james you might have seen tech news but you've never seen it like this hit it
tech news so how would you like to make a cool million bucks without having to
throw money down the drain on lottery tickets sounds fun or risk apple is
offering you just that with its new bug bounty program i don't think it's quite
that but it's designed to entice folks to find flaws with iphone security
although apple had previously offered prizes of two hundred thousand dollars
to invited researchers only the company is now opening up its top reward to
anyone who can fully control an iphone via hacking but if you are an actual
cyber security professional apple will be offering modified iphones that will
be a little easier to break into that's always nice with the hope that serious
bugs are discovered before they get rolled out to the masses apple's cash
rewards have been responsible for uncovering more than four dozen serious
issues since 2016 so if you think you have the hacking chops go give it a try
a million dollars can buy a lot of galaxy s10s which you should definitely
be getting instead of the note 10. if Linus hot take
it's not really hot it's a warm lukewarm take while we're on the subject
of hacking iphones one security researcher has discovered and developed
a sneaky new way to break into idevices
i don't know we're gonna find out by packing modified hardware into a
standard looking lightning cable researcher mike grover was able to
establish a wireless connection with a connected iphone and subsequently
subsequently and subsequently gain full control over it although grover stated
that a direct connection would work from up to 300 feet away the cable could also
be set up to connect to a wireless network allowing the hacker remote
access from anywhere although at this point the fake cable is a prototype it
does demonstrate a sneaky new way of compromising your own security which you
shouldn't do grover wants to sell the cables to use for legitimate security
purposes but you may want to think twice about no-name brand cables in the future
or if someone you once beefed with gives you one as a gift hey man let's put that
in the past here's a new charger here's a here's a nice steak
because we i beefed um okay although megapixels on a camera spec sheet aren't
as important as they used to be samsung has plans to put a still eye-popping
number of pixels into your next smartphone 108 million of them to be
specific that's a lot that's too many a new sensor that samsung has developed
with xiaomi called the iso cell bright hmx will feature a 108 megapixel
resolution and will also be capable of shooting video in 6k a sensor with this
many pixels is unsurprisingly physically larger that's how reality works which
will both improve overall picture quality as well as help low light
performance though the larger size means that space constraints might keep it
from widespread adoption no word yet on exactly when we'll see it hit the market
though if it finds a way into the upcoming me mix 4 you might be able to
get your hands on it around christmas time and snap plenty of high-res photos
of your weird uncle making everyone uncomfortable at christmas dinner oh joe
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come on if you're the proud owner of a canon dslr you might want to check for
security updates like now
do it junior as a flaw has been discovered that enables attacks through
the camera's wi-fi connection the issue is centered around the picture transfer
protocol which isn't secured making it easy for hackers to gain access to an
inserted sd card and install ransomware
yeah pay up and if you just photographed say
a wedding you might have a lot more to worry about in that case than a lost
commission an angry bride you don't want
to get in her way fortnite streamer ninja is unhappy over
an attack on his now dormant twitch channel after recently switching over to
microsoft's mixer yesterday morning someone accessed his channel and
uploaded a two hour porn stream and ninja is also frustrated that twitch has
been using the channel to promote other streams ninja has received an apology
though i wonder how many unwitting 12 year olds have gotten in trouble with
their parents who haven't got a clue what twitches no they all moved to mixer
i'm not going to comment on that although the future of autonomous vehicles holds a great deal of promise
there are still some kinks to work out after a driver in moscow moscow had his
tesla hit a stopped tow truck after which the tesla exploded due to damage
to the battery pack oh gosh the driver and his family fortunately escaped but
for the time being make sure to keep your eyes on the road if you own a self-driving car i'd even go so far as
to say stop watching TechLinked if you're behind the wheel of one right now
i know we we can take the loss on this one in
soviet russia car drives you yeah
tinder is tired of giving a cut of its profits to google and apple for
processing payments through their respective app stores and will instead
ask singles who want to buy additional features to pay with a credit card
directly through the app because of how high profile tinder is it may end up
setting a trend for other apps to follow suit though if you want my opinion
paying for online dating isn't worth it believe me i know i don't know that's
john saying that i i've never used
a dating app i don't know about those
and although the chinese authorities have been loathed to embrace crypto the
country will soon be rolling out its own electronic currency it's not clear
exactly when it'll be available to chinese consumers but their government
would probably want to debut an easy to control digital currency free of foreign
technology sooner rather than later i don't think anything here in canada is
free of foreign tech except maybe our syrup refineries is that a thing
dude we have blackberries you know bbm meme oh you mean the phone
i thought you're talking about the fruit like blackberry syrup all the above you
ever had blackberry syrup on pancakes
all right that's it for today come back wednesday for more of that authentic
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and all canadian no american writers syrup all over the place