hey guys it's time for the tech news and we got some good stuff today so hold on
to your hats because it's gonna be super good
you haven't talked about them for a little while they probably haven't been
up to anything sketchy right wrong if a wall street journal report has anything
to go by technicians working for huawei and uganda and zambia helped the
governments of both of those countries spy on their political opponents the
huawei employees used the company's network and specifically a software
called pegasus to intercept messages and relay them to the governments the
practice was apparently done at the request of the country's police after
they had tried and failed to intercept messages themselves now huawei says that
this was the work of huawei employees executives in china had no idea was
going on and the company has never been engaged in hacking activities
now technically if they're just monitoring their own
network it's not hacking like if i pick up someone's wallet after they drop it
on the ground that's not technically stealing yeah it's like finders keepers
that's my wallet now yeah microsoft has warned of four new vulnerabilities in
Windows that are wormable which beyond just sounding nasty means
that they can be used by hackers to make malware jump from one computer to
another like space because the flaws are so
similar to the blue key vulnerability that microsoft patched way back in may
they are collectively being called deja blue demonstrating
that the only thing worse than security flaws are the dorky names researchers
come up with to name them i would have named it that's awesome
who wrote this you did the deja blue flaws are found in the Windows remote
desktop services which allow users to take control of a remote computer and
unlike blue keep affect newer versions of Windows including Windows 10 and
Windows server 2019 researchers are working on patches right
now and they better hurry up because if they don't fix them soon
i'll just want to cry do you get it
and speaking of security snafus researchers from vpn mentors say that a
database containing 28 million records used for building security around the
world has been publicly accessible for some time the database used in the
biostar 2 security system created by south korean company suprema contains
plain text passwords of course photos of people's faces personal information and
even fingerprint scans used to gain access to secure buildings the
researchers found the database during a routine network scan so it's fair to say
anyone with some tech know-how could have accessed it they also say they were
able to change data in the database adding their own fingerprints so that
they could access buildings owned by companies that used biostar 2. the
database has since been hidden but who knows who stole whose fingerprints
in the meantime are a bunch of wannabe ethan hunts running around stealing
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AMD is launching a new line of graphics cards and by graphics cards i mean
pre-built gpus and by new i mean old the
Radeon 600 series from the bottom end Radeon 610 to the top end rx 640 that's
that's top end not high end are apparently based off the 28 nanometer
olan gpus from 2013 and are expected to
show up in pre-built pcs and locked laptops
so why are we even talking about this riley
sounds old yeah old stuff in new stuff is that what we're talking about here
it's news about old stuff brutal guess what facebook was also paying human
contractors to listen to recordings of its users duh recordings like voice
memos sent using facebook messenger were reviewed by humans to ensure accurate
transcription but the company apparently stopped the practice a week ago
you know when all the other recording stories were popping up and look if
you're surprised by that i don't know what to tell you you might want to do
some brilliant daily challenges or something because your brain
needs to work better this is how they make the technology guys apple is
gearing up to launch new iphones this fall as they do but the company is
reportedly switching up their naming scheme again
come september we'll be looking at the iphone 11 the 11 pro the 11r and the 11
max why not just take it all the way let's throw an iphone 11 plus uh an
iphone 11s 10 to x or 10.
who knows while we're at it maybe an sc 11 000. i'm happy about this actually
what's not fun is being kicked off your flight because your macbook pro might
explode like it's a cot dang samsung
note 7 or something the federal aviation administration has announced a ban on
certain 2015 macbook pros because of the
faulty battery issue that triggered an apple recall back in june if you've
repaired your model and have the paperwork to prove it you should be able
to fly just fine you actually have to carry paperwork
holy cow but if not well i should have got a Windows laptop don't at me hey got
em wow that's hilarious just a piece of paper taped to your laptop and tumblr's
sad saga continues with the blogging platforms acquisition by automatic the
company that owns wordpress tumblr's selling price
less than 3 million that doesn't seem too bad until you compare it to the 1.1
billion that yahoo paid for tumblr back in 2013. and if you're about to cheer
the return of lewd photos on the platform
sorry the porn ban will reportedly remain in effect but have you heard
about the rest of the internet that's it for the tech news today sorry
i i can't do more but come back on friday because
oh boy someone else will be here to do more stuff like that my knees are
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