Day: August 20, 2020

iFixit horses around with Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G to discover glue in abundance

Something to consider if you splash out on Samsung’s new hotness The Galaxy Note20 is Samsung’s most ambitious phone in recent memory, with impressive optics and a redeveloped S-Pen experience. But is it easy to repair? The latest teardown from iFixit suggests not, thanks to liberal use of adhesive.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Klobuchar, Microsoft’s Smith Warn of Election Interference

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Microsoft President Brad Smith warned of ongoing election interference through technology on Thursday at an Axios virtual event on the Future of Employability. From a report: “It was four years ago at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that our eyes were first opened to nation-state cyberattacks on candidates and…


Some Email Clients Are Vulnerable To Attacks Via ‘mailto’ Links

A lesser-known technology known as “mailto” links can be abused to launch attacks on the users of email desktop clients. From a report: The new attacks can be used to secretly steal local files and have them emailed as attachments to attackers, according to a research paper published last week by academics from two German…


IBM Db2 Flaw Gives Attackers Read/Write Access to Shared Memory

Researchers discover a lack of explicit memory protections around the shared memory used by the Db2 trace facility. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Lyft to suspend ride-hailing in California – CNET

The move comes after a judge ruled that ride-hailing companies must classify their drivers as employees. …read more Source:: CNet


Teslas accounted for over 80% of EVs sold in first half of 2020, data shows – Roadshow

The only EV to outsell a particular Tesla model was the Chevy Bolt EV. …read more Source:: CNet


133-year-old Lick Observatory survives brush with California wildfire – CNET

The historic facility east of San Jose is hallowed ground to astronomers. …read more Source:: CNet


California wildfires spread massive plumes of smoke in bleak images from space – CNET

A series of wildfires across California have consumed thousands of acres of land and triggered evacuations. …read more Source:: CNet


Cisco Critical Flaw Patched In WAN Software Solution

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Microsoft nudges latest TypeScript iteration out onto the mean streets of JavaScript

Alright! Variadic tuple types The TypeScript team has released version 4 of the JavaScript superset to General Availability.… …read more Source:: TheRegister