Month: March 2022
The 5G iPhone SE will be for carriers, not customers
Apple is widely expected to release a new iPhone SE model this week, the company’s third — and its quickest update yet for its cheapest line of smartphones. Apple’s release cycle for the SE line is accelerating: the original iPhone SE was released in 2016 as an entry-level option for…
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Brave is now trying to dethrone Microsoft Teams and Google Meet
Audio player loading… Brave Software is rolling out a series of upgrades for its privacy-focused video conferencing service, Brave Talk. As explained in a new blog post, the headline addition is a new browser extension that allows users to attach Brave Talk links to Google Calendar invitations, in the same…
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That Android antivirus could actually be malware
Audio player loading… A banking Trojan capable of stealing login credentials, transferring money from a compromised account, intercepting SMS messages, hiding notifications, and a bunch of other nasties has been found hiding in the Google Play Store. Researchers from two cybersecurity firms, first Cleafy, and later NCC Group, spotted the…
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Kia’s 2022 Sorento plug-in is no Telluride, but it’s still a posh SUV
If you're looking for a capable mid-size SUV with a bit of plug-in hybrid pep, three rows of seats and don't mind a slightly ho-hum aesthetic, Kia's 2022 Sorento plug-in hybrid (PHEV) is made for you. It's not nearly as flashy as Toyota's RAV4 Prime, a car widely considered to…
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Nvidia hackers hit Samsung and leak huge data dump
Audio player loading… The increasingly-notorious cybercrime group Lapsus$ has published a huge database, allegedly containing sensitive information from Samsung. The leak, containing 190GB of data broken into three separate databases, was released via torrent. Lapsus$ says the databases contain the source code for every Trusted Applet (TA) installed in Samsung’s…
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Pixar’s Turning Red captures the wonder and horror of being a teen in 2002
Pixar’s Turning Red, from director Domee Shi, may be Disney’s latest animated feature aimed at kids. But any adult over the age of 30 or so needs to understand that the movie is also a kind of one-way time machine back to the halcyon days of 2002 when burning CDs…
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