Month: August 2024

X (formerly Twitter) may introduce its in-house payments service soon, according to claims by an independent app researcher on social media. Since Elon Musk’s takeover, the microblogging platform has undergone a myriad of changes – from its logo, name and domain change to the removal of traditional verification methods and the introduction of an artificial
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Amazon announced the launch of its upgraded artificial intelligence (AI) model, Titan Image Generator v2 on Tuesday. Following the release of Image Generator v1 last year, the new image generation model features improved capabilities and functionalities. Aimed at the tech giant’s enterprise customers, the AI model can generate images using reference images, edit images, remove
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Aug 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananLinux / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel Linux kernel exploitation technique dubbed SLUBStick that could be exploited to elevate a limited heap vulnerability to an arbitrary memory read-and-write primitive. “Initially, it exploits a timing side-channel of the allocator to perform a cross-cache attack reliably,” a group of academics
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Titan is a household name in India for its traditional watches. However, the company has been actively launching smartwatches in the country for Gen Z. The latest from the brand’s portfolio is Titan Celestor. The latest smartwatch from the house of Titan brings a sleek design, a big display, interesting features, and more. The smartwatch
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Google TV Streamer (4K) was launched on Tuesday. The device replaces 2020’s Chromecast with Google TV (4K) as the company’s latest smart home entertainment solution. It comes loaded with features such as support for media streaming in 4K resolution, 32GB of onboard storage, and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. It also features a major redesign, with
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Reddit will begin testing summaries generated using artificial intelligence (AI) for content, the company announced during its earnings call with investors on Tuesday. The AI-powered summaries will appear at the top of the search result pages. Courtesy of this feature, Reddit aims to help users “dive deeper” into the platform’s content, including games, communities and
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Aug 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Cyber Espionage An unnamed media organization in South Asia was targeted in November 20233 using a previously undocumented Go-based backdoor called GoGra. “GoGra is written in Go and uses the Microsoft Graph API to interact with a command-and-control (C&C) server hosted on Microsoft mail services,” Symantec, part of Broadcom,
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Huawei Watch Fit 2 was unveiled in select European markets in May 2022. The smartwatch is now available for purchase in India. It comes with a 1.74-inch AMOLED screen with Always-on-Display (AOD) support, interchangeable straps with a press-to-release ‘Link’ design, and is claimed to offer up to 10 days of battery life with typical usage. The
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Aug 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Windows Security The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Moonstone Sleet has continued to push malicious npm packages to the JavaScript package registry with the aim of infecting Windows systems, underscoring the persistent nature of their campaigns. The packages in question, harthat-api and harthat-hash, were published on July 7, 2024,
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