Serious Android vulnerability requires a fix

This new vulnerability has been detected in Androids 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 8.0, 8.1 and 9. It allows the 3rd party to take control of smartphone simply by having its user open a .png file (a picture). Google has pointed out three vulnerability packs in the Framework subsystem: two of them can be found in every of the abovementioned Android systems and one is only ...

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New emoji for iOS 13 and Android Q. Hurray

Yaay, more funny pictures. Awesome. Unicode Consortium has just released the listing of emojis that will be released along with two new large operating systems, meaning they will come out sometime in second half of this year. 60 out of them will be new graphics, and other 170 will be recolours of old ones. Among new ones are onion, hearing aid and a person ...

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Death, password and bitcoins

Passwords are fleeting. It is easy to forget them. When you cannot login into your, say, My Little Pony forum account, you give them your e-mail address and reset the old password to get a new one; when you cannot get into your e-bank account, you take a trip to their nearest post, show them your ID card and they give you a new password. When you forgot ...

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YouTube considers removing thumbs down

It is in YouTube's interest that the videos uploaded in it are popular. What makes videos less popular? Negative notes, largely. That is why, though of course no one will admit it officially, YT plans on removing thumbs down in an unforseen future. Google also has other, similiar ideas: remove the thumb down by default but leave option of seeing it, leave ...

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