Month: December 2021
Western Digital plots to squeeze the tape market with massive archive HDDs
Audio player loading… Western Digital could be preparing to take on the tape archive market using HDD technology as the company looks to solve the archive problem. As reported by Block & Files which spoke with EVP and GM of the company’s HDD business Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, businesses in the storage…
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Apple’s concessions in China reportedly include a secret $275 billion deal and one odd change in Maps
Tim Cook has pushed Apple’s value within close range of $3 trillion, and a lot of that has to do with the former operations lead’s ability to manage a relationship with China, where many of its products are made and, increasingly, many of them are sold. A report this week…
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OnePlus pulls buggy OxygenOS 12 update
OnePlus released the Android 12-based OxygenOS 12 to the OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro this week, but the company has already pulled it following reports of bugs and issues from users. “We are aware of the issues caused by the OxygenOS 12 update and our software team is fixing them,”…
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Sony was bringing PlayStation Now to mobile phones, according to a confidential Apple presentation
In 2017 — long before Apple declared that cloud gaming could only exist on the iPhone if it jumped through gigantic hoops — Sony was preparing to launch its PlayStation Now cloud gaming service on mobile phones, a confidential document reveals. It could have been the single biggest expansion of…
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Serious security vulnerability affects Minecraft, iCloud, Steam and pretty much the whole of the internet
Audio player loading… A new zero-day vulnerability in the popular Java logging framework Log4j has been discovered which has the potential to affect Minecraft, iCloud, Steam and numerous other software products that use Java in their code. Tracked as CVE-2021-44228, this type of vulnerability is especially dangerous as it can…
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Go read this story explaining in detail the scary Teams bug that blocked a 911 call
Sometimes when technology bugs out, I like a good and heavy analysis on why something didn’t work as intended. Mishaal Rahman, former editor in chief at XDA Developers, wrote an excellent explainer on why a 911 call on a Google Pixel 3 with Microsoft Teams failed during a real emergency…
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