Day: April 16, 2020

Best noise-canceling headphones of 2020 – CNET

Looking for an active noise-canceling headphone? These are CNET’s current top picks. …read more Source:: CNet


Final Fantasy 7 Remake: 5 questions we have after beating the game – CNET

If you’ve finished the game, you probably have some questions too. Spoilers ahead. …read more Source:: CNet


Newest iPhone SE is Apple’s most affordable phone but doesn’t feel cheap – CNET

Commentary: Apple wisely designed the new SE to have the same appeal as the original from 2016. …read more Source:: CNet


Security Lapse Exposed Clearview AI Source Code

Zack Whittaker, reporting for TechCrunch: Since it exploded onto the scene in January after a newspaper expose, Clearview AI quickly became one of the most elusive, secretive, and reviled companies in the tech startup scene. The controversial facial recognition startup allows its law enforcement users to take a picture of a person, upload it, and…


Cisco IP Phone Harbors Critical RCE Flaw

Cisco stomped out a critical vulnerability in its IP Phone web server that could enable remote code execution by an unauthenticated attacker. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Pastebin Made It Harder To Scrape Its Site And Researchers Are Pissed Off

The most famous paste site, used by hackers of all stripes to host lists of stolen passwords, announcements of data breaches, and malware has made it harder for security researchers to scrape it looking for that kind of information. From a report: And security researchers are pissed off. Pastebin is one of the most famous…


Get a Peloton-like indoor studio bike free with your monthly iFit membership – CNET

It’s true: Pay $39 per month for three years and the ProForm Studio Pro is yours. Or get the same deal on an elliptical. …read more Source:: CNet


As A Matter of Fact, It’s All Dark

While the dark side of the moon wasn’t seen by humans until the middle of the 20th century, that side of the moon isn’t always dark, just hidden from view of Earth by a quirk of gravity. The more appropriate name for the other half of the moon is the “far side”, but while it…


AI Spots Critical Microsoft Security Bugs 97% of the Time

Microsoft claims to have developed a system that correctly distinguishes between security and non-security software bugs 99% of the time, and that accurately identifies the critical, high-priority security bugs on average 97% of the time. From a report: In the coming months, it plans to open-source the methodology on GitHub, along with example models and…


4 Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic

An epidemiologist-turned-CTO describes the parallels between the spread of a computer virus and the real-world coronavirus. …read more Source:: DarkReading