Month: February 2021
Aussie Broadband’s NBN 1000 plan gets massive price cut, now just AU$119 Paul Walker and Vin Diesel standing on a car in the Fast and Furious
Home-grown ISP Aussie Broadband is cutting the cost of its fastest NBN plans, meaning it now has the cheapest plans available in the top two speed tiers. Aussie Broadband is currently offering its lightning-quick NBN 1000 plan for just AU$119 a month, making it the lowest price you’ll pay for…
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Plex media streaming service has some major security flaws Plex
DDoS-for hire services are leveraging security flaws in Plex Media Server systems as a UDP reflection/amplication vector in DDoS attacks according to new research from Netscout. For those unfamiliar, Plex Media Server is a personal media library and streaming system that runs on a variety of operating systems including Windows,…
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Peloton will pump $100M into delivery logistics to ease supply concerns
This probably falls under “good problems,” in the grand scheme of things. After another record quarter, Peloton has announced that it will invest more than $100 million in air and ocean freight deliveries due to “longer-than-acceptable wait times for the delivery of our products.” The fitness company is among those…
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Apple’s new betas let you try its Watch-based solution for masked iPhone unlocks
With the upcoming release of iOS 14.5 and watchOS 7.4, Apple will let you use your Apple Watch to authenticate and unlock your iPhone while you’re wearing a mask. But if you want to try the feature now, you can, as Apple has released public betas for both iOS 14.5…
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Firefly will light up the moon with $93M lunar lander contract from NASA
NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $93.3 million contract to take a lunar lander module loaded with experiments to the surface of the moon. While the company will not be performing the launch itself, it will be providing the spacecraft and “Blue Ghost” lander for the 2023 mission. The space…
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Don’t expect ‘Overwatch 2’ or ‘Diablo 4’ this year
First, the bad news: Neither Overwatch 2 nor Diablo 4 will not come out in 2021, according to publisher Activision Blizzard.Executives shared the information during the company’s Q4 2020 earnings call, and they didn’t provide a release window for eit… Source
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