Nothing’s budget-friendly brand CMF announced three new products, including a $200 smartphone There’s also a watch and earbuds.

July 8, 2024

CMF, a budget-friendly sub-brand Nothing announced last August, has officially unveiled a trio of new products. There’s a smartphone, a watch and earbuds, all of which seem to be modest in both price and features. Let’s start with the smartphone. Nothing made a splash with its original smartphone, the Nothing Phone 1, and the appropriately-named […]

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The best streaming devices for 2024 From sticks to dongles to set-top boxes, there are streaming devices for every budget.

July 8, 2024

A streaming device can make a “dumb” TV smart, turning just about any screen with an HDMI port into a TV you can use to watch Netflix, Peacock, Max, a live TV streaming service like YouTubeTV, or any other streaming app you subscribe to. If you already have a smart TV and don’t care for […]

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10B Passwords Pop Up on Dark Web ‘RockYou2024’ Release 10B Passwords Pop Up on Dark Web ‘RockYou2024’ Release

July 8, 2024

A user has leaked nearly 10 billion unique plaintext passwords on a popular hacking forum, seemingly obtained through several past breaches. The list is coined RockYou2024, due to its file name, rockyou.txt. Researchers say that while the list does have some value for attackers to make a brute-force attack, it's unlikely that any website would […]

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Identity Orchestration Is Gaining Traction Identity Orchestration Is Gaining Traction

July 8, 2024

COMMENTARY In the business-to-consumer (B2C) world, companies in consumer financial services will often have silos of identity information with widely differing formats, such as for current and savings accounts, credit cards, and mortgages. As a result, providing the customer with a seamless online experience across a multitude of different services can be difficult. This is […]

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Apple Geolocation API Exposes Wi-Fi Access Points Worldwide Apple Geolocation API Exposes Wi-Fi Access Points Worldwide

July 8, 2024

Apple's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) can be used to map and track Wi-Fi access points (APs) around the globe. But in a presentation at Black Hat 2024, University of Maryland researcher Erik Rye will demonstrate how he mapped hundreds of millions of APs in a matter of days, without even needing an Apple device or […]

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