Day: June 18, 2020

Comcast extends free Internet Essentials offer through 2020 – CNET

The broadband provider is extending the free offer until the end of the year as Americans continue to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. …read more Source:: CNet


Justice League’s Snyder cut clip teases Darkseid’s debut – CNET

Director Zack Snyder just shared the first sneak peek of his re-shot version of DC’s superhero showdown, including a look at the villainous Darkseid. …read more Source:: CNet


Apple MacBook deals for 2020: Get a 256GB MacBook Air (2019) for $949 – CNET

Plus: Deeper discounts on the big, 16-inch MacBook Pro. …read more Source:: CNet


Used Cisco Webex recently? Memory vuln could have let remote attackers snoop on your meetings and files

Only if they’d already pwned your box, mind. Still: get patching! Cisco Webex suffered from a vuln that could have allowed an attacker to access any account by simply copy-pasting a unique session token into a browser string.… …read more Source:: Register


Stockwell, the AI-Vending Machine Startup Formerly Known as Bodega, is Shutting Down July 1

Stockwell AI, which raised at least $45 million, entered the world with a bang but it is leaving with a whimper. From a report: Founded in 2017 by ex-Googlers, the AI vending machine startup formerly known as Bodega first raised blood pressures — people hated how it was referenced and poorly “disrupted” mom-and-pop shops in…


Why can’t HBO Max support 4K HDR, when Netflix and Disney Plus can? – CNET

Commentary: Game of Thrones, Warner movies and everything else should stream in peak picture quality. What’s the hold up, AT&T? …read more Source:: CNet


Cyberpunk 2077 delayed (again) to November 19 – CNET

Developer CD Projekt Red says it needs more time to balance game mechanics and fix bugs. …read more Source:: CNet


O365 Phishing Campaign Leveraged Legit Domains

A sophisticated scheme used legitimate redirection tools to convince victims to give up Office 365 credentials. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Dropbox is a Total Mess

Veteran journalist Om Malik, writing on his blog: I was reading Nikita Prokopov’s blog this morning and came across his very visual damnation of what is wrong with Dropbox. Like me, he too had thought that “in the beginning, Dropbox was great, but in the last few years, they started to bloat up.” He visually…


England ditches central database model for test-and-trace apps in favour of Apple/Google approach

Plus: Contact-tracing contracts dished out reportedly worth £108m The UK government looks set to abandon its centralised COVID-19 test-and-trace smartphone app in favour of the distributed system proposed by Apple and Google more than two months ago.… …read more Source:: TheRegister