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Tech AMD's Radeon vulnerability haul shows why you should always update your GPU drivers Rittenhouse mistrial motion filed, again with Apple tech under scrutiny Snap hit with lawsuit for downplaying the impact of Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature Apple agrees to pay workers $30 million to settle lawsuit over bag check policy Apple Announces Self Service Repair Program, Starting With iPhone...

Tech Twitter Blue Available in US for $3/Month, If You’re a Sucker Twitter announces new dedicated crypto team Discord teases NFT integration and people are pissed Discord walks back NFT and cryptocurrency plans Tim Cook says he owns cryptocurrency, Apple ‘looking’ at it for Apple Pay DoJ Arrests Hacker Involved With REvil Group That Stole Apple's MacBook Pro Schematics Judge denies Apple's reques...

Tech Facebook's parent company is now named Meta Facebook is dropping the Oculus name after rebrand Facebook Shuttering Facial Recognition System, Will Delete Data From Over a Billion Users Meta: Facebook Facial Recognition Shut Down But May Return On-Device Super Follow now available to all iOS users; Twitter Blue detailed Cricket Wireless Removes 8Mbps Speed Cap on Select Plans, Adds 5G Access t...

Tech Apple Releases Polishing Cloth for $19 Fake YouTube Apple event stream draws 30k viewers before turning into crypto scam Governments planned to misuse CSAM scanning tech even before Apple’s announcement Google’s Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are finally official with bigger batteries, upgraded cameras, and Android 12 Everything You Need to Know About ‘Pixel Pass’ Introducing Android™ Apps on Windows 11 t...

FYI: This is an Animal Crossing episode. Needless to say, there will be plenty of distractions in between news stories! Tech Shareholders have pressured Microsoft into re-thinking its approach to right to repair Updated burning tool makes it easy to ignore Windows 11 system requirements Microsoft has crushed the worst DDoS attack its Azure servers have ever encountered Data breach sees millions of...

Tech Storage study finds SSDs might not be much more reliable than HDDs after all Apple TV+ 'Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' to air on PBS on October 24 Paddle unveils 'first alternative' to Apple's App Store In ... - 9to5Mac A memory leak in Windows 11's File Explorer is holding users' RAM hostage Windows 11 Killer networking bug may slow connection speeds in some games Google turning on 2-...

Tech Twitter to Pay $809.5 Million to Settle Investor Class-Action Lawsuit Amazon Drivers Are Punished When Other People Cut Them Off: Report Microsoft really doesn't want you installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware The release version of Windows 11 is now available to everyone in the Insider program Windows Microsoft Store Adds Support for Alternate App Stores Like Epic Games NBC tried to f...

Tech Everything Announced at Today's Apple Event Apple fires engineering manager Ashley Gjøvik for allegedly violating company’s rules Epic vs Apple ruling revealed: Apple must allow App Store devs to redirect users to other payment systems Epic appeals Apple verdict, ponders meaning of the word 'button' iPhone exploit sold to United Arab Emirates by mercenaries working for US firm London police c...

Tech Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts ‘Primates’ Label on Video of Black Men ProtonMail under fire after giving authorities an activist's IP address National Privacy Test shows Americans 2nd-most privacy savvy, after Germans Twitter testing the ability to remove followers without blocking them Apple and Norfolk State University team up to deploy 5G iPad Pro and accessories to all students Gamin...

This week, we have a frank and honest discussion on why it isn't so easy to just leave Twitch. If there are any topics you'd like to see covered, reach out to ttt@majorshouse.com or join the Discord at https://majors.house/discord You can follow us at: https://twitter.com/majorlinux https://twitter.com/synxiecbeta https://twitter.com/kevikevshow https://twitter.com/IdiosynAnca Catch the video vers...

Tech Facebook adds end-to-end encryption to audio and video calls in Messenger 100M T-Mobile customers at risk from 'full personal data' hack T-Mobile hack confirmed, carrier says 47.8M records taken; not just customers Gigabyte responds to failing PSU reports: adjusts overpower protection and offers exchanges Google unveils $449 Pixel 5a with 5G: 6.34" OLED, big battery, IP67, & coated metal...

Tech Privacy Whistleblower Edward Snowden and EFF Slam Apple's Plans to Scan Messages and iCloud Images Apple CSAM FAQ addresses misconceptions and concerns about photo scanning Apple call center workers fear AI-powered surveillance cameras in their homes Apple bans internal employee surveys on pay equity and more Asus is rolling out BIOS updates to alleviate likely Windows 11 upgrade headaches Tw...

