New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — spooked like much of the nation at a more infectious Covid-19 strain identified in the UK – asked the federal government to require that airlines test all passengers on U.S.-bound flights. He clinched an unusual private arrangement with three of them, Delta, British Air and Virgin Atlantic, which agreed
EXCLUSIVE: Disney’s flagship streaming service, Disney+, and its established sibling Hulu lead the list of streamers in total TV advertising impressions in 2020, according to ad tracking firm iSpot. The rankings (see them in full below) define an impression as a verified playing of an ad on a TV screen for at least three seconds.
Discovery has upped its stake in OWN to 95% with the network’s founder and namesake Oprah Winfrey receiving $35 million worth of Discovery stock in exchange, according to an SEC filing Tuesday. Discovery and Winfrey launched OWN in 2008 and the David Zaslav-led media company has periodically raised its stake in the joint venture. It
President-elect Joe Biden gave a sobering year-end message, particularly about the challenges remaining in the Covid-19 crisis and in the impact of the massive cyberattack on U.S. government agencies. Biden said that there was hope with a new vaccine, which he received on Monday, but that the virus is still raging out of control, with
Airtel Xstream, the Web streaming service that was earlier exclusive to Airtel users, is now available for all. With the new update, you can watch your favourite content on Airtel Xstream even if you’re not on the Airtel network. The service is available at Rs. 49 a month or Rs. 499 a year. Airtel claims
Let’s Encrypt, an open certificate authority that gives digital certificates to websites to enable HTTPS, has extended Android compatibility for its certificates for older phones allowing for continued safe Web browsing. The development was shared on the official website of Let’s Encrypt. The certificate authority said it was able to come up with a solution
Three dozen journalists working for Al Jazeera had their iPhones stealthily compromised via a zero-click exploit to install spyware as part of a Middle East cyberespionage campaign. In a new report published yesterday by University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, researchers said personal phones of 36 journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera, and a
Australia’s antitrust regulator on Tuesday rejected an undertaking by Alphabet-owned Google that sought to address competition concerns over its planned $2.1 billion (roughly Rs. 15,400 crores) acquisition of fitness tracker maker Fitbit. The development comes as Google remains at loggerheads with the Australian government over a number of issues, including proposed laws that will make
Everyone makes mistakes. That one sentence was drummed into me in my very first job in tech, and it has held true since then. In the cybersecurity world, misconfigurations can create exploitable issues that can haunt us later – so let’s look at a few common security misconfigurations. The first one is development permissions that
Apple has shared a fix for users facing a “Pairing Canceled” issue when trying to connect their Apple Watch with Apple TV. Some users were experiencing this issue when trying to use Apple Fitness+ on Apple TV, which requires the Apple Watch to be connected with the Apple TV. Apple says the issue is related
A team of researchers today unveils two critical security vulnerabilities it discovered in Dell Wyse Thin clients that could have potentially allowed attackers to remotely execute malicious code and access arbitrary files on affected devices. The flaws, which were uncovered by healthcare cybersecurity provider CyberMDX and reported to Dell in June 2020, affects all devices
Lava BeU has debuted as the latest budget smartphone by the Indian vendor. The new phone is designed for women, the company says, with crystal-studded deco and floral speaker mesh. The Lava BeU also comes preloaded with a safety app. Alongside the new smartphone, Lava is planning to launch four new smartphones on January 5,
As the probe into the SolarWinds supply chain attack continues, new digital forensic evidence has brought to light that a separate threat actor may have been abusing the IT infrastructure provider’s Orion software to drop a similar persistent backdoor on target systems. “The investigation of the whole SolarWinds compromise led to the discovery of an
Law enforcement agencies from the US, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, along with Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), announced today the coordinated takedown of Safe-Inet, a popular virtual private network (VPN) service that was used to facilitate criminal activity. The three domains in question — insorg[.]org, safe-inet[.]com, and safe-inet[.]net — were shut down, and their infrastructure
Shares in digital conglomerate Interactive Corp. are up 14% today after the company announced that its video subsidiary Vimeo will be spun off into its own company in 2021. In the quarter ending in September, Vimeo had 1.46 million subscribers, a gain of 21% from the same period a year ago, with revenue of $75.1
UPDATE (12/17): A pair of bills legalizing and decriminalizing cannabis in New Jersey passed during a historic vote Thursday. A bill to downgrade possession of less than one ounce of psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound in psychedelic mushrooms, to a disorderly persons offense also passed. The bills await Governor Phil Murphy’s signature. *** Election Day marked
Winter is coming… Tim and Faith got the kids together for a little Game Of Thrones themed family dinner this holiday season. And while the girls pulled out all the stops, Tim’s costume left folks scratching their heads a bit. Sharing the photos to social media, we can see the Faith as the Night King, along with
Alfred Howard‘s new collaboration with folk duo Siren Songs continues an ambitious, year-long experiment from the prolific and diverse musician: Write, record and release a total of 100 songs, two per week. Ahead of the Thursday (Dec. 17) release of “Letter to Your Heart,” readers can press play below to listen. Siren Songs’ Jenn Grinels and Merideth Kaye
The world can now see Chadwick Boseman‘s last performance before he died … and the role is sure to strike a high note, especially if you’re into jazz. The late actor starred in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” which premieres Friday on Netflix. Chadwick plays a trumpeter named Levee in an early 20th-century jazz band. The
Bridgerton It’s the social season in Regency-era London, and all is fair in love and war. In the latest teaser for Shonda Rhimes’ new drama, the mysterious Lady Whistledown (voiced by Julie Andrews) promises to share every scandal of the season in her gossip pamphlet. It appears that Lady Whisltedown will have her eye on