Month: August 2023
Microsoft warns sporting events could be targets for major cyberattacks
Microsoft has offered up some salient advice on how organizations, particularly those involved with large sporting events, should protect themselves and attendees. In the fifth installment of its Cyber Signals report, the tech giant offers insight into how threat actors manage to breach venues, teams and infrastructure of popular sporting…
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The latest iPhone 16 Pro rumor points to a camera sensor upgrade next year
All the signs are that the iPhone 15 is going to be launched next month, but rumors are already starting to appear about what we can expect from the iPhone 16 – including quite a substantial camera upgrade for the Pro models. Seasoned Apple industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that…
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Elon Musk’s X can’t send Blue subscribers their ad revenue-sharing payouts on time
In news that isn’t very surprising given the recent history of Twitter, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X, the company won’t be able to make some promised payments on time. The X Support account says that because its “Ads Revenue Sharing” program is so popular, “We need a…
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Zuck says Threads will add search and web ‘in the next few weeks’
“Search and web coming in the next few weeks,” he tweets, saying he’s “excited about the team’s pace of shipping.” Meta took a gamble on launching a barebones Twitter alternative at breakneck speed while Twitter continued to crumble, and it may have paid off — my colleague Alex Heath recently…
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Could this 31TB SSD sell for less than $1000 in 2024? Solidigm’s new ruler drive may well be the one
Forget consumer SSD, all the action (and excitement) seems to take place these days in the enterprise market. Solidigm’s D5-P5336 range, launched last week, not only brings a new 61.44TB version to the market (the biggest SSD available) but is also doing its best to drive down prices to record…
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Your Android phone may soon read QR codes from across the room
You might soon not have as much trouble reading far away QR codes on your Android phone. Google is working on a new code scanner that automatically detects a QR code in the camera frame, zooms in, and reads it. The feature isn’t quite making its way to devices just…
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