Month: April 2023
US government orders its workers to update their iPhones immediately
US government workers owning Apple devices have until May 1 to apply the latest patch and protect their endpoints from potential compromise. BleepingComputer recently reported the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) ordering federal agencies to apply a patch fixing CVE-2023-28206 and CVE-2023-28205 for iPhones, Mac computers, and iPad devices. Allegedly,…
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Microsoft Teams now has Snapchat’s Lenses for video calls
Microsoft has teamed up with Snap to add Snapchat Lenses to Microsoft Teams. More than 20 Snapchat Lenses are now part of the Microsoft Teams app, including ones that will place a cat on your head, a sloth on your shoulder, or virtual sunglasses on your face during video calls.…
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Microsoft finally gets around to fixing half-decade-old Firefox CPU bug
Better late than never, I guess, but Microsoft finally got around to fixing a five-year-old high-CPU usage bug in Mozilla Firefox. The bug, which is tied to Windows Defender’s Antimalware Service Executable process, has been known to produce high-CPU usage when running Firefox compared to Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.…
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Beau Is Afraid is an exercise in laughing to keep from screaming
Beau Is Afraid, A24’s newest film from director Ari Aster, is both a dark comedy and a surreal, oedipal drama that feels like it might not exist were it not for how common it’s become for TV shows and films to tell stories about people living with the kind of anxiety…
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Elon Musk tweets, then deletes DMs from Matt Taibbi over his Substack snit
Elon Musk and one of his “Twitter Files” writers, Matt Taibbi, don’t seem to be on great terms right now, and that situation probably isn’t getting any better after Musk posted then deleted a DM conversation between the two of them. Let me try to recap how we got to…
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Twitter Circles Is Broken, Revealing Nudes Not Meant For The General Public
Riesman didn’t panic — but she didn’t want to impose her “spicy” pics on people. “It was, ‘Oh god, am I shoving my naked body in front of a load of people?’” she said. “I’ve curated my Circles to people I thought wouldn’t mind, but the general public does not…
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