Month: November 2022
Wi-Fi security flaws could let drones, attackers target you through walls
Audio player loading… A drone that leverages a widespread security flaw to detect Wi-Fi networks from inside buildings has been developed by the University of Waterloo (UOW) in Canada, raising fears about similar devices being used to conduct criminal activity. In a press release, the university reported (opens in new…
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Fanfiction was the guilty pleasure that helped me unlock the internet
My affair with fanfiction started off as an English assignment. At the tender age of 12, my tiger parents forced me to spend every free moment at a local cram school. It was about 6PM on a Friday night in July. None of us had eaten dinner, and our English…
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iPhone users will soon be able to pay with a single tap using PayPal and Venmo
Audio player loading… Your iPhone could be a step closer to replacing your wallet after Apple revealed its Tap to Pay contactless mobile payment technology is partnering with some of the biggest payments firms around. The service will soon be offered as an option on the iOS apps for PayPal…
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Mass Layoffs Are Underway At Twitter
These aren’t the first cuts Musk has made to the social media platform’s workforce: Upon taking over Twitter on Oct. 27, Musk immediately fired some of the company’s top executives, including its CEO, Parag Agrawal, and chief counsel Vijaya Gadde, who was in charge of online safety. A lawsuit has…
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Matter is already revolutionizing your smart home – here’s everything you need to know
On October 4, 2022, the first version of Matter, a smart home standard, was made available to users and companies worldwide, and two years later, it’s everywhere. Thanks to the Connectivity Standards Alliance, which is a consortium of over 500 companies, Matter is a way of having all your smart…
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TikTok is back after a brief outage
For a little while this afternoon, many people get a message that there’s “no internet connection” while trying to browse their For You page inside the TikTok app. After an outage that lasted from 1:25PM ET until around 1:45PM ET, everything appears to be functional again. We haven’t seen an…
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