Category: Tech and Innovation Insights

Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now nearly 1,000 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers. Enjoy playing word games? You can also check out my Wordle today, NYT Connections today and NYT Strands today pages for hints and answers for those puzzles. SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers. Your…

QLEDs have become more popular since Samsung introduced them as competitors to OLED. Despite the push for affordability, they still don’t come cheap. That’s why you should shop the latest sale on one of Samsung’s most popular QLEDs: You can get the Samsung 65″ Class QN90C Neo QLED 4K UHD Smart Tizen TV at Best Buy for $1,297.99 (was $1,599.99). This is the lowest price we’ve seen for Samsung’s 65-inch QN90C model. The QN90C ranges between 45 to 85 inches, but only the 55-inch, 65-inch, and 75-inch models are available.…

Researchers have uncovered private data of six million users of the popular Moonly astrology and lunar tracking app leaked online. The uncovered data includes dates of birth, exact GPS locations, and email addresses of users, as well as employee IP addresses and credentials, by experts at Cybernews. The GPS locations of where users created their accounts was part of the leak, meaning many users’ home or work addresses were disclosed, as well as over 90,000 customer email addresses. As is always the worry with sensitive information leaks, this leaves users…

As part of its latest Patch Tuesday cumulative update, Microsoft fixed a privilege escalation bug in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver (AFD.sys) for WinSock. This bug is tracked as CVE-2024-38193, and carries a severity score of 7.8. Abusing this flaw apparently grants attackers admin privileges on the vulnerable endpoint, with Microsoft noting, “an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.” However, the patch may have come a little too late, since some researchers said hackers were already abusing the bug, while it was a zero-day. In fact,…

The 2024 Democratic National Convention kicks off Monday, August 19 in Chicago and Joe Biden is expected to speak on the opening night. News and analysis will be broadcast around the world on US and global news channels. Traveling overseas? You may need to use a VPN to watch your usual DNC live stream or news channel from anywhere. Swipe to scroll horizontally Dates: Mon, August 19 – Thurs, August 22 US coverage: ABC, CNN, C-SPAN, FOX News, MSNBC, NBC, Newsmax, Spectrum, PBS US streams: Sling TV – half-price for your first…

Mac App Store users are at risk of fraud, as scammers find a way to trick the platform into accepting fake apps, an expert has warned. The fake apps, pretending to replace some of the world’s most popular productivity solutions, are offered for sale on the repository, according to a report by security researcher Alex Kleber. In his analysis, Kleber claims to have spotted five active Mac App Store accounts, all owned by a single actor, and all distributing fake apps. False pretenses These accounts offer apps such as “Work…

Google‘s recent Pixel hardware event gave us a slew of new devices; including the new Pixel Watch 3. This shift in the calendar has meant that Google’s new wearable arrives only a month after one of its biggest competitors – the Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 – made its debut. These two wearables make for a more direct comparison than perhaps any other smartwatches currently on the market, not least because they’re the two latest and best examples of a modern Wear OS-powered smartwatch available right now. But even with the…

Poor cybersecurity hygiene, which included exposed environment variable files, long-lived credentials, and the absence of least privilege architecture have resulted in multiple organizations being targeted with ransom attacks, experts have warned. A report from cybersecurity researchers Unit 42 outlined how they observed a successful extortion campaign’s cloud operations that leveraged exposed environment variable files (.ENV) that held sensitive data such as login credentials. The unnamed threat actors set up their attack infrastructure within Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments belonging to target organizations, and then used it as a launchpad to…

We think that Dark Matter is one of the best Apple TV Plus shows, and it looks like Apple agrees: it’s just greenlit the show for a second season. In a fun post on X, Apple TV Plus posted the teaser image below and said “in this reality, there will be a second season of Dark Matter“. If you haven’t seen the show you might not get the joke: Dark Matter is about alternate realities. It follows Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton) as his existing life is stripped away and he has…