Month: June 2023
Illinois now lets cops fly drones over events — but not with weapons or facial recognition
Cops can’t attach weapons to drones in Illinois, starting today — and they can’t use drones for facial recognition unless they’re attempting to counter a terrorist attack, preventing “imminent harm to life,” or making sure a suspect doesn’t get away. But they can do something they couldn’t before in Illinois:…
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Leaked Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 photos herald return of the bezel
Rotating bezels are back, baby. At least, that seems to be the case according to newly leaked photos of Samsung’s next-gen Galaxy Watches. The Galaxy Watch 6 and Watch 6 Classic photos come from German tech site WinFuture, which has a solid track record when it comes to this sort…
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Google Domains shuts down, assets sold to Squarespace
Google has announced the winding down of its domain registrar business, which launched almost a decade ago, as it looks to “sharpen [its] focus” in a time when all companies globally are being forced to reconsider their finances and operations. The announcement on June 15 discloses Squarespace as Google’s chosen…
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RIF developer counters Reddit CEO’s claims that he didn’t want to work with Reddit
On Thursday, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told me that the developer of rif is fun for Reddit (RIF), a popular third-party Reddit app for Android, did not want to work with Reddit on the company’s planned API pricing changes. However, the developer, Andrew Shu, tells me that’s not the case…
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Meta is lowering the minimum age for the Quest to 10 years old
Government scrutiny of how tech companies handle their underage users is continuing to heat up. A flood of bills in Congress on this topic seeks to strengthen the power of regulators and even ban kids under 13 from social media entirely. Enter Meta, which is lowering the minimum age for…
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Barracuda email cyberattack may have been used by hackers to spy on US government
Cybersecurity firm and Google Cloud subsidiary, Mandiant, has announced suspicions that Chinese-backed spies could have been behind the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in the Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG). Researchers have tracked attacks to a China-nexus actor who appears to have been conducting espionage “spanning a multitude of regions…
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