The United States typically fell within the top 10, albeit not the top position as you’d expect from the country that invented the damn thing. But that changed with the latest analysis. The US now sits in the 11th position with 25% of US households having access to speeds of up to 25 Mbps or…
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This seemingly benign photograph is bricking Android phones when set as a screensaver or wallpaper.
Word spread on social media of a particular photograph that is causing some phones to go into a continuous reboot sequence when the photo is set as the screensaver. It’s been tested and yeah, it does trigger the reboot. In some instances, you cannot escape out of the sequence effectively bricking the phone and requiring…
Facebook debuts Twitter-like app, Venue, during today’s NASCAR event.
No doubt about it, the US just froze Huawei out of the 5G market because they’re scared.
Zuckerberg dead at 39? No post fact checking says child molester Mark Zuckerberg? Websites test Facebook’s policy of free speech.
Websites are throwing some good shade at Mark Zuckerberg this week after he proclaimed Facebook should not be the “arbiter of truth”. The statement came after Twitter flagged President Trump’s tweets as “deceptive”. In response to Facebook’s announcement, satire websites began place clearly fictional posts on the social network platform as a test of Facebook’s…
NSA issues security alert warning of new wave of cybersecurity attacks against email servers conducted by Russia’s GRU.
The NSA says that members of Unit 74455 of the GRU Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST), a division of the Russian military intelligence service, have been attacking email servers running the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA). Also known as “Sandworm,” this group has been hacking Exim servers since August 2019 by exploiting a critical…
Forget the 26 new USB bugs found in Linux and Windows, it’s the security fuzzer tool that discovered them that’s the news.
A research team from Purdue University has created a tool, USBFuzz, which fuzzes calls to the USB driver stack. Apparently the tool is pretty groundbreaking. The researchers said, “At its core, USBFuzz uses a software-emulated USB device to provide random device data to drivers (when they perform IO operations).” The researchers tested the tool on:…
Leak shows Motorola’s upcoming foldable will be a powerful upgrade to last year’s Razr.
If the leaks are correct, Motorola’s second foldable phone iteration, the successor to the 2019 Motorola Razr, is getting a big spec upgrade. According to rumors, it’ll be powered by a Snapdragon 765 5G chipset and will come with 8GB RAM, 265GB storage, and a 2,845mAh battery, slightly larger than the origina Motorola Razr foldable.…
This awesome crashing wave decorating the outside of a Seoul Aquarium is the World’s Largest Anamorphic Illusion.
Guccifer 2.0 mistakenly reveals identity after accidentally dropping VPN connection – and yes, pigs can fly
News erupted this week proclaiming the enigmatic hacker, Guccifer 2.0, accidentally dropped his VPN connection, revealing his secret identity. According to Daily Beast, his true IP address was revealed while he visited a social media site – and it tracked directly to Russia’s GRU headquarters. That’s akin to Batman forgetting to put on his mask…










