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• Grindr flaw allowed hijacking accounts with just an email address
• Russian state hackers appear to have breached a federal agency
• Tesla will offer a bird's eye parking view, if you pay a premium
• The first 'Monster Hunter' movie teaser sets up an enormous battle
• Microsoft starts taking 'Flight Simulator' VR beta sign-ups
• Twitter's 'Birdwatch' is an experiment in fighting misinformation
• 'Minecraft' characters come to 'Super Smash Bros. Ultimate' on October 13th
• Miso is the future of restaurant tech and it doesn’t take much to invest
• Google initiative warns of Android security flaws in non-Pixel devices
• Hitting the Books: How colonialism unified the Western world's clocks
• Polestar 2 EV recalled over glitch that can cut power while driving
• The Morning After: We reviewed the new Apple Watch Series 6

Grindr flaw allowed hijacking accounts with just an email address Posted: 03 Oct 2020 03:00 PM PDT A Grindr vulnerability allowed anyone who knows a user's email address to easily reset their password and hijack their account. All a bad actor needed to do was type in a user's email address in the password reset page and then pop open the dev tools...

Russian state hackers appear to have breached a federal agency Posted: 03 Oct 2020 02:33 PM PDT Russia's 2020 hacking campaigns might have included a successful data breach at the US government. In the wake of a CISA notice warning of a cyberattack on an unnamed federal agency's network, Wired and security company Dragos have obtained evidence...

Tesla will offer a bird's eye parking view, if you pay a premium Posted: 03 Oct 2020 02:03 PM PDT It should soon be easier to manually park your Tesla — if you're willing to pay for the privilege. Elon Musk has revealed (via Electrek) that a "vector-space" bird's eye parking view is coming, but you'll need to buy the Full Self-Driving package. Th...

The first 'Monster Hunter' movie teaser sets up an enormous battle Posted: 03 Oct 2020 01:12 PM PDT After several years of development, you're finally getting your first glimpse of the Monster Hunter movie in action. Sony and IGN have shared a teaser trailer (via Polygon) for Paul W.S. Anderson's Monster Hunter production that gives a hint of what...

Microsoft starts taking 'Flight Simulator' VR beta sign-ups Posted: 03 Oct 2020 12:35 PM PDT You're now one step closer to playing the new Microsoft Flight Simulator in its most immersive format possible. Asobo Studio has opened sign-ups for a closed beta test (via Eurogamer) that will let you play Flight Simulator in VR. You'll initially ne...

Twitter's 'Birdwatch' is an experiment in fighting misinformation Posted: 03 Oct 2020 12:07 PM PDT Twitter has a new experimental tool called Birdwatch, and it's part of the platform's efforts to expand its arsenal of weapons against misinformation online. Social media consultant Matt Navarra has tweeted screenshots of the feature on mobile, showi...

'Minecraft' characters come to 'Super Smash Bros. Ultimate' on October 13th Posted: 03 Oct 2020 11:11 AM PDT You won't have to wait too long to play as a Minecraft character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Microsoft, Mojang and Nintendo have followed up their teaser by confirming that Steve and Alex will be available for SSBU brawling on October 13th as part...

Miso is the future of restaurant tech and it doesn’t take much to invest Posted: 03 Oct 2020 10:55 AM PDT When you think of people investing in state-of-the-art technology products, your mind probably turns to yacht-owning billionaires dropping obscene amounts of money on AI products you've never heard of. This persistent and unfortunate association betw...

Google initiative warns of Android security flaws in non-Pixel devices Posted: 03 Oct 2020 10:32 AM PDT Google already has efforts to improve Android security, such as speeding updates and offering bug bounties, but it's now ramping things up by disclosing flaws for software it didn't write. The company has launched an Android Partner Vulnerability Ini...

Hitting the Books: How colonialism unified the Western world's clocks Posted: 03 Oct 2020 08:30 AM PDT As ephemeral as space and as fundamental as gravity, time is an aspect of this universe that cannot be felt, only experienced through its cumulative passage. In his latest book, On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping, author Ken Mondschein, traces...

Polestar 2 EV recalled over glitch that can cut power while driving Posted: 03 Oct 2020 08:10 AM PDT Polestar's 2 EV is off to a rough start. The automaker told Dagens Industri (via Reuters) that it was recalling all examples of the Polestar 2 (nearly 2,200) due to a software glitch that led to power losses, even while the vehicle was driving. There...

The Morning After: We reviewed the new Apple Watch Series 6 Posted: 03 Oct 2020 04:55 AM PDT If you're looking for a phone that's different, then I think LG has the answer. The LG Wing has a design unlike any other device, with a screen that rotates to reveal a second, smaller display. Richard Lai spent time with a pre-production unit and c...

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