Month: September 2024
Sony’s best headphones and earbuds now come in a very fetching pink
As much as we love the Sony WF-1000XM5 earbuds and Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones they’re not much fun in the color department: earbuds like Google‘s Pixel Buds Pro 2 are much more visually entertaining, and while this month’s AirPods Max update was a little disappointing there’s no denying that Apple’s colors…
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Audio and video calls on Discords are now end-to-end encrypted
Popular messaging and VoIP platform Discord rolled out end-to-end encryption protection for both audio and video calls. The so-called DAVE protocol protects all your calls across private channels, small group chats, server-based voice channels during conversations in larger groups, and real-time streaming. Messages, however, remain non-encrypted. The move is set…
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Researcher reveals ‘catastrophic’ security flaw in the Arc browser
Arc has a feature called Boosts that allows you to customize any website with custom CSS and Javascript. Since running arbitrary Javascript on websites has potential security concerns, we opted not to make Boosts with custom Javascript shareable across members, but we still synced them to our server so that…
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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is a swashbuckling side story starring fan favorite Goro Majima
Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have just announced Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii at Tokyo Game Show 2024’s RGG Summit presentation. Firmly filing under the category of ‘game ideas so good I can’t believe they haven’t happened already’, this smaller-scale adventure stars iconic series madman Goro Majima…
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US announces $3 billion in funding for new battery projects
The US Department of Energy announced today plans to dole out more than $3 billion to over two dozen battery projects across 14 states. The money will go toward processing critical minerals, building batteries and their components, and recycling batteries. It’s part of the Biden administration’s push for more domestic…
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FTC says social media apps are surveilling kids and teens
Social media apps are surveilling children and teenagers, and using the data gathered to earn billions of dollars every year. At the same time, they’re doing close to nothing to protect their young users from harmful content. This is one of the conclusions published in a new staff report from…
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