Month: August 2020
Fossil’s Gen 5 Wear OS smartwatches are about to get a major update
The Wear OS-powered Gen 5 touchscreen smartwatches Fossil rolled out last year are about to get some upgrades. Their phone apps include avatars for contacts and quick access to key tools, as well as new battery modes that include custom profiles for… Source
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SpaceX, ULA are the big winners for US national security launches
The US Department of Defense has selected its two primary rocket companies for getting satellites into orbit in the years ahead: long-time military launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) and SpaceX. ULA will receive 60 percent of the department’s satellite launch contracts, while SpaceX will receive 40 percent. The two…
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Google and Amazon are now the most imitated brands for phishing null
Earlier this year, Check Point revealed that Apple was the most imitated brand for phishing in Q1 but over the course of the last few months, it has fallen to seventh place with Google and Amazon now taking the top spots. Phishing is estimated to be the starting point of…
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Facebook repeatedly overruled fact checkers in favor of conservatives
Facebook has repeatedly overruled its own fact checkers in order to help conservative pages avoid punishment for spreading misinformation. That’s according to leaked documents reported by NBC News, which found evidence that employees regularly interv… Source
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WarnerMedia undergoes major reorganization as HBO Max gets higher priority
Two of WarnerMedia’s top executives, Bob Greenblatt and Kevin Reilly, are leaving the company as CEO Jason Kilar begins to plan the company’s future with a tighter focus on HBO Max. Greenblatt oversaw all of the company’s direct-to-consumer lines and oversaw WarnerMedia as a whole; Kevin Reilly was WarnerMedia’s content…
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Have I Been Pwned — which tells you if passwords were breached — is going open source
These days, we almost take it as a given that piss-poor security will inevitably expose some of your usernames and passwords to the world — that’s why 2FA is so important, and why you might want a password checkup tool like the ones now built into every modern browser (well,…
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