Month: August 2020
US Army and Navy unban Twitch commenter who criticized the military
The US Army and Navy have agreed to unban Jordan Uhl, the activist who linked to a Wikipedia page listing US military war crimes in their Twitch chats. After the incident, Uhl wrote an article criticizing the military for using Twitch to scout for po… Source
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36 hours with Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra: testing out the camera Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra
I’ve had the new Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra in hand for 36 hours as of Saturday, and even though it widens my normal smartphone grasp, that 6.9-inch display is worth the stretch – and so is using the camera, according to my latest snapshots. Not everyone gets it. In…
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Exclusive: Vast majority may ‘never go back’ to the office Remote working
Remote working has been touted for a number of years as an avenue to increasing employee engagement, improving work-life balance and attracting millennial talent, but not many could have predicted the extent to which people have embraced the home office in recent months. According to a survey of TechRadar Pro…
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All you need to hijack a Mac is an old Office document and a .zip file Mac
A sequence of interconnected bugs could allow hackers to hijack devices running on macOS using little more than an infected Office document and a .zip file, an expert has warned. The vulnerability was identified by ex-NSA researcher Patrick Wardle, now working for security firm Jamf, who found that even fully-patched…
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Snag ‘Quake’ for free this weekend in the Bethesda Launcher
Like so many events, QuakeCon 2020 is happening entirely online, but whether or not you’re participating, you can get a few treats this weekend. In the Bethesda Launcher you can get a free copy of the original Quake, while The Elder Scrolls Online is… Source
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One of the largest enterprise VPN providers has issued a stark warning about VPN usage null
As more organizations allow their employees to work from home indefinitely, demand for corporate VPN services from companies like Cogent Communications could fall as businesses will likely need less commercial office space. As reported by Fierce Telecom, the company’s CEO and Chairman David Schaeffer raised these concerns recently while announcing…
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