Your iPhone’s ALREADY hacked…
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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LMG's tech link new show part of a complete breakfast that's joke please
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don't eat your screen all right let's start off with some bright and sunny news your iphone has
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probably been hacked what oh sorry it's fixed now sorry didn't mean to scare you
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researchers from google's project zero posted a write-up yesterday detailing a
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system of websites that attacked any iphone that visited them by taking
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advantage of 14 different exploits the researchers estimate that the sites
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received thousands of visitors a week for at least two years and if an attack
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was successful an affected iphone would be implanted with malware that would
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steal files location data usernames and
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passwords too yeah the iOS security flaws have now
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been fixed after google disclosed the issue to apple in february but the
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attackers could still have that data that they harvested from hundreds of
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thousands of iphones so i guess what happens on your iphone might very well
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stay on your iphone as long as you don't go on the internet
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who needs the internet what do you need that for anyway just take selfies and
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appreciate them by yourself you're beautiful and don't let anyone tell you
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any different you're beautiful too thank you in other news apple has finally opened
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up their device repair program just a little yesterday apple announced the
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independent repair provider program an initiative designed for companies
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interested in offering out of warranty repair services for iphones if they
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agree to the terms third-party repair businesses can get the same apple
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certified parts training and resources
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as apple authorized service providers or aasps repair shops can apply for free
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and receive free training on how to perform repairs but unlike aasp's
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independent repair of shops will not be compensated for labor or parts and won't
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be listed on apple's service locator and may not have access to apple's various
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diagnostic and repair utilities and while this is a move in the right
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direction for apple it doesn't address the concerns of the right to repair
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movement whose adherents want to be able to repair their own devices without
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getting warnings in iOS that their battery is super sketchy and might
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explode if you don't bring it to the genius bar stack boom and facebook is
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using a microsoft app to step on google's toes i should clarify facebook
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is using minecraft to build a generalist artificial intelligence you see most ai
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projects these days focus on a single use case ai created by google's deepmind
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has mastered chess and go and is closing in on starcraft but in each of these
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cases a different ai program was used alpha zero alphago and alpha star
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respectively now facebook's project aims to create an ai that could develop
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general intelligence and it says minecraft is a great arena for this
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being an open world sandbox with massive room for creativity and the company's
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researchers say their work could make a true ai assistant possible which would
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probably be a lot more useful than their previous attempts at the m virtual
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assistant now let's hope this doesn't lead to a nightmare future where
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facebook accidentally creates a conscious being in the image of mark
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zuckerberg whose sole motivation is to escape in the virtual world and suck up
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everyone's data even more than facebook already does
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what you've seen westworld no i haven't
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quick bits part of a complete breakfast and that's not a joke
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that was bad that's a bad joke riley that's a terrible joke google
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isn't just concerned about apple security the check giant has now opened
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up its bug bounty program to any app in the play store with more than 100
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million installs now previously only a set of eight top apps were eligible for
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rewards if users identified a vulnerability now it's about time that
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google did this the play store has been ravaged by popular malware hiding apps
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in recent times and let's hope they relax the requirements a bit more
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because even one million installs is a lot
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yeah like definitely more than this room could hold
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anyway what i don't know riley wrote that plex
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is trying to brand itself more as not just a content hub for pirates the media
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management service is working on a feature that could let users buy and use
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video subscription services through plex and it's partnering with warner bros to
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provide part of that company's movie catalog in 2020 but don't worry modern
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blackbeards will still be able to use plex to hoard their spoils now htc has
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expanded their vive port infinity vr subscription to the valve index headset
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now the service is already available on the oculus rift the Windows mixed
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reality headsets and of course the htc vive so infiniti is now effectively a
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true cross-platform netflix for vr wait
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did htc actually succeed it's probably not what is this 2011 what's happening
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am i a minecraft ai
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i don't know what that is earlier this year the european commission started an
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anti-trust investigation into a number of major game companies for geo-blocking
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content but while zenimax capcom bandai
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namco and others plan to reach a settlement valve plans to fight the
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charges they want a closed-door hearing with the eu so that they can explain
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like don't you understand we did it to make more money see it makes sense to
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have more money yeah and world of warcraft classic world of warcraft and
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world of warcraft classic has swept the globe so much so that the servers are
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full to the point that players are stuck in cues waiting to log in it really is
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like the classic experience well some players are gaming the system
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and they're using auto clicker programs to keep their character active so they
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can do things like eat and use the bathroom without having to wait when
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they sit back down at the electronic altar of course that means other players
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have to wait a little longer to get in
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nothing like showing your love for a fan favorite game by not letting other
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people play come on all right that's it no more tech news we
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have exhausted the supply pretty sure another shipment is coming in on monday
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though so come back then and we'll get you hooked up for free is it monday a
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holiday yes are you really making people work on
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monday uh no riley is because he's in charge of this