Day: September 22, 2021

Apple Bans Fortnite Until Appeals Are Exhausted in Legal Fight

Apple plans to keep Fortnite off of its App Store until appeals are exhausted in its legal battle with Epic Games, the maker of the popular battle-royale game. From a report: Apple sent a letter to Epic Tuesday saying that it “will not consider any further requests for reinstatement until the district court’s judgment becomes…


Unpatched Apple Zero-Day in macOS Finder Allows Code Execution

All a user needs to do is click on an email attachment, and boom – the code is silently executed without the victim knowing. It affects Big Sur and prior versions of macOS. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Maserati Grecale SUV will debut on Nov. 16 – Roadshow

The Grecale will slot below the Levante in Maserati’s lineup. …read more Source:: CNet


How REvil May Have Ripped Off Its Own Affiliates

A newly discovered backdoor and double chats could have enabled REvil ransomware-as-a-service operators to hijack victim cases and snatch affiliates’ cuts of ransom payments. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Best Apple MacBook deals: Save $149 on an M1 MacBook Air, $100 on M1 MacBook Pro – CNET

You can get Apple’s latest MacBook for as low as $850 right now at Amazon. …read more Source:: CNet


Turns out low-code and no-code is valuable to professional developers, too

Two in three IT professionals now see low-code as a workaround solution. ‘Low-code almost presents a counter-culture to traditional programming.’ …read more Source:: ZDNet


Lithuania Says Throw Away Chinese Phones Due To Censorship Concerns

Lithuania’s Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had built-in censorship capabilities. From a report: Flagship phones sold in Europe by China’s smartphone giant Xiaomi have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms…


Microsoft Surface Pro 8: Larger, faster and still doesn’t come with the keyboard – CNET

Microsoft’s newest two-in-one costs $1,099 and will be released Oct. 5. …read more Source:: CNet


[NSFW] Ofcom swears at the general public for five days during obscenity survey

‘Warning: this report contains highly offensive language and discussion of content which may cause offence’ NSFW UK comms regulator Ofcom has taken the unusual step of employing survey company Ipsos MORI to swear 186 times at 368 different members of the public and record what they thought about it.… …read more Source:: [NSFW] Ofcom swears…


Home Automation Terminal With Cyberpunk Style

The OLKB-Terminal designed by [Jeff Eberl] doesn’t have a battery, can’t fold up (even if it seems like it could), and is only portable in the sense that you can literally pick it up and move it somewhere else. So arguably it’s not really a cyberdeck per se, but it certainly does look the part….