Month: June 2021
Facebook’s standalone newsletter platform ‘Bulletin’ launches today
Facebook has revealed its long-rumored standalone newsletter platform: Bulletin. Mark Zuckerberg announced the new project during a live audio room, saying that the project was a “response to what’s happening in the media ecosystem.” Bulletin will host a mix of free and paid content. Some articles will be freely available,…
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Echo Show 8 and Show 5 review: Not much has changed, and that’s okay
I’ll admit, I wasn’t impressed when Amazon added a rotating base to the new Echo Show 10. Sure, the swiveling screen is useful for following you around the room during video calls, but it also felt gimmicky and unnecessary. Plus, it needs a lot of room to move around so…
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Exposure notification apps could be more effective if they’re better at assessing risk
Joanna Masel is quick to recognize that the contact tracing apps built to track cases of COVID-19 aren’t as good as they could be. The apps, built on a framework offered by Apple and Google, aren’t used by many people in the United States and didn’t seem to make a…
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Lenovo Legion 5 Pro review: You can’t argue with cheap
There’s something a little counter-revolutionary about high-end gaming machines made by suit-and-tie PC businesses. The idea of Lenovo, makers of the ThinkPad, building a gaming machine worthy of comment feels a little weird, and yet the Legion 5 Pro is just that. The Walmart-exclusive model that I’m testing costs $1,530,…
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Nasty WordPress plugin bugs could allow attackers to register as site admins Unbreakable Lock
Security researchers have discovered critical yet easily exploitable vulnerabilities in a popular WordPress plugin that can be abused to upload arbitrary files to affected websites. In their breakdown of the vulnerability, researchers from Wordfence, which develops security solutions to protect WordPress installations, note that the affected plugin is installed on…
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700m LinkedIn records up for sale on underground hacking forum Data leak
The records of 700m LinkedIn users are being sold online on a popular hacking forum just two months after the data of 500m users of the business-focused social network was sold off in a similar way. According to a new report from the VPN review site PrivacySharks, a cybercriminal going…
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