Tech - Pocket Casts Has Been Acquired - Report: active zero-click iMessage exploit in the wild targeting iPhones running the latest software, used against activists and journalists - Apple defends iPhone security amid NSO’s Pegasus zero-click iMessage exploit - Apple Warns Against Using Hydrogen Peroxide Disinfectants on Products - Apple Will Delay Bringing Employees Back to Offices Until at Least...

Tech Latest iOS 14.7 beta fixes bug that caused certain network names to disable your iPhone's Wi-Fi President Biden signs executive order calling for the restoration of net neutrality AT&T Removes Unlimited Data Cap, Expands Hotspot Data and 4K for Best Plan Watch out for your email inbox because one of the biggest ransomware botnets is back Microsoft is bringing Windows to a web browser, and...

Tech Popular Audacity audio app dubbed 'spyware' by users over policy changes from new owner Audacity under fire for a terms of service update Clarification of Privacy Policy · Discussion #1225 · audacity/audacity · GitHub A specific network name can completely disable Wi-Fi on your iPhone U.S. President Joe Biden to Direct FTC to Draft Right to Repair Rules Cybersecurity wakeup call as hackers ta...

Tech You should unplug your WD My Book Live immediately if you don't want to lose all your data Carrier caught injecting ‘SMS AD’ into Google verification code message Google Pay gains the ability to save and display COVID vaccination cards on Android (CW: Mention of suicide) Robinhood trading app hit with $70M penalty for 'misleading' customers A driver containing rootkit malware was certified by...

Tech Biden abandons Trump's plan to ban TikTok, calls for broader security review instead TikTok privacy policy now references 'faceprints and voiceprints' Razer sets its sights on saving the seven seas with smart robots Graphene could allow hard drives to hold 10 times more data Pirated games helped a malware campaign compromise 3.2 million PCs Fastly CDN Server Issue Brings Down Swathes of Websi...

Tech iPadOS limits iPad Pro power: apps only able to use up to 5 GB RAM each Have I Been Pwned teams up with the FBI to collect a lot more stolen passwords Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors The 'next generation' of Windows will be revealed on June 24 Gaming Team Liquid and Alienware launch international social good platform Far Cry 6 narrative director issue...

Tech Windows 10 has a built-in ransomware block, you just need to enable it The “Twitter Blue” subscription plan will cost you $3 monthly but you still won’t get editable tweets Oculus update set to enable impressive mixed reality capture on iPhone XS and later Spotify getting accessiblity improvements on iOS/Android including auto podcast transcription The engadget : Amazon is reportedly negotiat...

Tech This panda hungers for your Steam and Discord logins Microsoft yanks a dodgy AMD driver that is bricking some Windows 10 PCs Instagram users can now add pronouns to their profiles Wi-Fi vulnerabilities affect most devices, but the risk is small Your WiFi Just Became More Secure Thanks To The FragAttacks Project Gaming Apple vs Epic trial discusses Itch.io's "unspeakable" games Microsoft's Con...

Tech NY AG report finds 18 million FCC net neutrality comments were fake PlayStation invests in Discord and plans integration with PSN in 2022 Researchers find new CPU vulnerabilities and say fixes would kill performance If your CPU usage is inexplicably spiking, try installing this optional Windows 10 update Signal Shares the Instagram Ads Facebook Doesn't Want You to See AirTag stalking 'frighte...

Tech - Intel and TSMC say chip shortage could last until 2022 or beyond - Apple agrees to let Parler back on the App Store, citing improved moderation - Google says the only thing keeping Parler off the Play Store is Parler - The folks behind Brave Browser slam Google for its new tracking policy - Discord reverses decision to block iOS users from accessing any NSFW content - Watch out, crypto-mini...

Tech Apple admits that iMessage for Android was killed to keep its walled garden Tim Cook: Epic wants to turn the App Store into a 'flea market' Domino's Begins Autonomous Pizza Delivery Clubhouse user data gets exposed, CEO claims it wasn't a leak FBI arrest Texas man for attempting to blow up 'the internet' with C-4 Discord for iOS will block users from accessing all NSFW servers Report reveals...

Tech Snap has tested workaround to App Tracking Transparency; 95% effective Personal data from over 500M Facebook users leaked online Mark Zuckerberg's contact details included in Facebook leak You can now turn on Nvidia's excellent noise cancellation with any GeForce GPU AMD admits Ryzen 5000 CPU exploit could leave your PC open to hackers Working from home worth $30K a year to some, finds poll M...

Tech U.S. Carriers Fix SMS Routing Vulnerability That Let Hackers Hijack Texts New spyware on Android pretends to be a system update for your phone Apple Lobbies Against 'Right to Repair' Bill Over Privacy Concerns of Third Party Repair Shops Accessing User Data WWDC 2021 officially announced, iOS 15 expected Verizon 3G Network Will Shut Down End of 2022 Google Meet extending ‘unlimited’ video cal...