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- Dune release date has been delayed yet again
- Start your weekend off right with eBay’s early Independence Day deals
- Telegram adds group video calling at last
- Tesla recalls more than 285,000 vehicles in China over cruise control safety concerns
- Apple reportedly sends warning letter to Chinese leaker
- Microsoft says its customer support tools were compromised by the SolarWinds hackers
- Now Microsoft’s app will say why your PC isn’t ready for Windows 11
- Read the Pentagon’s UFO Report to Congress
- Windows 11 will be able to sideload Android apps
- Go read this report on an app that turns intelligence gathering into gig work
| Dune release date has been delayed yet again Posted: 26 Jun 2021 08:42 AM PDT  Denis Villeneuve's Dune was among the big 2020 movies that saw its release date delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. After being moved to October 1st, Dune's release has been pushed back yet again, this time to October 22nd, Variety reports. The move was one of several releases Warner Bros. rescheduled, with the Clint Eastwood-directed Cry Macho moved to September 17th, and The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel to The Sopranos, moved to October 1st. The adaptation of the 1965 Frank Herbert sci-fi classic has an all-star cast that includes Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Stellan Skarsgård, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, and Javier Bardem. Dune is slated to be the first of two movies based on the...  |
| Start your weekend off right with eBay’s early Independence Day deals Posted: 26 Jun 2021 08:22 AM PDT  Prime Day is officially behind us — well, sort of. The annual two-day shopping blitz saw an abundance of terrific discounts, from noise-canceling headphones to brilliant OLED TVs, some of which have stuck around for the remainder of the week. Retailers are already moving on, however, and we're already seeing an influx of deals ahead of Independence Day, including a sizable discount on one of our favorite pairs of noise-canceling headphones, the Bose 700. But eBay isn't the only one offering discounts this weekend. Right now, you can also save on Apple's luxe Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro, the perfect summer speaker, and the white whale that is Microsoft's Xbox Series S. Save 15 percent on refurbished headphones and more at eBayWhile...  |
| Telegram adds group video calling at last Posted: 26 Jun 2021 07:00 AM PDT  Messaging chat app Telegram has added group video chat to its mobile and desktop apps at last, something it promised was coming back in April 2020. Voice chats in any group on the platform can be turned into video calls by tapping the camera icon to turn on your device's video. Telegram says an unlimited number of users can participate in an audio call, but group video calls will be limited to the first 30 people who join a voice chat. The company plans to increase that limit "soon," it said in its announcement. Users can also share their screens during a video call. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said in January that the company had reached 500 million active users, many of whom came to the platform after the...  |
| Tesla recalls more than 285,000 vehicles in China over cruise control safety concerns Posted: 26 Jun 2021 06:02 AM PDT  Tesla has had a run of bad publicity in China so far this year, with officials raising concerns over security risks, and protests about how the US automaker handles customer complaints in the country. On Saturday the stretch of bad news continued, as The Wall Street Journal reported that Tesla is recalling more than 285,000 vehicles in China—most of which were made locally— over a safety risk with the vehicles' cruise control, China's State Administration for Market Regulation said Saturday that the recall includes 249,855 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles that were made in Tesla's Gigafactory in Shanghai, and 35,655 Model 3 vehicles which were imported, all produced between December 2019 and June 2021, the WSJ reported. According to the...  |
| Apple reportedly sends warning letter to Chinese leaker Posted: 25 Jun 2021 06:37 PM PDT  Despite Apple's efforts to keep anyone from finding out what it's working on, leaks have continued to give the world early previews of new iPhones, Macs and more. Its campaign to plug the holes is apparently extending to threats of legal action, as the leaker known as "Kang" posted to Weibo this week about a notice he received from the company (via MacRumors). Kang currently holds the number one spot on the AppleTrack leaderboard, which attempts to compare the reliability of the information various leakers share, and AppleTrack indicates that other leakers have received similar messages. Prior to the iPhone 12 launch, Kang posted about all four models that Apple had prepared, revealing their prices, colors and planned release dates. A...  |
| Microsoft says its customer support tools were compromised by the SolarWinds hackers Posted: 25 Jun 2021 06:03 PM PDT  Microsoft says some of its customer support tools were accessed by the hacking group Nobelium, which was also connected to the separate SolarWinds attack, due to a Microsoft customer service agent's computer being compromised. Microsoft told Reuters that the agent had limited access, and was able to see things like what services customers used, and their billing contact information. According to Microsoft, the hackers used the info gleaned from the tools to start "highly targeted" attacks on specific Microsoft customers. The attack, Microsoft says, was part of a larger Nobelium campaign largely focused on IT companies and governments throughout the world. The company says it's reached out to the customers who were affected by the hacking...  |
| Now Microsoft’s app will say why your PC isn’t ready for Windows 11 Posted: 25 Jun 2021 02:49 PM PDT  Microsoft has updated its PC Health Check App to show more information about why your computer won't be able to run Windows 11, to help deal with some of the confusion that's sprung up around compatibility. If you've already downloaded the app, it should auto-update when you go to run it again, and if you haven't downloaded it yet you can get it here.
There's been a bit of confusion about what Windows 11 will and won't run on, and the previous...  |
| Read the Pentagon’s UFO Report to Congress Posted: 25 Jun 2021 01:43 PM PDT  An unclassified version of the Pentagon's report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs, aka UFOs) was sent to Congress on Friday, showing that more than 140 instances of strange sightings by military aircraft remain a mystery. This is the public's first glance at the 9-page report. Last year, Congress gave the Defense Department a six-month deadline to share classified and unclassified versions of a report on UAPs cataloged by the Pentagon's UAP Task Force. The task force's existence was announced in August 2020 and its mission is "to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security." Today marks the deadline. Senate committees received the classified version of the report on June 2nd. And...  |
| Windows 11 will be able to sideload Android apps Posted: 25 Jun 2021 12:18 PM PDT  According to an engineer at Microsoft, Windows 11 users will have the ability to sideload Android apps onto the operating system, which looks like an answer to one of the biggest questions we had when Microsoft announced it was bringing Android apps to Windows 11 via the Amazon Appstore (via Android Police). This means that once Windows 11 launches, you won't just have to stick to the apps that Amazon makes available, but it does raise some new questions about how running Android apps on Windows will work. For example, it's unclear what the process for running or installing a sideloaded app will be. Chrome OS technically has the ability to run sideloaded apps, too, but the process isn't exactly easy, as it involves enabling Linux and...  |
| Go read this report on an app that turns intelligence gathering into gig work Posted: 25 Jun 2021 12:11 PM PDT  Smartphones helped popularize the modern gig economy, and a new report from The Wall Street Journal suggests some companies like Premise have found a new way to take advantage of workers trying to make extra money — turning them into unwitting spies for corporate and military clients. As Journal reporter Byron Tau writes, Premise was originally started "to register prices in the developing world and help its customers better understand the needs of the population." But the company reportedly found even more success having contributors perform TaskRabbit and Mechanical Turk-esque work like completing surveys, taking photos of locations, and walking specific paths, while occasionally scooping up information about nearby Wi-Fi networks and...  |
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