Month: September 2021
Niantic admits it needs to communicate better with Pokémon Go players
Last month Niantic sparked a backlash in the Pokémon Go community when it announced plans to reverse some of the changes it made last year to make the game more playable while staying at home. The company said it would set up a “task force” to figure out the best…
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Looks like Google wants its own Apple M1 success story Google Pixelbook Go
Ever since Apple made its own fancy custom CPU with its M1 chip, we’ve been starting to see rumors about other tech giants making their own silicon. First it was Microsoft, and now we hear that Google is looking to make its own processors for Chromebooks and tablets running Chrome…
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Fake alert emails raise Coinbase hacking fears Crypto exchange Coinbase is preparing to go public
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has rushed to reassure users after emails were sent out claiming customer security settings had been changed. The company emailed about 125,000 customers on Friday informing them that their 2-step verification settings had been changed. Unsurprisingly, the email led many users to believe that their account had…
Read MoreHints about the arthouse horror game created by a NIN guitarist and AAA veteran
There are secrets buried in the first video from Eyes Out. It’s just two minutes long and filled with overlapping shots of drums, mics, guitars and snakelike cables packed into a lonely desert hideaway, all while an unsettling, ambient score gathers layers of sound. Over time, the scenes are flooded…
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New Orleans needs a better backup plan for blackouts
Hurricane Ida thoroughly wrecked New Orleans’ power supply, preying on vulnerabilities that are only likely to get worse in the future as storms like Ida become more fierce. The storm knocked out all eight transmission lines that bring power into New Orleans, plunging the city into darkness. The damage was…
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SEC fines brokerage firms over email hacks that exposed client data
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has fined several brokerage firms a total of $750,000 for exposing the sensitive personally identifiable information of thousands of customers and clients after hackers took over employee email accounts. A total of eight entities belonging to three companies have been sanctioned by the SEC,…
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