Month: December 2022
A Dyslexic Contractor Can Now Send Formal Emails To Clients Thanks To The AI App His Friend Designed
Danny Richman, a 60-year-old search engine optimization consultant, first met contractor Ben Whittle, 31, in December 2021. Whittle had come to fix a bathroom leak that was dripping into the living room of his house, on the outskirts of London. The pair then struck up a friendship, and Richman started…
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This dangerous botnet might have been taken down by a simple typo
Audio player loading… A threat actor irretrievably destroyed its own botnet with nothing more than a typo. Cybersecurity firm Akamai spotted the blunder in KmsdBot, a cryptomining botnet that also had distributed denial of service (DDoS (opens in new tab)) capabilities, before recently crashing and reporting an “index out of…
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Another top password manager is doing away with passwords
Audio player loading… Open source password manager Bitwarden has announced that it’s going passwordless in a move that it hopes will make it easier and faster for users to access their Bitwarden vaults. In a press release, Bitwarden explained that its new mechanism, “uses a public and private key exchange…
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Apple’s new App Store policies add more price points, going all the way up to $10,000
Under the updated App Store pricing system, all developers will have the ability to select from 900 price points, which is nearly 10 times the number of price points previously available for most apps. This includes 600 new price points to choose from, with an additional 100 higher price points…
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Ford is demanding its dealers get serious about EVs — two-thirds say they’re in
Many barriers are holding up the automotive industry’s wide-scale transition to electric vehicles. Getting battery costs down, getting range up, and convincing car buyers to break up with gasoline for good are just some of the more commonly known ones. But there’s also one very powerful group that hasn’t been…
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Apple Music Sing Adds ‘Karaoke Mode’ to Streaming Songs
America’s most popular music streaming service is adding the ability to turn down the vocals and sing along. Source
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