Bug in FaceTime app’s programming allowed the callers to eavesdrop on the receivers of the call. All they had to do was to add themselves to the talk before the receiver picked it up and voila, they were suddenly receiving all the audio from the receiver even before she/he picked it up. Apple has temporarily closed down FaceTime’s group chats and is currently working on a fix that should be available this week. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Huge leak of Russian data, or how the Reds finally got the taste of security leak
Like WikiLeaks, only this time it is the eastern colossus that got hit. 108 gigabytes worth of secret mails, documents and recorded talks from Kremlin have just been released online. The culprit is a newly created group of hacktivists called Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoS; group has been created in December 2018 by a collective of white hat hackers, journalists and researchers operating from the darknet (parts of the Internet that cannot be found by a simple browser search), whose supposed mission is to dig out hard to find data for beneficial use. According to Emma Best, one of the ...
Finally! Specs of Sony Xperia XZ4 revealed
First renders of Sony’s Xperia XZ4 flagship have been revealed as early as in November 2018, but we have had to wait our fair share of time for its specs to appear online. Well, the wait is now over: almost complete specifications of the device have just been revealed on GizmoChina website. Other than the camera’s configuration (main camera is supposed to be a triple set), we now know almost everything about it:– flat OLED display, 6,5′, 21:9, QHD+ 3360×1440p, Corning Gorilla Glass 5,– Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 CPU, 8 cores,– Adreno 640 GPU,– 6 GB RAM ...
Xiaomi Mi Band 3 in a new box
Haha, that news reminded me of my short stint as a telemarketer. My job was to call people, doctors to be specific, and tell them that the XXX medicine is now being sold ”in a new, exciting box shaped like a heart”. Ah, old times… Mi Band 3, a pretty popular smartband by Xiaomi, will soon be sold in a new package. You can see how it will look on the picture above: the new box is oblong instead of an old square, and every box is adorned in the same colour that the band unit inside is. Aaaaand that is all. Yeah. If you expected some wonderful changes then sorry, there are ...
Release of new ”Doom” movie postponed
Did you even know that a new Doom movie is in the works? I have not. Turns out that it is: the flick’s director is one Tony Giglio, with Louise Mandylor and Amy Manson in main roles. Other than a few names and a bunch of pictures from the studio, we do not have any information about the movie other than that it will come out this year. According to latest news, though, it will come out later this year than expected, and the reason for that delay is not half bad: it is said that the creators of the flick want to put more work into scenes taking place in hell. Seeing how the fiery pits ...
Russian Internet users will be forced to register their web-connected devices
Russia joins the list of countries fighting with online anonymity. Russian government (that is, Putin) has implemented a law bill according to which, starting on February 2020, every device connected to the Internet will have to be registered beforehand. This bill is supposed to help fight illegal trade of, for example, stolen smartphones, but it is not hard to figure out that it will give the Russian government means to trace anyone online using their MAC address or IMEI number. What is more, registration will not even be free, but will cost 100 ruble per device.The bill will supposedly ...
Some of Samsung Galaxy A10 specs surfaced
Smartphone with a model number SM-A105F have just had its benchmark released online. According to the leaked document, this smartphone will come out with Exynos 7885 CPU and 2 GB RAM – rather low specs that suggests Galaxy A10 will be budget phone of the new A line. Device’s core test score is fittingly low as well, scoring 1103 points in single and 3324 points in multi-core tests.We do not know when nor where will Galaxy A10 be released, nor its price. Tweet Vote on ...
LG is also working on a 5G smartphone, because of course it does
According to a report from ETNews, LG wants to reveal a 5G-enabled V series smartphone during this year’s Mobile World Congress event. LG has already made a ”normal”, non-5G V series smartphones; the decision to use the existing brand has been reportedly made to avoid the time and money-consuming process of creating a new one. Rumour is that the device was at first planned to be housed under the G series brand, but the word now is that the upcoming G8 ThinQ will be the last device in that line.No specs of this new 5G device are available. What we do know is that it will be ...
Metro Exodus will only be available on Epic Games Store
Well that is odd. Metro Exodus, another sequel in the pretty famous series about people living in the post-apocalypse Russia, was supposed to get released on Steam in few weeks; the game already had its page there, pre-orders were available, the works. Suddenly, out of blue, the game has been removed from Steam’s offer and instead moved to a different platform, namely the newborn Epic Games Store (yes, the same Epic Games that released Fortnite). Looks like Deep Silver, the publisher behind Metro Exodus, have made a last minute decision to change their game’s publishing platform ...
Moto Z3 Play now available for $300 with promo code
Moto Z3 Play did not enjoy a large overall success due to its price: $499 for a device with its specs was a bit too much. Now, though, this pretty fine smartphone can be bought for mere $299; the only thing you need to do to get it so cheap is to sign up for Fry’s Electronics promotional code. The offer is up until the end of the week OR until the supply runs out. Z3 Play’s specs include:– 6′ display, bezelless, Max Vision AMOLED, FHD+,– Snapdragon 636 CPU,– 4GB RAM, 32/64GB ROM,– side-mounted fingerprint scanner,– dual rear camera, 8mpx ...