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Samsung flexes its customization muscles with LockStar’s new fingerprint unlock animations

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-01 00:22:33

Joe Hindy / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has updated Good Lock’s LockStar module to support One UI 8. The updated module brings some fun, new fingerprint unlocking animations. Unfortunately, these animations don’t work on phones running One UI 7. Samsung is bringing some playfulness to the lock screen experience with the latest update to its LockStar module. Version 7.0.01.5 of the module targeted at One UI 8 introduces a handful of new fingerprint unlock animations that make unlocking de

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BlackSuit ransomware extortion sites seized in Operation Checkmate

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-01 02:34:13

Law enforcement has seized the dark web extortion sites of the BlackSuit ransomware operation, which has targeted and breached the networks of hundreds of organizations worldwide over the past several years. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed the takedown in an email earlier today, saying the authorities involved in the action executed a court-authorized seizure of the BlackSuit domains. Earlier today, the websites on the BlackSuit .onion domains were replaced with seizure banners announ

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Don’t get your hopes up for One UI 9 leaks as Samsung fixes this major loophole

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-01 09:41:57

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has patched a loophole that enabled many recent One UI leaks. The exploit allowed users to access internal OTA builds via a custom tool and decrypt metadata. You almost certainly won’t be treated to as many One UI 9 leaks going forward. The Samsung fans among you enjoy delving into One UI leaks, and we enjoy bringing them to you when they surface. The bad news for all of us is that it looks like the party might be over. According to a report

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BlackSuit ransomware leak sites seized in Operation Checkmate

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-01 14:34:13

Law enforcement has seized the dark web leak sites of the BlackSuit ransomware operation, which has targeted and breached the networks of hundreds of organizations worldwide over the past several years. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed the takedown in an email earlier today, saying the authorities involved in the action executed a court-authorized seizure of the BlackSuit domains. Earlier today, the websites on the BlackSuit .onion domains were replaced with seizure banners announcing

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EE and BT network outage resolved, firm says

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-01 18:40:14

EE and BT network outage resolved, firm says 21 minutes ago Share Save Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images A network outage affecting thousands of EE and BT customers has been resolved, a spokesperson has said. Customers reported they were unable to make or receive calls as the mobile phone and landline networks faced an outage. Some customers reported issues with making 999 calls, but the government said these had "now been restored". A spokesperson from BT, which

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Google rethinks search results with its new AI-curated ‘Web Guide’

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-01 23:44:03

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. On Thursday, Google launched Web Guide, a new AI-powered search feature that “groups links in helpful ways” for people who opt in to the test on Labs. Web Guide runs on a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model to process search queries, reorganizing the traditional “10 blue links” by sorting results and finding related questions using generative

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Microsoft: SharePoint flaws exploited in Warlock ransomware attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-01 23:53:14

A China-based hacking group is deploying Warlock ransomware on Microsoft SharePoint servers vulnerable to widespread attacks targeting the recently patched ToolShell zero-day exploit chain. Non-profit security organization Shadowserver is currently tracking over 420 SharePoint servers that are exposed online and remain vulnerable to these ongoing attacks. "Although Microsoft has observed this threat actor deploying Warlock and Lockbit ransomware in the past, Microsoft is currently unable to co

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Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-02 18:47:31

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google will officially deprecate links generated with its URL shortening tool next month. On August 25th, 2025, all links in the “https://goo.gl/*” format will no longer work and return a 404 error message. Google shut down its URL shortener in 2019, citing “changes we’ve seen in how people find content on the internet.” Links created with the tool

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PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-02 23:48:04

PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data This is a follow-up post to my PSA: SQLite does not do checksums and PSA: Most databases do not do checksums by default. In the previous posts I mentioned that SQLite does not do checksums by default, but it has checksums in WAL mode. However, on checksum errors, instead of raising error, it drops all the subsequent frames. Even if they are not corrupt. This is not a bug; it’s intentional. SQLite WAL SQLite introduced WAL in 2010. It’s

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How I fixed Gemini’s biggest flaw with one simple sentence

