Enlarge / Perhaps this textbook is from the Ma Bell era? #ThanksStockGettyImages designer491/Getty Images Josh Hawley had some questions about how Apple got the money to buy back $58 billion worth of stock last year. “I want to focus on one major source of that revenue,” the Republican senator told Apple’s attorney. “It’s not innovation, … Read more
Getty Images At least five U.S. federal agencies may have suffered cyberattacks targeting recently discovered security flaws that gave hackers free reign over vulnerable networks, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Friday. The vulnerabilities in Pulse Connect Secure, a VPN employees use to remotely connect to large networks, include one that hackers were … Read more
The Huawei iPad Pro. The P50 isn’t launching today because of… all that’s going on. Huawei The Huawei Watch 3. Huawei This morning, Huawei officially gave the go-ahead for the launch of Harmony OS, its own operating system and (among other things) the replacement for Android, in a live stream. The company announced a new … Read more
Getty Images The cyberattack that shut down some operations at the world’s largest meat processor this week was the work of REvil, a ransomware franchise known for its ever-escalating array of killer tactics designed to extort the highest price. The FBI made the attribution on Wednesday, a day after it became known that Brazil-based JBS … Read more
Enlarge / If you’ve ever searched for answers to software development questions, this screenshot probably looks familiar. Jim Salter Legendary programming Q&A site Stack Overflow is acquired by Prosus NV, Europe’s largest technology investment company. According to a press release on the Prosus website, the two companies signed a definitive acquisition agreement yesterday. According to … Read more
Enlarge / The v1 SmartThings Hub from 2013. It dies at the end of the month. Samsung has turned its SmartThings ecosystem upside down in the past year. SmartThings was born as an independent company in 2012 when it launched one of the largest Kickstarter campaigns ever: a $1.2 million funding program for the company’s … Read more
Behold, the Steve Jobs Auditorium on Apple’s campus in 2017. This is where Apple often hosts its events. Samuel Axon Inside the Steve Jobs Theater building at Apple headquarters. Samuel Axon Through the window you can see the now famous starship campus. Samuel Axon The elevator from the ground floor waiting area to the basement … Read more
The Justice Department has created a task force to centrally monitor and coordinate all federal cases related to ransomware or related forms of cybercrime, such as botnets, money laundering, and bulletproof hosting. “To ensure we can make the necessary connections between national and global cases and investigations… we need to improve our internal tracking of … Read more
After Apple shook up the ad industry by requiring users to opt-in to ad tracking in iOS 14.5, Google – the world’s largest advertising company – is announcing a small concession on ads on Android. Beginning in late 2021, Google will begin rolling out a feature that makes Android’s years-long ad opt-out checkbox less likely … Read more
A VMware vulnerability is actively exploited with a severity score of 9.8 out of 10. At least one trusted exploit has been made public and there have been successful attempts in the wild to compromise servers running the vulnerable software. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21985, resides in the vCenter Server, a tool for managing virtualization … Read more