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Report: iPhone SE could shed its 10-year-old design “as early as next week”

February 7, 2025

The rumor mill’s most reliable sources have been pointing to a refresh for Apple’s low-end $429 iPhone SE to land early this year, and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that the…

Technology

Broadband And TV Customers Continue To Flee Charter And Comcast As Ridiculous Merger Talks Percolate

February 7, 2025

For a long while there it was good to be a lumbering U.S. cable monopoly. Companies like Comcast and Charter pretty much enjoyed a monopoly on broadband at “next generation”…

Technology

Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode

February 7, 2025

It’s been a month since we first heard rumors that the Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons could be slid across a flat surface to function like a computer mouse. Now, a…

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Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong

February 7, 2025

Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include launching national security satellites, putting astronauts on the Moon,…

Cybersecurity

CISA Warns of Active Exploitation in Trimble Cityworks Vulnerability Leading to IIS RCE

February 7, 2025

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that a security flaw impacting Trimble Cityworks GIS-centric asset management software has come under active exploitation in the wild. The…

Cybersecurity

Microsoft Identifies 3,000+ Publicly Disclosed ASP.NET Machine Keys Vulnerable to Code Injection

February 7, 2025

Microsoft is warning of an insecure practice wherein software developers are incorporating publicly disclosed ASP.NET machine keys from publicly accessible resources, thereby putting their applications in attackers’ pathway. The tech…

Cybersecurity

AI-Powered Social Engineering: Reinvented Threats

February 7, 2025

The foundations for social engineering attacks – manipulating humans – might not have changed much over the years. It’s the vectors – how these techniques are deployed – that are…

Cybersecurity

India’s RBI Introduces Exclusive “bank.in” Domain to Combat Digital Banking Fraud

February 7, 2025

India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), said it’s introducing an exclusive “bank.in” internet domain for banks in the country to combat digital financial fraud. “This initiative aims…

Technology

Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

February 7, 2025

Something in the sky captured the attention of astronomers in the final days of 2024. A telescope in Chile scanning the night sky detected a faint point of light, and…

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DeepSeek is “TikTok on steroids,” senator warns amid push for government-wide ban

February 7, 2025

Lawmakers are now pushing to immediately ban the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek on government devices, citing national security concerns that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) may have built a backdoor into…

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