Day: January 19, 2023

To celebrate February's Black History Month, Apple is rolling out this year’s Black Unity Collection featuring a special edition Sport Loop for select Apple Watch models plus new curated collections and content for multiple iOS platforms. 2023’s Black Unity Sport Loop is made from intricately woven yarn spelling out the word “Unity” using the same […]

Cybersecurity researchers from X41 and GitLab has discovered three high-severity vulnerabilities in the Git distributed version control system. The flaws could have allowed threat actors to run arbitrary code on target endpoints by exploiting heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities, the researchers said. Of the three flaws, two already have patches lined up, while a workaround is […]

Your humble Wi-Fi router signal could be used to track your movements around a  room, bat style, a new report has claimed. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University recently published a report in which they detailed an experiment using ordinary off-the-shelf Wi-Fi routers to detect people’s locations, as well as their poses, in a room.  The […]

Norwegian shipping classification society DNV has been hit by a ransomware attack which forced the company to shut down some of its servers. The attack affected roughly 1,000 ships using DNV's ShipManager software – a tool that its customers use to monitor different features of their shipping fleets.  DNV says some 300 companies use the […]

Nvidia announced this week that the latest version of its subscription service, GeForce Now Ultimate, has officially gone live for several cities in the US, rolling out to San Jose, Los Angeles, and Dallas, as well as Frankfurt, Germany. Areas surrounding these cities will also be able to connect to the new Ultimate tier servers. […]

Having only just released a new version of its Apple TV streaming box late last year, it looks like Apple is already laying out plans for a quick-fire successor to the best streaming device around. According to a report from serial Apple leaker Mark Gurman for Bloomberg, the company is readying an upgraded Apple TV box […]

Listen, I would go to more concerts if it wasn’t for the expense, crowds, and rigamarole involved with getting to the venue. Now, though, after an all-too-brief listening session with the new Apple HomePod 2, maybe I don’t need to go anywhere. The music experience is that good. For as much as Apple’s brand new […]

The US State Department has sent shockwaves throughout its workforce after ditching Times New Roman as the font of choice in official communications.  The evergreen staple has been used by the government body since 2004, but a leaked cable has revealed that this is about to change.  As reported in The Washington Post, the iconic […]

Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet-owned Google are the top corporate investors of wind and solar power in the US, new figures have claimed. A report from the American Clean Power Association (ACPA), a pressure group, which also revealed that, while the technology industry is (perhaps understandably) setting an example for others in buying 48% of all […]

The Linux Foundation has announced plans to build an open-source metaverse which it says could be “as impactful as the World Wide Web”, so long as companies, developers, and founders come together to meet shared goals. The aptly named Open Metaverse Foundation (OMF) has been divided into a series of groups, that it calls Foundational […]