An undetermined number of Samsung Electronics customers in the UK have had their personal data exposed through a data breach. Samsung confirmed through a notification sent to customers in the UK that the issue did not impact user passwords or financial information. Seemingly, one hacker exploited a vulnerability that caused the data breach. In its […]
Read MoreThe signal doesn’t necessarily have to be a visible color change—the team has also experimented with temperature. A second receptor pathway in these engineered plants responds to diazinon, an insecticide that’s currently banned for residential use in the United States. As part of the same study, the team used diazinon to turn on the plant’s […]
Read MoreAn estimated 1 in 3 Americans are exposed to harmful levels of noise on a regular basis, based on data gathered as part of the Apple Hearing Study. In recognition of International Noise Awareness Day, University of Michigan researchers working on the hearing study in partnership with Apple shared a blog post noise exposure. Extrapolating […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Yesterday, UK regulator the CMA published claims from both Sony and Microsoft with regards to the big Activision deal for Xbox. Microsoft is trying to purchase Call of Duty maker Activision for $69 billion dollars, as part of a push to get into mobile and PC gaming in a bigger […]
Read MoreA database containing the phone numbers of one-quarter of all WhatsApp users was recently put up for sale on a hacking community forum. The seller claims that the database was recent and contained 487 million phone numbers belonging to active WhatsApp users in 84 countries. WhatsApp has a user base of around 2 billion, which […]
Read MoreWestern Digital’s EdgeRover app recently put PCs and Macs in a tricky spot due to a traversal bug that left machines vulnerable to “disclosure of sensitive information” and DoS attacks. Western Digital didn’t share many details on the specifics of the issue at hand in its brief report on the situation, but it did state […]
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