Snap recalls discontinued Pixy drone over fire risk

February 1, 2024

Snap and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are recalling the company’s discontinued Pixy drone and telling owners to stop using it or charging the batteries because of a fire hazard. This comes after the safety agency received “four reports of the battery overheating and bulging, resulting in one minor battery fire and one minor […]

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Arc is building an AI agent that browses on your behalf

February 1, 2024

For years, Google (or any other search engine) has been the main gateway for people to discover websites and other content. The Browser Company, which makes the Arc Browser, is on a quest to change that by building an AI that surfs the web for you and gets you the results while bypassing search engines. […]

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Meta Quest adds support for Apple’s Spatial Video ahead of Vision Pro launch

February 1, 2024

Apple’s brand-new Vision Pro headset has lost one of its competitive advantages over rivals, as Meta announced today that it, too, will add support for spatial video playback on its more affordable Meta Quest. Spatial video, also known as stereoscopic videos, are videos Apple customers themselves can film with any iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone […]

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US gives federal agencies 48 hours to disconnect flawed Ivanti VPN tech

February 1, 2024

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has ordered federal agencies to urgently disconnect Ivanti VPN appliances given the risk of malicious exploitation due to multiple software flaws. In an update to an emergency directive first published last week, CISA is now mandating that all federal civilian executive branch agencies — a list that includes the Homeland Security […]

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Here is Apple’s official ‘jailbroken’ iPhone for security researchers

February 1, 2024

In 2019, Apple announced it would start sending some security researchers a “special” version of the iPhone designed to be used to find vulnerabilities, which could then be reported to Apple so the company could fix them. In 2020, the company started shipping the devices, which are designed to have some security features disabled, making […]

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Polygon Labs lays off 60 employees, about 19% of its staff, CEO says

February 1, 2024

Polygon Labs, the team focused on building the layer-2 blockchain Polygon, has laid off 60 employees, or about 19% of its staff, according to a post published Thursday by CEO Marc Boiron. The Polygon chain is one of the biggest layer-2 blockchains focused on scaling Ethereum. It has assisted over 2.44 billion transactions, deployed over […]

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Google says YouTube now has over 100 million subscribers

February 1, 2024

Google said today that YouTube now has more than 100 million paid users across YouTube Music and YouTube Premium. This number is up from the 80 million paid users the company mentioned in November 2022. Earlier this week, during its Q4 2023 earnings call, Sundar Pichai said that Google’s subscription business has now crossed $15 […]

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