Day: August 19, 2019

Apple bug mishap leads to iOS 12.4 jailbreak, report says – CNET

The iPhone maker reintroduced a vulnerability it had previously fixed, according to Motherboard. …read more Source:: CNet


Cyberpunk 2077 heading to Google Stadia in 2020 – CNET

And Johnny Silverhand is coming, too. …read more Source:: CNet


Motorola One Action is a phone with a GoPro-like camera – CNET

Calling all skaters, skydivers and backflippers. …read more Source:: CNet


Twitter is Blocked in China, But Chinese State News Agency is Buying Promoted Tweets To Portray Hong Kong Protestors as Violent

Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua is promoting tweets attacking the protestors and claiming they do not have wider support. From a report: Twitter is being criticized for running promoted tweets by China’s largest state news agency that paint pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong as violent, even though the rallies, including one that drew an estimated…


VxWorks TCP/IP Stack Vulnerability Poses Major Manufacturing Risk

A new analysis shows the scale of risk posed by networking vulnerabilities in a popular embedded real-time operating system. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Amazon back-to-school deals: Echo Show 5 for $65, Echo Dot for $30 and more – CNET

Save big on the Fire HD 10 and Fire TV Stick, too. Don’t worry, nonstudents are also eligible. …read more Source:: CNet


Stranger Things’ Demogorgon to torment horror game Dead by Daylight – CNET

You can also play as Steve or Nancy. …read more Source:: CNet


Google tightens grip on some Android data over privacy fears, report says – CNET

The search giant ends a program that provided network coverage data to wireless carriers. …read more Source:: CNet


Disney Plus: Release dates, prices, shows and movies to expect on the streaming service – CNET

Disney will stream movies and originals from its own studio, Pixar, Star Wars and Marvel across a ton of streaming platforms (but so far, not Amazon). …read more Source:: CNet


Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive: Study

U.S. wireless carriers have long said they may slow video traffic on their networks to avoid congestion and bottlenecks. But new research shows the throttling happens pretty much everywhere all the time. From a report: Researchers from Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts Amherst conducted more than 650,000 tests in the U.S. and found that…