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-03 17:30:01

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority It’s a known fact that ChatGPT, Gemini, and most AI chatbots hallucinate answers sometimes. They make up things out of thin air, lie to please you, and contort their answers the moment you challenge them. Although those are becoming more rare instances, they still happen, and they completely ruin trust. If I never know when Gemini is saying the truth and when it’s lying to me, what’s the point of even using it? That’s why I mostly gravitate towards Perplexity

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Microsoft: SharePoint servers also targeted in ransomware attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-03 17:53:14

A China-based hacking group is deploying Warlock ransomware on Microsoft SharePoint servers vulnerable to widespread attacks targeting the recently patched ToolShell zero-day exploit chain. Non-profit security organization Shadowserver is currently tracking over 420 SharePoint servers that are exposed online and remain vulnerable to these ongoing attacks. "Although Microsoft has observed this threat actor deploying Warlock and Lockbit ransomware in the past, Microsoft is currently unable to co

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SonicWall urges admins to patch critical RCE flaw in SMA 100 devices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-03 20:17:39

SonicWall urges customers to patch SMA 100 series appliances against a critical authenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability that can let attackers gain remote code execution. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2025-40599) is caused by an unrestricted file upload weakness in the devices' web management interfaces, which can allow remote threat actors with administrative privileges to upload arbitrary files to the system. "SonicWall strongly recommends that users of the SMA 100 series produ

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US nuclear weapons agency hacked in Microsoft SharePoint attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-05 08:14:25

Unknown threat actors have breached the National Nuclear Security Administration's network in attacks exploiting a recently patched Microsoft SharePoint zero-day vulnerability chain. NNSA is a semi-autonomous U.S. government agency part of the Energy Department that maintains the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and is also tasked with responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies within the United States and abroad. A Department of Energy spokesperson confirmed in a statement that hac

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Power bank slapped with a recall? Stop using it now - here's why

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-01-05 09:01:00

Back in mid-June, Anker, along with the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), issued a recall for the Anker A1263 PowerCore 10000 power bank because Anker had received 19 reports of fires and explosions. These reports included two for minor injuries, and 11 for property damage totaling over $60,700. This was a popular power bank, with over a million units sold between June 1, 2016, and December 31, 2022, through retailers such as Amazon, Newegg, and eBay, as well as on Anker'

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US nuclear weapons agency reportedly hacked in SharePoint attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-05 14:14:25

Unknown threat actors have reportedly breached the National Nuclear Security Administration's network in attacks exploiting a recently patched Microsoft SharePoint zero-day vulnerability chain. NNSA is a semi-autonomous U.S. government agency part of the Energy Department that maintains the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and is also tasked with responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies within the United States and abroad. A Department of Energy spokesperson confirmed in a stateme

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Operator of Jetflix illegal streaming service gets 7 years in prison

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-05 21:13:30

The ringleader of the Jetflicks illegal paid streaming operation, a massive service with tens of thousands of subscribers, was sentenced to seven years in prison. Together with four other accomplices, 42-year-old Kristopher Lee Dallmann of Las Vegas, Nevada, was convicted in June 2024 of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. Dallmann was also found guilty by a federal jury of money laundering, criminal copyright infringement by distribution, and criminal copyright infringement by public

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RIP: Google finally sets a timeline for burying Reminders

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-06 04:19:40

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google recently confirmed the timeline for the complete transition from Reminders in Calendar to Tasks. Soon, the reminders you create in Google Keep will be saved directly to Tasks. With Google Keep being the final service using Reminders, the latter will likely be deprecated after the transition is complete. Google has a longstanding tradition of dispensing different apps with duplicate functionality and then killing the more prized variations. That app

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No Cheese Please

news.ycombinator.com Anthony Grafton 2026-01-04 21:42:11

Libraries were all the rage in Renaissance Europe, and no wonder. Theatres of knowledge, grandly decorated and proudly displayed, they hosted dramas of many kinds. Learned men used them for lively conversation on such irresistible topics as the philosophies of Hermes, Zoroaster and Pythagoras or relations between the later Roman Empire and the Persian king Shapur II, which Angelo Poliziano, Pico della Mirandola and others debated in the new Florentine library of San Marco. Yet they were also –

