by Chinese hackers. The targets of this cyber attack spanned Australia, Malaysia, and Europe, as well as entities...
Google Launches Open-Source Software Bug Bounty Program
Tech giant Google will now pay security researchers to find and report bugs in the latest versions of Google-released open-source software (Google OSS). The company’s newly announced Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP) focuses on Google software and repository settings (like GitHub actions, application configurations, and access...
Microsoft Makes Arm-Based Azure Virtual Machines Available For Customers
Microsoft has announced the general availability of the latest Azure Virtual Machines featuring the Ampere Altra Arm-based processor. The new virtual machines will be generally available on September 1, and customers can launch them in 10 Azure regions and multiple availability zones around the world,...
Truecaller Revamps Its iOS App For Better Protection Against Spam & Scam
Truecaller on Tuesday announced that it has revamped its app for iOS users to offer better protection against spam and scam. The company said that the iOS app has been completely rewritten from the ground up to be lighter, more efficient, and offers 10 times...
TSMC To Soon Start 3-nm Chip Production Amid Delivery Delays
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) on Tuesday said that it will soon produce an ultra-advanced 3-nanometer (nm) chip, as the leading contract chipmaker struggles with supply-chain woes and other constraints. According to South China Morning Post, TSMC CEO C.C. Wei acknowledged the company is dealing...
Google Android 14 Beta Likely To Roll Out In April 2023
Tech giant Google is likely to start rolling out Android 14 Beta for its Pixel devices in April 2023, as the quarterly platform release (QPR1) beta for Android 13 starts next month. Google originally stated the Android 13 QPR betas would run until June 2023...
Apple iPhone 14 May Support Satellite Communication
Apple’s next-generation iPhone 14 may come with its long-rumored satellite communication feature that is likely to be used in emergency situations for texting or voice services. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, satellite communication is one of iPhone 14’s test items before mass production, and Apple...
NASA Engineers Assess Data After Artemis Moon Mission ScruB
NASA engineers were evaluating data gathered during the Artemis I launch attempt, which was scrubbed owing to a technical glitch in one of the rocket engines. The space agency said that a mission management team was set to convene on Tuesday to discuss the data...
