Qualcomm-powered Android devices plagued by four rooting flaws
Hundreds of millions of Android devices based on Qualcomm chipsets are likely exposed to at least one of four critical vulnerabilities that allow non-privileged apps to take them over. The four flaws were presented by security researcher Adam Donenfeld from Check Point Software Technologies on Sunday at the Def Con security conference in Las Vegas. They were reported to Qualcomm between February and April, and the chipset maker has since released fixes for the vulnerabilities after classi..>> view originalA single compound could treat 3 parasitic diseases
Scientists have identified a compound that can kill the parasites responsible for three neglected diseases: Chagas disease, leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness. These diseases affect millions of people in Latin America, Asia and Africa, but there are few effective treatments available. A new study, published today in Nature, suggests that a single class of drugs could be used to treat all three. Wellcome-funded researchers at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) have..>> view originalAMD examines if your PC gaming rig can be energy efficient
Traditional gaming PCs have run hot and heavy. But Advanced Micro Devices is studying how to make its current and future graphics processing units (the GPUs that are at the heart of PC gaming machines) run in a more energy-efficient way. In a white paper, AMD said today that its newest GPUs – the Polaris architecture-based Radeon RX 400 Series – achieve up to 2.8 times the energy efficiency from the latest discrete GPU products when compared to AMD graphics chips of only two years ago. To asses..>> view originalPokemon Go update fixes Pokemon catching bugs, introduces new 'Nearby' feature
Pokemon Go players were furious when Niantic ruined their gaming experience a little over a week ago by releasing an update for Android and iPhone that removed the nearby Pokemon tracking feature, but also by making Pokemon catching a lot harder than before. Niantic explained why it removed the tracker and why it killed third-party Pokemon mapping support, and promised to fix the Pokemon catching bug. On Monday night, they followed through. Pokemon Go for iPhone (version 1.3.0) and Android (ver..>> view originalWhy every iPhone 7 spec and rumor points to virtual reality
What if the iPhone 7 Pro is actually the brains of a virtual reality/augmented reality headset?This morning I read my ZDNet colleague Adrian Kingsley-Hughes' column regarding Apple's apparent uncaring attitude about the Android flagship smartphone competition's tech specs, particularly as it pertains to the rumors regarding what parts are going to make their way into the iPhone 7.Essentially, he argues that the company is competing against no one, that they have such unflinching brand loyalty g..>> view originalNASA's new camera makes rocket engines look like Hollywood CGI
NASA has created a camera that can film slow motion footage of booming rocket engines with higher dynamic range than ever before. It’s called the High Dynamic Range Stereo X camera, or HiDyRS-X, and late last week the agency released some of its footage to the public for the first time. The three-minute clip shows the most recent test of one of the boosters for NASA’s upcoming Space Launch System rocket in unprecedented detail. SLS will use two of these 17-story tall solid rocket boosters, each..>> view original'Project Sauron' malware hidden for five years
Image copyright AFP Image caption The malware has been nicknamed Project Sauron after references to JRR Tolkien's dark lord were found in the code A sophisticated form of malware known as Project Sauron went undetected for five years at a string of organisations, according to security researchers.The malware may have been designed by a state-sponsored group.It can disguise itself as benign files and does not operate in predictable ways, making it hard..>> view originalNo Man's Sky travel diary, day one: all alone on an alien planet
No Man’s Sky is an almost impossibly huge game, an entire virtual universe filled with 18 quintillion planets, each one different from the next thanks to the powers of procedural generation. Instead of a typical review, for the next week I’m going to be writing daily dispatches from No Man’s Sky, giving a firsthand account at what the experience is like, and what you can expect if you choose to dive in. Tall, thick, neon-green blades of grass bend and sway in the wind. Nestled among the field i..>> view originalApple Denies iPhone Price Fixing in Russia
Apple Denies iPhone Price Fixing in Russia 7:02 AM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Linkedin Share icons Apple on Tuesday rejected allegations from Russia’s state competition watchdog it may have been involved in fixing prices for iPhones, saying resellers set their own prices. Apple aapl reacted a day after Russia’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) said it had opened a case into the allegations after a consumer had pointed out that identical prices had been set for i..>> view originalHackers hit Oracle's Micros payment systems division
Russian cybercriminals have infiltrated systems at Micros -- an Oracle division that is one of the world's biggest vendors of point-of-sale payment systems for shops and restaurants -- according to an influential security blogger. The hack has affected 700 computer systems at Micros and is thought to have begun with infiltration on a single machine at the company, said Brian Krebs on his Krebs on Security blog on Monday. The incident is worrying for the potential size of the hack and the..>> view original
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