Technical

Facebook has long been aware of a vulnerability that led to a major data breach in 2018 that affected 30 million users. Court documents show that Facebook only solved the problem after nine months.The British newspaper The Telegraph has…

The European Parliament has passed a resolution calling on the European Commission to come up with stricter rules for universal chargers by July this year. Parliament also wants wireless chargers to work with as many smartphones as…

The six cockpit screens in Boeing 737 NG passenger aircraft all turn off as the aircraft approach seven specific runways via the instrument approach procedure. The cause is a software bug.It concerns seven runways; five are located in…

Security researchers have shown an easy-to-execute way to break the sha-1 hash algorithm. It is possible with the attack to produce identical hashes from different input types.The vulnerability was found by two security researchers from…

A Singapore company will start shipping the Helios64, a five-bay open-spec NAS system, in March. The company wants to release as much technical data about the system as possible and offer support for open source software.Kobol reports…

LG announces four new soundbars. The most expensive models are equipped with a tuning technology that the manufacturer calls AI Room Calibration. Furthermore, most new soundbars have Dolby Atmos and DTS:X.According to LG, AI Room…

A chat app that is particularly popular in the Middle East, but also has users in the US and Europe, turns out to be a spy tool from the United Arab Emirates that can monitor users.According to the New York Times, installing the ToTok app…

Version 2.10 of the web browser Vivaldi has been released. Vivaldi is a web browser developed by former Opera employees. He mainly focuses on power users and users of Opera before the switch to Chromium, although this browser is also…

IKEA will release Shortcut Buttons in February. These are physical buttons to which users can link multiple functions via the Home Smart app, such as turning off both the lighting and the Symfonisk speakers. The buttons will cost 7…

Developer Oatmeal Dome has created a Gamecube and Wii emulator for iOS. The app currently only works on jailbroken iOS devices. The project is in an alpha phase, so the app still has some problems.Developer Oatmeal Dome released the…