Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Honor has announced a new software update policy at MWC 2023. The new update policy delivers three major OS upgrades and five years of security patches. Honor’s policy only applies to the Magic 5 Pro and Magic Vs for now. System update policies are a growing battleground in the
Read MoreCredit: Redmi Redmi just achieved 300W fast wired charging on a phone. The company used a modified Redmi Note 12 series phone to demonstrate the tech. The phone’s 4,100mah battery gained a full charge under five minutes. The fast charging race is going absolutely bonkers! After Realme broke records with its 240W fast charging solution
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A new Google phone has come up in the FCC database. It could be the Pixel 7a. The documents confirm its connectivity options. An unnamed Google phone has stopped by FCC, as spotted by Droid Life. The device in question comes bearing model number GHL1X. It seems to have
Read MoreSander Lutz / Decrypt: Yuga Labs announces its first Bitcoin NFT project TwelveFold, which contains 300 limited-edition generative art pieces inscribed to the Bitcoin blockchain — TwelveFold, a limited series of just 300 generative Ordinals NFT art pieces on Bitcoin, will be auctioned later this week.
Read MoreIf you were a kid anywhere in the last 30 years, it was nearly impossible to avoid at least some exposure to the Pokemon franchise. Whether that’s through games like Red and Blue to Scarlet and Violet, the brief summer everyone played Pokemon Go, or to other media such as the trading card game or
Read MoreSander Lutz / Decrypt: Yuga Labs announces its first Bitcoin NFT project TwelveFold, which contains 300 limited-edition generative art pieces inscribed to the Bitcoin blockchain — TwelveFold, a limited series of just 300 generative Ordinals NFT art pieces on Bitcoin, will be auctioned later this week.
Read MoreIf you were a kid anywhere in the last 30 years, it was nearly impossible to avoid at least some exposure to the Pokemon franchise. Whether that’s through games like Red and Blue to Scarlet and Violet, the brief summer everyone played Pokemon Go, or to other media such as the trading card game or
Read MoreLawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: LastPass: hackers stole password vault data in 2022 by exploiting an RCE flaw in third-party software to install a keylogger on a DevOps engineer’s computer — LastPass revealed more information on a “coordinated second attack,” where a threat actor accessed and stole data from the Amazon AWS cloud storage servers for
Read MoreNew York Times: The Biden administration will require firms seeking CHIPS Act subsidies to limit stock buybacks and share a portion of unanticipated profits with the government — In return for vast subsidies, the Biden administration is asking the chip industry to make promises about its workers and finances.
Read MoreWhen it comes to modern operating systems for PowerPC-based systems like pre-Intel Macs, or other PowerPC-based systems like older or newer AmigaOS-compatible systems, there is an increasing lack of options. For 32-bit PPC, official Linux support has been dropped already, leaving only unofficial builds and of course AmigaOS as well as AmigaOS-like operating systems. So
Read MoreNBC News: The US Marshals Service suffered “a ransomware and data exfiltration event” on a standalone system; a source says the witness protection database was not hit — The U.S. Marshals Service suffered a security breach over a week ago that compromises sensitive information …
Read MoreThe actor and new parent talks about her TV network, giving Black creators opportunities, and a group text her sisters and friend didn’t add her to.
Read MorePlatformer: Sources: The Boring Company CEO Steve Davis has been in charge of Twitter’s cost-cutting, including recent layoffs, amid talk that he will be Twitter’s next CEO — Is the job Steve Davis’ to lose? PLUS: A smart new tool to fight child exploitation online
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Carl Pei has posted an image of a Nothing Phone 1 clone being displayed at MWC 2023. The Unihertz Luna features a Glyph-like interface at the back and a see-through design like the Phone 1. It’s set to launch sometime in March. They say imitation is the best form
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The OnePlus Nord 3 could feature a larger 6.72-inch AMOLED display with full HD+ resolution. The phone could launch in July. Update: February 27, 2023 (9:51 PM ET): We’ve got more details about the OnePlus Nord 3 thanks to reliable leaker Max Jambor who reports that the phone
Read MoreApple TV Plus has released the official trailer for season three of Ted Lasso.
Read MoreImage: The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has announced a new platform designed to help remove sexually explicit images of minors from the internet. Meta revealed in a blog post that it had provided initial funding to create the NCMEC’s free-to-use “Take It Down”
Read MoreDavid Shepardson / Reuters: White House gives federal agencies 30 days to ensure they do not have TikTok installed on government devices and adjust IT contracts with vendors accordingly — The White House on Monday gave government agencies 30 days to ensure they do not have Chinese-owned app TikTok on federal devices and systems.
Read MoreFor all their supposed benefits, homeowner’s associations (HOAs) have a reputation of quickly turning otherwise quaint neighborhoods into a sort of Stanford prison experiment, as those who get even the slightest amount of power often abuse it. Arbitrary rules and enforcement abound about house color, landscaping, parking, and if you’ve ever operated a radio, antennas.
Read MoreIan Allison / CoinDesk: DCG reports 2022 revenue of $719M and a loss of $1.1B as the firm struggled with plunging crypto prices and the restructuring of its lending platform, Genesis — DCG held cash and cash equivalents of just $262 million at the end of 2022, while investment assets amounted to $670 million.
Read MoreJon Victor / The Information: Sources: Elon Musk has approached AI researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT — Elon Musk has approached artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT …
Read MoreDavid Shepardson / Reuters: White House gives federal agencies 30 days to ensure they do not have TikTok installed on government devices and adjust IT contracts with vendors accordingly — The White House on Monday gave government agencies 30 days to ensure they do not have Chinese-owned app TikTok on federal devices and systems.
Read MoreDavid Shepardson / Reuters: White House gives federal agencies 30 days to ensure they do not have TikTok installed on government devices and adjust IT contracts with vendors accordingly — The White House on Monday gave government agencies 30 days to ensure they do not have Chinese-owned app TikTok on federal devices and systems.
Read MoreBrody Ford / Bloomberg: Zoom reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $1.12B, vs. $1.1B est., Enterprise revenue up 18% YoY to $636.1M, Enterprise customers up 12% YoY to ~213K; ZM jumps 6%+ — Zoom Video Communications Inc. gained in late trading after giving an upbeat profit forecast for the current period …
Read MoreImage: Laura Normand / The Verge Meta now has a team dedicated to building tools powered by artificial intelligence, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a post on Monday. This could eventually include “AI personas” designed to help people in “various ways” in addition to new AI tools across its apps and services. More specifically, Zuckerberg
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