Author: Randall

Investigators say Saudi Arabia accessed Jeff Bezos’ phone

[ad_1] The Saudi government reportedly relied extensively on covert phone surveillance as part of the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to the New York Times and de Becker’s expert consultants. And when the Post (owned by Bezos) started covering Khasoggi’s murder in earnest starting October 2018, the Saudis started attacking Bezos and […]

What we played in March

[ad_1] Most importantly, though, the feeling of actually controlling Spider-Man is fantastic. Fighting bad guys and swinging through NYC is both easy to learn and hard to master, but the rewards for doing so are vast. After a few hours, I felt like I had complete control over Spidey, swinging between skyscrapers with equal parts […]

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg proposes four ways to regulate the internet

[ad_1] Zuckerberg also pushed for regulations that set “common standards” for verifying people behind political ads. He hoped for a “globally harmonized framework” for data privacy akin to the European Union’s GDPR to improve overall data protection without leading to a “fractured” internet. To top things off, the exec hoped for a guarantee of data […]

‘Driveclub’ online features shut down March 31st, 2020

[ad_1] The server shutdown will prevent people from competing in multiplayer races, including events and tours. You also won’t get to compete against others on the leader boards or share your progress. Your season pass won’t work online, either. The game that’s left will be a shell of its former self. It’s not completely surprising […]

Apple Music code hints at Chromecast support

[ad_1] Whether or not Apple Music is coming to Google Home, there are signs you might get to use it with some Google-powered devices. The 9to5Google team has found multiple lines of code in Apple Music’s Android app that reference Chromecast support, including some added through recent updates. While there’s no guarantee this would be […]

Facebook axed its bird-size internet drones before they even flew

[ad_1] It’s not entirely clear how pigeonet would’ve worked, but the report says the drones were designed to carry small solid-state drives filled with media. That suggests that they were meant to relay information between traditional mobile infrastructure from afar and people’s phones. What’s crystal is that Facebook didn’t conceptualize the technology as a complete […]

Google users can sign into Firefox and Edge with a security key

[ad_1] There’s just one gotcha: as the key registration process still relies on the older Universal Second Factor standard, you’ll have to use Chrome to add a key to your account. It’ll “take some time” before you can rely solely on a third-party browser, Google’s Christiaan Brand said. Still, that support is at least on […]

Junked Teslas still held unencrypted video recordings

[ad_1] One of the researchers who uses the pseudonym GreenTheOnly told CNBC that he managed to extract all sorts of data from salvaged Model X, Model S and Model 3 cars in the past. To take a closer look at what Tesla computers can reveal, he teamed up with another white hat hacker named Theo […]

Facebook says it accidentally deleted some of Mark Zuckerberg’s posts

[ad_1] It’s not clear exactly what posts vanished beyond the 2007-2008 time frame, but they include a post about the acquisition of Instagram in 2012 as well as news of company chef Josef Desimone’s death in 2013. The company stressed that it believed people should have access to previous company news through its blog and […]