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Anthropic researchers discover the weird AI problem: Why thinking longer makes models dumber

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-01-06 23:27:31

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Artificial intelligence models that spend more time “thinking” through problems don’t always perform better — and in some cases, they get significantly worse, according to new research from Anthropic that challenges a core assumption driving the AI industry’s latest scaling efforts. The study, led by Anthropic AI safety fellow Aryo Pradipt

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New UK law would ban ransomware payments by publicly funded orgs

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-07 04:08:51

The British government has announced plans to move forward with a law that would bar public organizations from paying off ransomware attackers. The proposed legislation would add schools, town councils, National Health Service (NHS) hospitals and critical infrastructure managers to a ban which already applies to the national government. The logic behind banning payments is simple. If cybercriminals know a ransomware attack against a UK school or hospital won't get them paid, they'll look somewh

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LSM-2: Learning from incomplete wearable sensor data

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 00:27:44

Training and evaluation We leverage a dataset with 40 million hours of wearable data sampled from over 60,000 participants during the period from March to May 2024. The dataset was thoroughly anonymized or de-identified to ensure that participant information was removed and privacy was maintained. Subjects wore a variety of Fitbit and Google Pixel smartwatches and trackers and consented for their data to be used for research and development of new health and wellness products and services. The

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Apple alerted Iranians to iPhone spyware attacks, say researchers

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2026-01-07 09:57:48

Apple notified more than a dozen Iranians in recent months that their iPhones had been targeted with government spyware, according to security researchers. Miian Group, a digital rights organization that focuses on Iran, and Hamid Kashfi, an Iranian cybersecurity researcher who lives in Sweden, said they spoke with several Iranians who received the notifications in the last year. Bloomberg first wrote about these spyware notifications. Miaan Group published a report on Tuesday on the state of

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CISA and FBI warn of escalating Interlock ransomware attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-07 23:36:42

CISA and the FBI warned on Tuesday of increased Interlock ransomware activity targeting businesses and critical infrastructure organizations in double extortion attacks. Today's advisory was jointly authored with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) and it provides network defenders with indicators of compromise (IOCs) collected during investigations of incidents as recent as June 2025, along with mitigation meas

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Report: Apple alerted Iranians to spyware attacks in lead-up to war with Israel

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2026-01-08 14:24:44

You may have never heard of them, but Apple sends “threat notifications” to users when it believes they’re being targeted by cyber attacks. Earlier this year that happened with several Iranians in the lead-up to the Iran-Israel war, per a new Bloomberg report. Here are the details. Apple threat notifications were sent to over a dozen Iranian cyberattack victims Patrick Howell O’Neill writes at Bloomberg: More than a dozen Iranians’ mobile phones were targeted with spyware in the months prior

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MakeShift: Security Analysis of Shimano Di2 Wireless Gear Shifting in Bicycles

news.ycombinator.com Maryam Motallebighomi 2026-01-04 21:08:40

The bicycle industry is increasingly adopting wireless gear-shifting technology for its advantages in performance and design. In this paper, we explore the security of these systems, focusing on Shimano's Di2 technology, a market leader in the space. Through a blackbox analysis of Shimano's proprietary wireless protocol, we uncovered the following critical vulnerabilities: (1) A lack of mechanisms to prevent replay attacks that allows an attacker to capture and retransmit gear shifting commands;

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Betaworks’ third fund closes at $66M to invest in early-stage AI startups

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-01-08 18:05:00

New York City-based Betaworks has closed its $66 million Fund III, which will focus on investing in early-stage AI companies. Betaworks has been investing in AI since at least 2016 and, through its investment program Camp, has backed companies such as Huggingface and Granola. Jordan Crook, a partner at the firm (and former TechCrunch employee), said the new fund will focus on agents, native AI interfaces, and application-layer AI. “Around these themes, we will continue to do straight seed inve

