Month: September 2024
Qualcomm wants to buy Intel
On Friday afternoon, The Wall Street Journal reported Intel had been approached by fellow chip giant Qualcomm about a possible takeover. While any deal is described as “far from certain,” according to the paper’s unnamed sources, it would represent a tremendous fall for a company that had been the most…
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Tired of EV charging hassle? This start-up wants to solve it with its ‘Face ID for vehicles’
A new start-up called Juice has announced a partnership with New York ride share and fast-charging operator Revel that could help take the pain out of using a public EV charging network thanks to smart cameras and machine learning. Although vastly improved over recent years, topping up EV batteries via…
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Microsoft warns US healthcare of threat actor using new ransomware
Vanilla Tempest, a ransomware group also known as Vice Society, has been seen deploying the INC ransomware strain for the first time to target the American healthcare sector. This is according to cybersecurity researchers from Microsoft, who recently detailed their newest findings in an X thread. In the thread, the…
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The best deals you can get ahead of Amazon’s October Prime Day sale
In case you missed the news, Amazon recently announced a second Prime Day event for the fall. The two-day deal blitz, dubbed Prime Big Deal Days once again, will run from October 8th through the 9th, offering Prime subscribers a chance to save on all sorts of tech ahead of…
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Twitch introduces new depreciating strike program
Twitch is changing the way it enforces its community guidelines. In an announcement posted on its website, Twitch said that it will introduce a new enforcement strategy in which strikes for certain offenses will depreciate over time, users will receive more information regarding their strikes, and users will be able…
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Apache HugeGraph-Server flaw actively exploited, CISA warns
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added an Apache HugeGraph-Server vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, signaling that the bug is actively being exploited in the wild. The addition also forces federal agencies to apply a patch before the October 9 deadline, or stop using…
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