Month: December 2022

Oppo announced three new products at its annual technology event Oppo Inno Day 2022 held on Wednesday. The offerings include a pair of assisted reality (aR) glasses dubbed the Oppo Air Glass 2, the OHealth H1 family health monitor, and the MariSilicon Y SoC. The Chinese manufacturer, however, has not announced an official release date
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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on Wednesday said that the situation has “stabilized” at his cryptocurrency exchange, in a bid to assuage investors’ fears after the company was forced to halt withdrawals of a stablecoin. Zhao said that around $1.14 billion of net withdrawals took place on Tuesday, but tweeted that this was “not the highest
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What you’re seeing in your feed on Twitter is changing. But how? The social media platform’s new owner, Elon Musk, has been trying to prove through giving selected journalists access to some of the company’s internal communications dubbed “The Twitter Files” that officials from the previous leadership team allegedly suppressed right-wing voices. This week, Musk
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PlayStation 2022 Wrap-Up is here. As another year winds down, apps like Spotify, Reddit, and YouTube have been offering users a recap of 2022. The year-in-review that matters to gamers is also here, as Sony released its 2022 Wrap-Up for PlayStation on Tuesday, highlighting users’ playing statistics, standout achievements, and favourite games on the platform
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Dec 14, 2022Ravie LakshmananApplication Security / Zero-Day The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) on Tuesday said a threat actor tracked as APT5 has been actively exploiting a zero-day flaw in Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway to take over affected systems. The critical remote code execution vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-27518, could allow an unauthenticated
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Social media platform Twitter will see an exodus of users due to changes being made by new owner and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and flat revenue growth for the next two years, according to a report by Insider Intelligence on Tuesday. Experts and users have had concerns about Twitter’s ability to fight misinformation after
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Dec 13, 2022Ravie LakshmananOpen Source / Vulnerability Database Google on Tuesday announced the open source availability of OSV-Scanner, a scanner that aims to offer easy access to vulnerability information about various projects. The Go-based tool, powered by the Open Source Vulnerabilities (OSV) database, is designed to connect “a project’s list of dependencies with the vulnerabilities
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Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted on Monday that Twitter’s basic blue tick will have half the number of advertisements and the social media platform will offer a higher tier with no advertisements by next year. Musk also confirmed in a response to a Twitter user that the microblogging platform would eventually remove blue check marks
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Dec 13, 2022Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Cloud Security A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Public Gallery that could have been potentially exploited to stage a multitude of attacks, according to cloud security firm Lightspin. “By exploiting this vulnerability, a malicious actor could delete all images in the Amazon
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iPad (2022) was launched in October with a redesigned chassis and Apple’s A14 Bionic SoC. The new tablet is the first entry-level iPad model to feature a USB Type-C port. The iPad (2022) has now gone through JerryRigEverything’s durability test and it appears to have survived most of it — except the bend test. The display of the tablet
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest in the Bahamas on Monday marks the beginning of a new chapter in the FTX saga, one that will pit the former cryptocurrency billionaire against the Southern District of New York. CNBC has confirmed that the charges against Bankman-Fried include wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy and money
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