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This keyboard case made my Pixel 9 actively painful to use — but I can’t stop typing on it anyway

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-08 21:00:22

Clicks Keyboard The Clicks case brings a full QWERTY keyboard with physical keys to selected phones, including the Pixel flagship series. It provides excellent tactile feedback and keyboard shortcuts to your typing experience, but makes the phone taller, a bit imbalanced, and cramped to hold or use. I lived through the early era of non-touch smartphones. My first “smart” phone was a Nokia 3250 Xpress Music with a glorious T9 keypad, and my first QWERTY was an HTC Qtek 9100 running Windows Mobil

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T-Mobile’s latest 5G network upgrades mean smoother video calls and online games

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-09 06:27:58

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile is the first US-based carrier to upgrade to a new “L4S” network technology, which reduces latency in its 5G networks. L4S improves upon existing technologies by decongesting networks in real-time, prioritizing applications that require faster internet. Thankfully, you don’t need to upgrade to newer hardware to use T-Mobile’s new low-latency tech. Choppy video calls or online games are among the most wicked ways to ruin someone’s mood. Every carri

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Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-09 14:20:14

Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech 41 minutes ago Share Save Sam Gruet Technology Reporter Reporting from Vancouver Share Save Getty Images Digital trucking apps look to minimise trucks without cargo When Jared first started out in trucking more than two decades ago, he didn't anticipate he'd be on tour with a country music star, hauling guitars, amps, and other pieces of on-stage equipment. "It just happened, right place, right time," the Canadian driver, who prefers not to use his

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Google Says ‘Screw It’ and Shows Us the Whole Pixel 10

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-01-09 23:15:56

There are a lot of ways to deal with gadget leaks. If you’re Apple, maybe a lawsuit is your style, but not everyone is as litigious, and that’s okay. Take Google, for example, which responded to Pixel 10 leaks by… just showing us the whole-ass phone. Here’s Google’s next mobile device in all of its glory, folks: Pixel 10 series sign up page is live on the Pixel Store now. pic.twitter.com/wE1UIbABXj — Mukul Sharma (@stufflistings) July 21, 2025 The official image, which is live on Google’s own

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Latest Tech News

Samsung flexes its customization muscles with LockStar’s new fingerprint unlock animations

BlackSuit ransomware extortion sites seized in Operation Checkmate

Don’t get your hopes up for One UI 9 leaks as Samsung fixes this major loophole

BlackSuit ransomware leak sites seized in Operation Checkmate

EE and BT network outage resolved, firm says

Google rethinks search results with its new AI-curated ‘Web Guide’

Microsoft: SharePoint flaws exploited in Warlock ransomware attacks

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Microsoft: SharePoint servers also targeted in ransomware attacks

SonicWall urges admins to patch critical RCE flaw in SMA 100 devices

US nuclear weapons agency hacked in Microsoft SharePoint attacks

Power bank slapped with a recall? Stop using it now - here's why

US nuclear weapons agency reportedly hacked in SharePoint attacks

Operator of Jetflix illegal streaming service gets 7 years in prison

RIP: Google finally sets a timeline for burying Reminders

No Cheese Please

Anthropic researchers discover the weird AI problem: Why thinking longer makes models dumber

New UK law would ban ransomware payments by publicly funded orgs

LSM-2: Learning from incomplete wearable sensor data

Apple alerted Iranians to iPhone spyware attacks, say researchers

CISA and FBI warn of escalating Interlock ransomware attacks

Report: Apple alerted Iranians to spyware attacks in lead-up to war with Israel

MakeShift: Security Analysis of Shimano Di2 Wireless Gear Shifting in Bicycles

Betaworks’ third fund closes at $66M to invest in early-stage AI startups

This keyboard case made my Pixel 9 actively painful to use — but I can’t stop typing on it anyway

T-Mobile’s latest 5G network upgrades mean smoother video calls and online games

Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech

Google Says ‘Screw It’ and Shows Us the Whole Pixel 10

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