Month: May 2024

May 15, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Anonymity A Dutch court on Tuesday sentenced one of the co-founders of the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer service to 5 years and 4 months in prison. While the name of the defendant was redacted in the verdict, it’s known that Alexey Pertsev, a 31-year-old Russian national, has been awaiting trial
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May 14, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Zero Day Google on Monday shipped emergency fixes to address a new zero-day flaw in the Chrome web browser that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4761, is an out-of-bounds write bug impacting the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. It was reported anonymously on
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Google I/O kicked off on Tuesday, the first day of the company’s annual developer conference. During the keynote event, the company’s executives also took the wraps off noteworthy new features coming to Android smartphones over the coming months — strangle enough, the company didn’t unveil Android 15 features during the keynote event. These announcements have
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May 14, 2024NewsroomBluetooth / Vulnerability Multiple security flaws have been disclosed in VMware Workstation and Fusion products that could be exploited by threat actors to access sensitive information, trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, and execute code under certain circumstances. The four vulnerabilities impact Workstation versions 17.x and Fusion versions 13.x, with fixes available in version
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OnePlus Watch 2 was initially unveiled at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 in February this year and later launched in select global markets, including India. The smartwatch was first introduced in Black Steel and Radiant Steel shades and later launched in a third Europe-exclusive Nordic Blue colour option in April. The watch comes with a dual-engine architecture which allows
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May 14, 2024NewsroomLocation Tracking / Privacy Apple and Google on Monday officially announced the rollout of a new feature that notifies users across both iOS and Android if a Bluetooth tracking device is being used to stealthily keep tabs on them without their knowledge or consent. “This will help mitigate the misuse of devices designed
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Apple is gearing up to sell its Vision Pro mixed-reality headset outside the United States, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, in a bid to invigorate demand for its most expensive bet in years. The iPhone-maker has flown hundreds of employees from its international stores to Cupertino, California and started training them on how to demonstrate
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OpenAI held its much-anticipated Spring Update event on Monday where it announced a new desktop app for ChatGPT, minor user interface changes to ChatGPT’s web client, and a new flagship-level artificial intelligence (AI) model dubbed GPT-4o. The event was streamed online on YouTube and was held in front of a small live audience. During the
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