Month: June 2022
The Morning After: Snapchat+ is a $4 monthly subscription service for its most devoted users
Snap’s optional subscription service is here, offering “exclusive, experimental and pre-release features” for $4 a month. It’s apparently for “passionate” Snapchat users and launches this week in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The exclusive features are modest to…
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CISA sounds the alarm over high-severity bug in all major Linux distros
Audio player loading… A high-severity Linux vulnerability capable of granting abusers root access to target endpoints is being exploited in the wild, researchers have warned. The flaw is found in Polkit’s pcexec component, which can be found in pretty much all major Linux distributions. Tracked as CVE-2021-4034, the flaw is…
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Amazon restricts LGBTQ searches and products in the United Arab Emirates
Amazon has restricted search results and inventory related to LGBTQ topics in the United Arab Emirates after being pressured to do so by the government, reports The New York Times. Same-sex relationships and sex acts are illegal in the UAE, and are punishable by fines and imprisonment. A number of…
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MacBook Air (M2, 2022) could be up for pre-order in a week – but how long will stock last?
Audio player loading… Apple’s redesigned MacBook Air with the M2 chip, which was recently revealed at WWDC 2022 and has been keenly awaited since, will supposedly go on sale come July 15. That’s the word from MacRumors (opens in new tab), which cited a retail source for this fresh info…
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Apple lets apps in South Korea use third-party payment systems
Developers of apps released in Apple’s South Korean App Store no longer have to use the company’s own in-app payment system, the iPhone maker has announced in a developer update. Instead, developers will be able to take payments using the third-party service providers pre-approved by Apple. The change comes in…
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Biden administration launches $1 billion effort to correct racist highway designs of the past
The Biden administration announced a $1 billion effort to rectify racist infrastructure decisions of the past, such as highways that were built by bulldozing Black communities. The program, which the Department of Transportation is calling “Reconnecting Communities,” will in some cases tear down highways that were built with the expressed…
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