Month: December 2022
Elon Musk’s promised Twitter exposé on the Hunter Biden story is a flop that doxxed multiple people
Free-speech crusader Elon Musk isn’t happy with Twitter’s years-old decision to suppress a news story about Hunter Biden’s laptop just ahead of the 2020 presidential election. So in an effort “to restore public trust” in Twitter, Musk indicated last month that he would release internal communications showing how it all…
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The Amazon exec in charge of Prime Video, Twitch, and gaming is retiring again
Amazon’s Jeff Blackburn, who leads the company’s media and entertainment businesses, is retiring from Amazon for a second time, according to emails from Blackburn and CEO Andy Jassy on Friday. With Blackburn’s departure, there will be some shifts in Amazon’s org chart. Mike Hopkins, who heads up Prime Video, Amazon…
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You deserve more than $2 for running your phone’s data through Amazon
Amazon is offering some users a whole $2 a month for only one teeny, tiny thing in return: that they route their traffic through an Amazon server so the company can keep track of which Amazon ads they’ve seen. It’s apparently been doing this for months. I’m not sure who…
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Medibank hackers claim to have leaked the last set of stolen files
Audio player loading… The remainder of the customer data stolen in the Medibank ransomware attack appear to have been published online. REvil, the group behind the attack on the Australian health insurer, posted an update on its blog earlier this week, stating “Happy Cyber Security Day!!! Added folder full. Case…
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Android December update lets you share your digital car keys with iPhones
Audio player loading… Android devices will be getting new features as part of a December update courtesy of Google. On the surface, the changes seem totally random, but that’s because each one is aimed at a specific type of user. For example, Google is adding a new Reading Mode app…
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Google Messages starts testing end-to-end encryption for RCS group texts
Google is starting to test end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Messages for RCS group chats on Android. Some users who are enrolled in the Messages open beta program will gain access in the coming weeks ahead of a broader rollout. The company said during its I/O 2022 developer conference that an…
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