Month: February 2025
Screen reading malware found in iOS app stores for first time – and it might steal your cryptocurrency
Apps delivering malware to users to steal crypto found on iOS app store Some of these apps have thousands of installs across iOS and Android The ‘SparkCat’ campaign has been active since March 2024 Crypto-stealing malware dubbed ‘SparkCat’ has been discovered on iOS and Android app stores, and is embedded…
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AMC is upping the price for its A-List Stubs subscription
Following AMC’s recent changes to its Stubs program — a set of perks that actually seemed like a solid way to get people to sign up — the theater chain is now planning to raise the subscription service’s prices. Variety reports that, beginning May 7th, a membership to Stub’s A-List…
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Sonos explored creating a MagSafe speaker for iPhones
Not long before last year’s software quagmire thrust the company into controversy, Sonos tinkered with an idea that some employees believed might resonate with Gen Z customers. Engineers at Sonos prototyped a miniature speaker that could magnetically connect to the back of Apple’s recent iPhones. At least conceptually, the since-abandoned…
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Foh&Boh data leak leaves millions of CVs exposed – KFS, Taco Bell, Nordstrom applicants at risk
A hiring company has reportedly left millions of CVs in a publicly accessible AWS bucket Foh&Boh has partnerships with leading food and hospitality services The dataset is now closed, but users may still be at risk A dataset containing a staggering 5.4 million files has been discovered by researchers online,…
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Google’s Gemini Super Bowl ads push AI as a tool you can use every day
Google debuted a pair of new Super Bowl commercials that portray AI as a technology that’s as central to people’s lives as the phone or computer they access it on. But, like some of Google’s other Super Bowl ads, the company is once again attempting to make you pull out…
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Nvidia out? DeepSeek pairs with banned Chinese tech giant to deliver unbelievably low pricing on AI inference which could cause Nvidia’s house of cards to come crashing
DeepSeek’s V3 and R1 models are available through Huawei’s Ascend cloud service They are powered by the Ascend 910x accelerators banned in the US, EU and UK The pricing is much lower than offered by Azure and AWS who have started trialing DeepSeek DeepSeek recently massively unsettled global markets with…
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