January 2023 – Page 55 – MSI Net, Inc. & mCloudServ

Researcher: firmware for 290+ MSI motherboards has a default UEFI Secure Boot setting that lets any OS run, even those lacking a signature (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researcher: firmware for 290+ MSI motherboards has a default UEFI Secure Boot setting that lets any OS run, even those lacking a signature — Over 290 MSI motherboards are reportedly affected by an insecure default UEFI Secure Boot setting settings that allows any operating system image …

The return of the HomePod could be just around the corner

The big HomePod has been discontinued for a little while, but rumour has it that it could be coming back.

New MacBook Pro models could launch today — but will they be worth the wait?

Today could be the day we finally get a look at the long-expected M2 MacBook Pro models.

Daily Authority: 👀 Google’s “Grogu” tracker

Good morning, and welcome to Tuesday’s Daily Authority! Yesterday was Blue Monday, officially the most depressing day of the year — and we had snow in Scotland which still hasn’t melted. Luckily today’s a bit cheerier as it’s Terrific Tuesday (ok, so that’s not official, but I’m going with it). Google’s “Grogu” AirTag competitor

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company plans to integrate OpenAI’s tools into all of its products and make them available for other businesses to build on (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company plans to integrate OpenAI’s tools into all of its products and make them available for other businesses to build on — Offering for businesses and end users to be transformed by incorporating tools like ChatGPT, CEO Satya Nadella says

The UK amends the Online Safety Bill to make senior managers at tech companies criminally liable for failures to protect minors, following demands by Tory MPs (Charles Hymas/Telegraph)

Charles Hymas / Telegraph: The UK amends the Online Safety Bill to make senior managers at tech companies criminally liable for failures to protect minors, following demands by Tory MPs — Social media bosses who fail to protect children from harmful content will face jail now the Government has conceded to rebel MPs

CryptoSlam and Forkast.News plan to merge and become Forkast Labs, offering news and data for crypto investors; both are portfolio companies of Animoca Brands (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: CryptoSlam and Forkast.News plan to merge and become Forkast Labs, offering news and data for crypto investors; both are portfolio companies of Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands Corp. founder Yat Siu helped engineer the merger of two startups his firm backed, aiming to create a data …

Apple just banned this viral app because it turned your iPhone into an iPod

Apple has removed the Retro Pod app from its App Store after it went viral as a way to emulate old iPods on your iPhone.

Apple investigating major iPhone 14 and Apple Watch flaw

Apple is investigating reports that its iPhone 14 and newest Apple Watch models may be triggering false 911 calls, particularly during activities like skiing.

How Apple built a supply chain in China over two decades, spending billions and embedding staff in factories, creating a dependence before US tensions escalated (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: How Apple built a supply chain in China over two decades, spending billions and embedding staff in factories, creating a dependence before US tensions escalated — The company spent two decades and billions of dollars building a supply chain of unprecedented sophistication. Now, a reckoning is coming

Sources: Foxconn appoints Michael Chiang as the head of its iPhone assembly business, replacing longtime leader Wang Charng-yang, after a tough year in China (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Sources: Foxconn appoints Michael Chiang as the head of its iPhone assembly business, replacing longtime leader Wang Charng-yang, after a tough year in China — Key Apple Inc. manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group has appointed a new boss for its iPhone assembly business …

A look at Elon Musk’s options to meet financial obligations from a $13B Twitter buyout debt; sources: the first interest installment could be due by January-end (Financial Times)

Financial Times: A look at Elon Musk’s options to meet financial obligations from a $13B Twitter buyout debt; sources: the first interest installment could be due by January-end — Billionaire faces tough choices to meet financial obligations of takeover financed by $13bn debt

We asked, you told us: Here’s how you keep your phone in your pocket

Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Modern smartphones are pretty big, which means there isn’t a lot of space in our pockets for these devices. Then again, women’s clothing tends to miss out on usable pockets in the first place. Nevertheless, we were curious to find out how you stored your phone in your pocket.

