Day: April 5, 2021

No, no, let’s hear this out, says judge waving away Apple’s attempt to kill MacBook Pro Flexgate lawsuit

Surely this back light problem would have come up in testing, court mulls A US court has rejected Apple’s request to throw out a potential class-action lawsuit accusing the iGiant of knowingly selling MacBook Pro laptops with defective display cables.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


US Indicts California Man Accused of Stealing Shopify Customer Data

A grand jury has indicted a California resident accused of stealing Shopify customer data on over a hundred merchants, TechCrunch reported Monday. From the report: The indictment charges Tassilo Heinrich with aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit wire fraud by allegedly working with two Shopify customer support agents to steal merchant and customer data…


World’s largest Nintendo Switch has a 4K display, functional controllers – CNET

Unfortunately, it doesn’t come with the world’s largest Nintendo Switch dock. …read more Source:: CNet


Apple Mail Zero-Click Security Vulnerability Allows Email Snooping

The researcher is offering details on CVE-2020-9922, which can be triggered just by sending a target an email with two .ZIP files attached. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds

Amazon illegally retaliated against two of its most prominent internal critics when it fired them last year, the National Labor Relations Board has determined. From a report: The employees, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its warehouse workers. The agency…


Music Production Studio in a Box

[Emil Smith] is an electronic music producer in the Greater London area. He spent a lot of time commuting in and out of central London, so he decided to put together COVERT-19, a portable music production studio. After making a couple of prototypes, [Emil] settled on what he needed from his portable studio: a sampler,…


Bitcoin is Trading Near $66,000 in South Korea as ‘Kimchi Premium’ Returns

Bitcoin is trading near $66,000 levels in South Korea as “Kimchi Premium” has returned. From a report: Kimchi Premium is the spread between bitcoin’s price on South Korean crypto exchanges and Western exchanges. Bitcoin is currently trading at around $66,200 on Bithumb, according to TradingView. That is whopping about 15% or $9,000 higher than bitcoin’s…


Cadillac Lyriq electric SUV hits the road for prototype testing – Roadshow

Cadillac plans to launch its first electric car in the first half of 2022. …read more Source:: CNet


Best laptop deals: Save $400 on a Dell XPS 13 or Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 and more – CNET

From budget Gateway models to new Intel Evo machines, you can save hundreds on a new laptop. …read more Source:: CNet


Insider-Trading Indictment Shows Ties To Bloomberg News Scoops

For more than six months, federal prosecutors say, a New York man used inside information to make illegal profits in the stock market — and a core element of his alleged scheme was his interaction with Bloomberg News, which published several stories shortly after the trader arranged to make significant purchases of the companies’ shares….