Month: April 2020
Peloton launches an Android TV app
With gyms across the country closed for business, at-home exercise companies like Peloton have found an unexpected opportunity. As the connected fitness company looks to onboard new customers, they’re also expanding platform support, announcing today that they would be bringing their app to Android TV, the OS used by millions…
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Disney Plus says its aspect-ratio fix for The Simpsons is coming soon
Following the launch of Disney Plus late last year, many fans of the classic animated sitcom The Simpsons voiced their displeasure upon discovering that the show’s first 19 and a half seasons had been cropped or stretched to fit into the 16:9 format, effectively ruining a number of quality visual…
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CDC is expected to tell Americans to wear cloth masks, save medical masks for health workers
On Thursday, the White House said that it will likely soon adjust previous guidelines that discouraged non-health workers from wearing face masks. The change would be issued as “guidance” from the CDC, but according to the president—who continues to hesitate at exerting federal power during the COVID-19 crisis—it will not…
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Amazon Detective makes it easier to spot cloud security issues
AWS has announced that its new security service Amazon Detective is now available at no additional cost to customers. Amazon Detective makes it much easier for customers to conduct faster and more efficient investigations into security issues across their AWS workloads. The service automatically collects log data from a customer’s…
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Epic Games reveals new mobile game Spyjinx in collaboration with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Games
Fortnite creator Epic has revealed a new mobile game developed in collaboration with J.J. Abrams’ game development company Bad Robot Games, a spinoff of his production studio Bad Robot that was formed back in 2018 with funding from Epic investor Tencent. Abrams previously collaborated with Epic to debut a trailer…
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Automated tool can find 100 Zoom meeting IDs per hour
An automated tool developed by security researchers is able to find around 100 Zoom meeting IDs in an hour and information for nearly 2,400 Zoom meetings in a single day of scans, according to a new report from security expert Brian Krebs. Security professional Trent Lo and members of SecKC,…
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