Month: October 2024
Spotify now automatically creates an offline playlist when you lose internet
Spotify has introduced a new feature that will keep your music playing even when your device unexpectedly goes offline. The app will automatically generate an Offline Backup playlist filled with recently streamed and queued songs that have already been downloaded and cached, and it will “evolve” over time and customize…
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Thousands of Zimbra servers attacked following email account compromise
A critical vulnerability has been found in open source collaboration suite Zimbra which allows crooks to run remote code execution on vulnerable servers and deploy malware. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-45519, and is only exploitable when default settings are changed, and the postjournal service is enabled. That, luckily, reduces…
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The toxic transformation of Warcraft maker Blizzard
On this week’s episode of Decoder, I’m talking to Jason Schreier, a Bloomberg journalist and author of the new book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment. If you don’t know Blizzard, you know its games — the studio behind Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch is more than…
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MyRow took my Concept2 rower and made it smart
I’ve been wishing for a product like MyRow to come onto the market for as long as I can remember. I love rowing, and own a Concept2 Model D, which is one of the world’s most popular rowing machines. Concept2’s ergometers — which is the fancy word for “rowing machine”…
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‘I’m still pretty shocked’: The Rings of Power’s Daniel Weyman hasn’t come to terms with who he’s really playing after The Stranger’s ‘exciting’ name reveal
Major spoilers follow for The Rings of Power season 2 episode 8. The Rings of Power actor Daniel Weyman has explained when he found out his character’s (The Stranger) real name – and no, he hasn’t known since the hit Amazon series began. Ahead of the season 2 finale, titled…
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Uber partners with ex-Yandex self-driving group for robotaxis and robot delivery
Uber expanded its cohort of autonomous vehicle partners today with the addition of Avride, formerly known as Yandex Self-Driving Group. The companies signed a “multiyear” agreement in which Uber customers can take rides and accept takeout deliveries from Avride’s autonomous vehicles. Starting this week, Uber customers in Austin will see…
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