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Xiaomi Mi Band 6 review: Greatness on a budget?

(Pocket-lint) – Xiaomi’s expertise when it comes to affordable fitness trackers is no longer a matter for debate. This is the sixth iteration of its impressive Mi Band tracker, after all, and practice does tend to make (closer to) perfect. Best fitness trackers 2021: Top activity bands to buy today We’ve been wearing it for… Read more

Marvell’s New PCIe 5.0 SSD Controllers Have 14 TB/s of Throughput

Home News (Image credit: Marvell) Marvell has introduced the industry’s first SSD controllers for NVMe 1.4b-compliant drives that will feature a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface. The Bravera SC5 controllers are designed primarily for bandwidth and performance-hungry servers used in cloud data centers. They will provide up to 14 TB/s throughput as well as up to… Read more

Nvidia Teases Possible GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 3070 Ti Event For May 31

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia has revealed via its Twitter account the company’s looming GeForce event that will be held on May 31. Although Nvidia didn’t openly say it, the chipmaker is probably taking this opportunity to announce two new Ampere GeForce gaming graphics cards. Computex 2021 will kick off on May 31, which… Read more

Scammy iOS app discovered that refuses to open unless you give it a good review

App developer and scam app hunter Kosta Eleftheriou’s latest discovery is a real doozy, an iOS app that refuses to function before you give it at least a 3-star review in the App Store. Although the UPNP Xtreme app — which claimed to let users stream video to their TVs — now appears to have… Read more

SteelSeries’s new Prime accessories are streamlined for high-level play

SteelSeries has announced the new Prime lineup of high-performance gaming accessories designed alongside esports athletes. They’ve been “designed to win championships,” but they seem fine enough for average people who just take their gaming time seriously, too. There are four new devices, including the wired Arctis Prime headset and three different Prime mice, and they… Read more

Tim Sweeney concludes Epic v. Apple trial by repping fried chicken

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is a man who says what’s on his mind, even if it’ll ruffle a few feathers. And apparently the first thing on his mind, following today’s closing remarks in the Epic v. Apple trial, was chicken dinner. The Epic vs Apple trial has now concluded! I won’t be commenting before the… Read more

Linux 5.13 Release Candidate 3 Fixes 37 Patches From Banned University

(Image credit: Shutterstock) It might be time to put away the popcorn. Phoronix today reported that Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman reverted 37 patches associated with the University of Minnesota (UMN), which he banned from contributing to the kernel in April. This came via a pull request to Linux 5.13 Release Candidate 3 (5.13-rc3) submitted on… Read more

Go read this feature on the 2011 RSA hack that redefined cybersecurity

Wired has published an in-depth feature on the 2011 hack of security company RSA, in which hackers stole the so-called “crown jewels of cybersecurity,” the secret keys forming a “crucial ingredient” of its SecurID two-factor authentication devices. It would go on to “redefine the cybersecurity landscape” with huge implications for not just RSA, but also… Read more

Apple’s new privacy ad imagines Thanos-snapping your stalkers out of existence

Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency feature in iOS 14.5 doesn’t seem to be a difficult concept to grasp; initial estimates suggest as many as 96 percent of US users are leaping at the chance to tell their apps, “No, you can’t track me across the internet.” Now, Apple is taking a victory lap with a… Read more

Apple wants users to trust iOS, but it doesn’t trust iOS users

Apple’s software engineering head Craig Federighi had a tricky task in the Epic v. Apple trial: explaining why the Mac’s security wasn’t good enough for the iPhone. Mac computers have an official Apple App Store, but they also allow downloading software from the internet or a third-party store. Apple has never opened up iOS this… Read more

Here’s Anker’s apology after 712 Eufy customers had camera feeds exposed to strangers

Eufy has put out a statement apologizing for a glitch that occurred two days ago, allowing some Eufy home security camera users to see video from other users’ homes. The statement explains that it happened during a software update, but the company claims it only affected a small number of users: just 712 people across… Read more

Crypto Prices Plummet After Chinese Ban

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Bitcoin is currently down 17% while Ethereum is down 25% after news that China will be banning financial institutions like banks and payment services such as Paypal from offering or processing any crypto services. This also follows news that the United States OCC will be reviewing the crypto currency guidance… Read more

Halide’s iPad camera app is here to recklessly promote tablet photography

One of the best third-party camera apps for iOS, Halide, is coming to the iPad, its developer Lux announced today. The iPhone app has a reputation for the amount of control it gives you over your photographs, and this functionality has been carried over to the iPad along with a redesigned interface that’s optimized for… Read more

AMD Discloses Vulnerabilities in EPYC Processors’ Secure Encrypted Virtualization

AMD disclosed two exploits targeting the Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) feature used by its first-, second-, and third-gen EPYC processors ahead of their presentation at the 15th IEEE Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT’21). The first exploit, CVE-2020-12967, is set to be presented in a paper from researchers at Fraunhofer AISEC and the Technical University of… Read more

Instacart tells entry-level team to return to office, senior managers can stay home

Instacart is shifting to a primarily remote-first workplace, but employees say the company has arbitrarily chosen which teams have to come into the office in a way that hurts junior employees. Workers on the central operations team — which includes logistics and trust and safety — have been told they need to return to the… Read more