Samsung has announced a new image sensor for smartphone cameras that it says has the smallest pixels in the industry. From a report: The ISOCELL JN1 is a 50-megapixel sensor with a relatively tiny 1/2.76-inch format, meaning its pixels are just 0.64um in size. For comparison, Samsung already broke records in 2019 with the slightly…

Still, it’s this or iOS Android 12 Beta 2 is here and contains many of the features that were teased during May’s Google I/O shindig including an overhauled control panel and additional privacy tools.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The E3 2021 hype has begun. …read more Source:: CNet

What we really have is an automation-in-the-wrong-place problem. …read more Source:: DarkReading

The desktop conferencing IoT gadget allows remote attackers to install all kinds of malware and move laterally to other parts of enterprise networks. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Uber mistakenly sent out an email to some of its drivers and delivery workers last month offering to cover some of their health insurance costs — only to revoke the offer two weeks later. From a report: On May 26th, an email from Uber with the enticing subject line “It’s a great time to get…

‘The group is united in making RISC-V an option in HPC,’ says SIG-HPC chair RISC-V International, the nonprofit at the helm of the free and open-source CPU instruction set architecture, says it is writing a high-performance computing (HPC) roadmap of “new features and capabilities.”… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Back in 1996, Bob Pease posed an experiment in an April Fools column. “Take an ordinary NPN transistor, ground the base, pull the emitter up to 12 V with a 1 KΩ resistor and measure the collector voltage referenced to ground.” Do the experiment, and you might be surprised to find a small negative voltage…

A seizure warrant affidavit unsealed today states Slilpp had sold allegedly stolen login credentials since 2012. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Brood X vents frustration at missed opportunity on free press, random Ohio drivers Following The Reg‘s recent exclusive coverage of the growing cicada threat to humanity, we can now reveal that US President Joe Biden narrowly missed being literally decapitated by a lone cicada assassin.… …read more Source:: TheRegister