Letter: the US Treasury says China-backed hackers gained access to some Treasury workstations and unclassified docs; a vendor notified it of the hack on Dec. 8
FBI Investigation Underway, China Suspected Huileng Tan / Business Insider : The US Treasury says some computers were breached by China-backed hackers United States Department of the Treasury : Dear C...
Microsoft releases Xbox Cloud Gaming in beta on the Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro, for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers
here's how to play Kieron Verbrugge / Press Start : Xbox Cloud Gaming Is Now Available On Meta Quest VR Headsets David Matthews / TechSpot : Meta Quest owners can now play Xbox games on their headsets...
Google says Chrome 99 on macOS outperforms Safari on WebKit's Speedometer 2.0 benchmark by 15%, scoring 300 points, the fastest performance of any browser yet
here's why Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider : Chrome beats Safari in Apple's Speedometer browser test Roman Loyola / Macworld : Google's latest Chrome for Mac update is faster than Safari-for now David Mat...
Amazon says it will not ask employees to remove TikTok from their mobile devices, and an internal email asking them to delete the app was sent in error
then walked back the policy and said it was an ‘error’ Rachel Lerman / Washington Post : TikTok users fear app shutdown as security concerns grow David Matthews / TechSpot : Amazon bans TikTok citing ...
Google says any Android device running 7.0 or later can now be used as a security key for two-factor authentication
Here's What You Need To Know Tyler Lee / Phandroid : Google lets you use your Android phone as a security key, here's how to activate it Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint : Your Android phone is now a physi...
Facebook says it will ban white nationalist and white separatist content, pointing users to nonprofits, after initially only banning white supremacist content
Today we're announcing a ban on praise … Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : It shouldn't take a tragedy for tech companies to fight hate on their platforms Reuters : Facebook bans white nationalism, w...
Chrome will no longer autoplay videos with sound starting from January 2018
Here's Why You Should Be Worried Ryan Whitwam / ExtremeTech : Google Chrome Will Block Autoplaying Video With Sound Next Year David Matthews / TechSpot : Chrome is finally doing something about those ...
Andy Rubin apologizes for email, misconfigured as a group message, sent to Essential customers requesting personal info, like DOB, to which ~70 replied
now it might have accidentally phished them Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo : Essential's Shipping Issues Have Gone From Bad to Train Wreck Sean Hollister / CNET : Essential admits it accidentally leaked cus...