Month: August 2022
Plex confirms data hack, user details and passwords stolen
Audio player loading… Media streaming platform Plex has been hacked with user passwords and personal data stolen (opens in new tab), the company has confirmed. Plex sent out an email notification to its users explaining the situation, and asking them to change passwords as soon as possible. The email noted…
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Peloton CEO thinks losing $1.2 billion is a sign of ‘substantial progress’
Peloton’s numbers don’t look great. In its Q4 2022 earnings release this morning, the company reported a $1.2 billion operating loss, a 28 percent revenue drop, a membership decline, and a monthly subscriber churn exceeding 1 percent for the first time in a long while. (Perhaps ever?) And that’s just…
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Galaxy Watch 5 and Watch 5 Pro review: The best Android watch gets a modest update
The best non-Apple smartwatch has long been Samsung’s Galaxy Watch series, thanks to its comprehensive health and fitness tracking, intuitive interface and comfortable, pleasant design. For a product that’s so mature, it’s hard to imagine what else Samsung can improve upon, which might explain why the Galaxy Watch 5 is…
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After 25 years, we still don’t see bicycle kicks at the RoboCup
This year’s RoboCup symposium held in Bangkok, Thailand marks the 25th anniversary of the event, an international competition dedicated to the advancement of robotic and artificial intelligence technologies. The original goal of the event was to get the state of robotics in robust enough shape that one might field a…
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DNS is now more important than ever for internet traffic
Audio player loading… In 1992, librarian Jean Armour Polly coined the phrase “surfing the Internet” and for anyone that has since ridden its waves of data and information, chances are you have come across the term DNS. Today, the domain name system (DNS) is one of the foundations of the…
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Praise the sun! Dark Souls 3’s PC servers are back up
According to tweets from FromSoftware Player Support and the official Dark Souls Twitter account, the PC servers for Dark Souls 3 have been restored after being taken offline since early January. The servers were initially disabled by FromSoftware to prevent a malicious remote code execution (RCE) exploit that allowed hackers…
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