Day: February 18, 2021

Android 12 preview focuses on notification and performance updates – CNET

The early release comes as the tech world has been shaken by Apple’s privacy updates to its own operating system. …read more Source:: CNet


Hiding in Plain Sight: What the SolarWinds Attack Revealed About Efficacy

Multilayered infiltration involved custom malicious tooling, backdoors, and cloaked code, far beyond the skills of script kiddies. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Exploit Details Emerge for Unpatched Microsoft Bug

A malicious website or malicious ad can trigger an exploit for the IE zero-day bug, opening the door for data theft and code execution, new analysis notes. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 will be free to watch on YouTube for 48 hours – CNET

Netflix is marking the anniversary of the trial’s verdict. …read more Source:: CNet


The Apple TV app is now available on Chromecast with Google TV – CNET

Apple TV is also coming to 2021 Sony and TCL Google TVs. …read more Source:: CNet


GameStop stock hearing: Watch here live as Robinhood, Reddit testify to Congress – CNET

The US House Financial Services Committee is holding a hearing over GameStop’s stock volatility. …read more Source:: CNet


The kids are all right… for Google: Firm talks up 40 new Chromebook models, school-focused ChromeOS refresh

Mountain View sees your kids at home this year, with its devices in their laps The PC industry is expected to release 40 new Chromebook models this year, according to Google. This is almost certainly driven by sky-high demand for the basic computing devices, which are especially popular in classrooms home schooling.… …read more Source::…


Biden To Order Review of US Reliance on Overseas Supply Chains For Semiconductors, Rare Earths

President Joe Biden will direct his administration to conduct a review of key U.S. supply chains including semiconductors, high-capacity batteries, medical supplies and rare earth metals. From a report: The assessment, which will be led by members of both Biden’s economic and national security teams, will analyze the “resiliency and capacity of the American manufacturing…


Best juicers for 2021 – CNET

We tested the most popular juicers to find out if the juice is worth the squeeze. …read more Source:: CNet


Citi Can’t Have Its $900 Million Back

Matt Levine: Last August, Citigroup wired $900 million to some hedge funds by accident. Then it sent a note to the hedge funds saying, oops, sorry about that, please send us the money back. Some did. Others preferred to keep the money. Citi sued them. Yesterday Citi lost, and they got to keep the money….