Stairway Drying Rack Rises Above the Rest

Finding space to dry clothes can be challenging in smaller spaces. [Tom Parker] solved this conundrum in his one bedroom apartment by putting a drying rack in his stairwell. By making the laundry rack fold up above the stairwell, [Parker] can dry his clothes without them taking up a lot of precious floor space. A

Pixel Fold dummy reveals ‘accurate’ dimensions, hinge-design, and more

We’ve already seen leaked renders of the so-called Google Pixel Fold. Now, YouTuber Dave2D has obtained what looks like a dummy model of the phone, supposedly made for case manufacturers. While there’s no hardware in the case model, the YouTuber’s been told it’s dimensional accurate. This means that the camera positioning, hinge design, bezels, etc,

Scammers are selling fake 16TB portable SSDs for ~$100 on Amazon by hijacking listings like pillow covers, keeping the reviews, and listing new products (Josh Hendrickson/Review Geek)

Josh Hendrickson / Review Geek: Scammers are selling fake 16TB portable SSDs for ~$100 on Amazon by hijacking listings like pillow covers, keeping the reviews, and listing new products — When it comes to portable hard drives, bigger is usually better. You want lots of space for photos, videos, or anything else.

Poll: Does your charger have a USB-C port?

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority We’ve seen a change taking place over the years in the charger space, as phone chargers switch from having full-sized USB-A ports to USB-C ports instead. This change isn’t happening at a rapid pace though, but it’s still notable nonetheless.

Here’s your first look at official Galaxy S23 cases

Credit: WinFuture Official pictures of the Galaxy S23 cases have leaked. Samsung is expected to offer the typical Smart-View, clear, and silicone cases. Additional stand cases and military-grade rugged cases are also coming. After outing the official press renders of the Galaxy S23 series, folks over at WinFuture have now leaked the official pictures for

Samsung announces the ISOCELL HP2, a 200-megapixel, 1/1.3-inch smartphone camera sensor with pixel binning, that could debut in the upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Samsung announces the ISOCELL HP2, a 200-megapixel, 1/1.3-inch smartphone camera sensor with pixel binning, that could debut in the upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra — Just a couple of weeks ahead of the full launch, Samsung just officially announced the 200MP camera that will make its debut in the Galaxy S23 Ultra.

It’s Not Easy Counting Transistors in the 8086 Processor

For any given processor it’s generally easy to find a statistic on the number of transistors used to construct it, with the famous Intel 8086 CPU generally said to contain 29,000 transistors. This is where [Ken Shirriff] ran into an issue when he sat down one day and started counting individual transistors in die shots

Wikimedia says the UK’s Online Safety Bill was designed for social media and a proposed change, expected Tuesday, would limit Wikipedia’s freedom of expression (Chris Vallance/BBC)

Chris Vallance / BBC: Wikimedia says the UK’s Online Safety Bill was designed for social media and a proposed change, expected Tuesday, would limit Wikipedia’s freedom of expression — Wikipedia should be treated differently to the big social media firms in the Online Safety Bill, a leading member of its foundation says.

Samsung debuts what could be the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s main camera sensor

Credit: Samsung Samsung has announced the new ISOCELL HP2 200MP camera sensor. The company says the sensor has entered mass production. It could be the widely expected 200MP shooter on the Galaxy S23 Ultra. Samsung has finally lifted the veil from its long-rumored 200MP ISOCELL HP2 camera sensor. The company said in a press release

Sources: activist investor Ryan Cohen has built a stake worth hundreds of millions of dollars in Alibaba and is pushing the company to accelerate stock buybacks (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Sources: activist investor Ryan Cohen has built a stake worth hundreds of millions of dollars in Alibaba and is pushing the company to accelerate stock buybacks — Cohen first contacted the Chinese e-commerce giant’s board in August to say he saw the company’s shares as undervalued

Microsoft makes Azure OpenAI Service, debuted in 2021, broadly available, giving customers access to the GPT-3.5 language model, DALL-E 2, and “soon” ChatGPT (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Microsoft makes Azure OpenAI Service, debuted in 2021, broadly available, giving customers access to the GPT-3.5 language model, DALL-E 2, and “soon” ChatGPT — Microsoft Corp. said it will add OpenAI’s viral artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT to its cloud-based Azure service …

Dave2D posts hands-on with

“I know it’s just a hunk of plastic, but there’s just so much you can tell from it.” | Dave2D YouTuber Dave2D posted a video with a plastic mockup of the rumored Pixel foldable. The details are consistent with earlier leaks. Good news for foldables nerds! Continue reading…

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