Jan 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Android Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a now-patched security flaw impacting Monkey’s Audio (APE) decoder on Samsung smartphones that could lead to code execution. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-49415 (CVSS score: 8.1), affects Samsung devices running Android versions 12, 13, and 14. “Out-of-bounds write in libsaped.so prior to SMR Dec-2024
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OpenAI might have added several new options to its Custom Instructions feature for ChatGPT on Thursday. Several users shared screenshots of these new options in custom instructions that allow users to further personalise the responses generated by ChatGPT. These new options include options to add the user’s nickname, profession, as well as personality traits. However,
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When Disney announced their acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019, Marvel fans knew it was only a matter of time before the X-Men joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s been five years of a slow rollout, with projects like X-Men ’97 and Deadpool & Wolverine showing just how rabid fans are for Marvel’s merry
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The special occasion will mark the actor’s fourth time hosting Timothée Chalamet is set to take on his third hosting stint at Saturday Night Live — but this time, he’ll also serve as the musical guest. Yes, you read that right. NBC announced Friday that comedian Dave Chappelle will host the sketch show on Jan. 18, with musical guest
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Pamela Anderson in ‘The Last Showgirl’. Photo: Roadside Attractions. Opening in theaters January 10th is ‘The Last Showgirl,’ directed by Gia Coppola and starring Pamela Anderson, Dave Bautista, Jamie Lee Curtis, Billie Lourd, Kiernan Shipka, Brenda Song, and Jason Schwartzman. Related Article: Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis Talk Drama ‘The Last Showgirl’ Initial Thoughts Pamela
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The Grand Slam tennis season begins Down Under at Melbourne Park for the 2025 Australian Open January 11-26 Italy’s Jannik Sinner is reigning men’s singles champion, while World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka (pictured above) of Belarus is looking for a third straight Australian Open win. Sinner will face tough competition in Novak Djokovic, who is
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What to Know The Palisades Fire in the community of Pacific Palisades started Tuesday morning and grew to more than 20,000 acres. The deadly 14,000-acre Eaton Fire in Altadena destroyed homes and businesses. The Hurst Fire start late Tuesday in Sylmar, located in the northern San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. The Lidia Fire broke
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First thing’s first: let me clarify that my use of “woke” in the title refers to how a certain subset of the population incorrectly defines “woke,” and that the term as we know it today originally came into use in the Black American community in the ’60s. Read more about that here. Now for this
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The atmosphere at the Disney Bundle Celebrating National Streaming Day at The Row in Los Angeles on May 19, 2022. Presley Ann | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Disney said Wednesday it has an estimated 157 million global monthly active users watching ad-supported content across its streaming platforms — Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+. That
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Jan 09, 2025Ravie Lakshmanan Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new, stealthier version of a macOS-focused information-stealing malware called Banshee Stealer. “Once thought dormant after its source code leak in late 2024, this new iteration introduces advanced string encryption inspired by Apple’s XProtect,” Check Point Research said in a new analysis shared with The Hacker News.
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Omi AI, a San Francisco-based AI firm, unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) companion at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2025). Currently available for pre-order, the device can be worn in multiple ways. Once paired with a smartphone (it supports both Android and iOS), it continuously listens to the user and their surroundings. The company aims
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