Enlarge Zyxel Hackers are attempting to exploit a recently discovered backdoor built into multiple Zyxel device models that hundreds of thousands of individuals and businesses use as VPNs, firewalls, and wireless access points. The backdoor comes in the form of an undocumented user account with full administrative rights that’s hardcoded into the device firmware, a […]
Jack Ma and other entrepreneurs prospered under Beijing’s laissez-faire attitude toward the business side of the internet. The dynamic is shifting as the companies have grown in power. China’s internet giants came to dominate segments of the world’s No. 2 economy because Beijing’s authoritarian government largely looked the other way while they grew and grew. […]
Enlarge / Why play new games on these expensive consoles when you can emulate old ones? Sam Machkovech After a new console is released, it usually takes hackers months or years to find a hole in the console’s security that lets them install homebrew software like emulators. So it may come as a surprise that […]
Genevieve Poblano/ Digital Trends For the past five years or so, SpaceX has been chipping away at a mind-bogglingly massive project: The Starlink satellite constellation. The grand plan is to ferry over 12,000 satellites (or more) into low-Earth orbit and place them in an undulating, lattice-like array that allows SpaceX to deliver high-speed broadband internet […]
Enlarge / A big blue Big Blue chart showing how this is going to work. IBM IBM announced this morning that the company would be spinning off some of its lower-margin lines of business into a new company and focusing on higher-margin cloud services. During an investor call, CEO Arvind Krishna acknowledged that the move […]
SAN FRANCISCO — When Microsoft began talking this summer with the popular video app TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, no one had any intentions of pursuing a blockbuster deal. With tensions swirling between the United States and China, along with the complexities of running a social media company, any large acquisition appeared too […]
Geert Vanden Wijngaert AP In this Oct. 5, 2015 photo, a woman walks by the entrance to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. BRUSSELS — The European Union’s top court on Thursday threw a large portion of transatlantic digital commerce into disarray, ruling that data of E.U. citizens is not sufficiently protected from government […]
Scientists have now attached GoPros to a number of different animals for the sake of research — but what about the smallest members of the animal kingdom? Inspired by the biology of a bug’s eye, researchers from the University of Washington created a camera that’s small enough for some bugs to wear, weighing just 250 […]
Gmail with tons of extra controls. There are now sections for “Mail,” “Chat,” “Rooms,” and “Meet.” Tahin Rahman The new mobile app, complete with all those new tabs. Tahin Rahman Gmail will point out messages you’re ignoring. Tahin Rahman The “Chat” tab uses the dual-pane layout. Tahin Rahman Video chat gets a picture-in-picture view. Tahin […]
Nothing beats GoPro when it comes to action cameras. The company’s latest offering, the GoPro Hero8 Black, easily topped our list of the best action cameras of 2020 thanks to its unparalleled photographic prowess even in the most extreme conditions. Unfortunately, it’s usually a wee bit expensive. Not anymore. Right now, it’s on sale at […]
The Google Pixel 3a is no more. Google has confirmed the phone has been discontinued from its range. It unavailable through the Google Store, and once the remaining devices out in the world have been purchased, that’s it. This is just the way of the world. The Pixel 3a is more than a year old, […]
Enlarge / 08 January 2019, Hessen, Rüsselsheim: ILLUSTRATION – The App Store (M) logo can be seen on the screen of an iPhone. Photo: Silas Stein/dpa (Photo by Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images) The European Commission has opened two formal antitrust investigations into Apple’s App Store and its Apple Pay payment system. The investigation […]
Enlarge / Hattis Law isn’t pulling any punches in the allegations made in its class-action lawsuit, specifically calling WD out not only for using SMR technology in less-than-ideal devices, but flatly accusing them of outright deception in the process. Hattis Law All three of the surviving conventional hard drive vendors—Toshiba, Western Digital, and Seagate—have gotten […]
Black Block‘s Retroit street-driving game is like playing the car-driving part of Grand Theft Auto from an overhead view, with one big twist. Spectators of the mobile game can drop obstacles or prizes in your path. In the age of livestreaming, game developers are trying to figure out how to get spectators to interact with […]