Bose’s latest wireless noise-canceling headphones: the QuietComfort 45. Bose They look largely similar to the previous QuietComfort 35 II. Bose The Bose QuietComfort 35 II, for reference. Jeff Dunn Bose is promising improved active noise cancellation, call quality, and battery life with this update. Bose They’ll be available in these two finishes. Bose They use …
Immediate Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against Ransomware• Make an offline backup of your data.• Do not click on suspicious links.• If you use RDP, secure and monitor it.• Update your OS and software.• Use strong passwords.• Use multi-factor authentication. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency …
Enlarge / Let’s see, you landed on my “Google Ads” space, and with three houses, that will be $1,400. Ron Amadeo / Hasbro South Korea will soon pass a law banning Apple’s and Google’s app store payment requirements. An amendment to South Korea’s Telecommunications Business Act will stop app store owners from requiring developers to use …
School is back in session all across the country, and it’s also a time when you’re probably considering a new computer to help with schoolwork. If that’s the case—or even if it’s not the case and you’re shopping for different but equally valid reasons—but sure to check out an outstanding Amazon deal where you can save …
New vulnerabilities have been discovered in Fortress S03 Wi-Fi Home Security System that could be potentially abused by a malicious party to gain unauthorized access with an aim to alter system behavior, including disarming the devices without the victim’s knowledge. The two unpatched issues, tracked under the identifiers CVE-2021-39276 (CVSS score: 5.3) and CVE-2021-39277 (CVSS …
A group of academics has proposed a machine learning approach that uses authentic interactions between devices in Bluetooth networks as a foundation to handle device-to-device authentication reliably. Called “Verification of Interaction Authenticity” (aka VIA), the recurring authentication scheme aims to solve the problem of passive, continuous authentication and automatic deauthentication once two devices are paired …
The Macalope has given The Washington Post a hard time lately for its excessively neener-neener coverage of Apple so it’s only fair that he also criticizes the paper for falling for Apple’s PR spin about its settlement with developers. “Apple loosens rules for developers in major concession amid antitrust pressure” Congratulations, developers! You won! What …
Apple’s laptops rely on flash storage, and prices really shoot up if you want more local storage (the actual storage on your computer)—if the model you want offers an upgrade in the first place. The Optimized Storage feature in macOS is designed to help free up precious storage space on your Mac. Optimized Storage requires …
Details have emerged about a now-patched security vulnerability impacting Microsoft Exchange Server that could be weaponized by an unauthenticated attacker to modify server configurations, thus leading to the disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). The issue, tracked as CVE-2021-33766 (CVSS score: 7.3) and coined “ProxyToken,” was discovered by Le Xuan Tuyen, a researcher at the …
Update 4:30 p.m. PT: Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has more detail on this supposed future capability, which is more limited in scope than previously reported. With the iPhone 13 release getting closer and closer, speculation is heating up about the features of the new phone. The latest comes from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who states in …