From The Verge: Samsung’s latest tablet, the Galaxy Tab S5e, can reportedly lose its Wi-Fi connection if you hold it wrong. SamMobile reports that the problem occurs when you hold the tablet in a landscape orientation with the front-facing camera on the left. For some users this causes a reduction...
From PC Mag: The mobile version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) has proved very popular in China, attracting over 70 million players every day, but it can no longer be played after failing to receive regulatory approval.
As Reuters reports, Tencent Holdings has been forced to shut down the...
From CNET: Lenovo's bringing its AMD-based ThinkPad laptops out of A-series exile and rolling them into its main X- and T-series, indicated by "5" in the model number. The first models welcomed into the stable: The Thinkpad T495, T495s and X395, variations on the Intel-based T490, T490s and X390...
Have we reached "peak RGB"? In an age where we have RGB RAM and RGB PSUs, you might think we have put RGB LEDs on just about anything we could possibly imagine already. This was not until I walked into my church one Sunday morning and realized the wooden cross we had for the last twenty years or so has been replaced by none other than -- you guessed it -- an RGB LED cross. I kid you not, this is a high end RGB model where the LED lighting can be...
From TechCrunch: A security lapse at Canada’s fourth largest cell network Freedom Mobile exposed customer data.
Security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar found an Elasticsearch server leaking five million logs containing customer data. The server wasn’t protected with a password, allowing...
From The Verge: Starting this week, Facebook will begin a test to fact-check Instagram posts. Poynter reports that potentially false photos and memes shared on Instagram will be sent to the same dashboard that Facebook’s fact-checking partners — specialists like Factcheck.org as well as traditional...
From PC Mag: The US has budgeted $600 million to build its second "exascale" supercomputer, which is slated to go online in 2021.
The Frontier supercomputer will be capable of completing more than 1.5 quintillion calculations per second, according to the US Department of Energy, which announced...
From CNET: Consumers in the US are willing to pay much more for 5G than for current 4G service -- and by 2025, 20% of us could be using 10 times as much data as we currently do.
Those are some findings from a consumer survey about 5G that was conducted by Ericsson. The networking gear giant polled...
From The Verge: The EU is preparing to launch a formal antitrust investigation against Apple following Spotify’s official complaint, reports the Financial Times. Spotify claims that Apple uses its App Store to stifle innovation and limit consumer choice in favor of its own Apple Music service...
From PC Mag: A hacker has been breaking into GitHub accounts, purportedly wiping the code repositories and then demanding a ransom in exchange to restore the information.
The attack, which was initially noticed by ZDNet, has hit at least 392 different GitHub repos and defaced them with a ransom...
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