Thursday, November 10, 2022

Experts and Western officials say the Egyptian government's Android app for the COP27 climate summit could help spy on emails, messages, and voice conversations (Politico)

Politico:
Experts and Western officials say the Egyptian government's Android app for the COP27 climate summit could help spy on emails, messages, and voice conversations  —  Western security advisers are warning delegates at the COP27 climate summit not to download the host Egyptian government's …



How to transfer Amazon Pay balance to a bank account

Although it's well known that adding money to your Amazon Pay balance is simple, have you ever wondered how to transfer your Amazon Pay balance to another bank account? Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you out with it: https://ift.tt/zuo71xc

Realme 10 Pro+ teased: Here’s what we know about the upcoming smartphone

Realme is set to unveil three new smartphones – Realme 10 5G, Realme 10 Pro, and 10 Pro+, with the latter being the most premium model of all. For starters, the Realme 10 Pro+ would be the first phone in the company’s number series to come with a curved display. The company gives us some sneak peek into the display and design of the upcoming smartphone as the launch nears. https://ift.tt/rKDqO2Y

OpenSea plans to continue to enforce NFT royalties on its platform, after X2Y2, Magic Eden, and LooksRare altered their NFT royalty structures (Cameron Thompson/CoinDesk)

Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk:
OpenSea plans to continue to enforce NFT royalties on its platform, after X2Y2, Magic Eden, and LooksRare altered their NFT royalty structures  —  “The world is otherwise burning, but we decided this couldn't wait,” a representative from OpenSea told CoinDesk.



Foxconn reports Q3 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$54.8B, net income up 5% YoY to ~$1.2B but below estimates, and warns consumer electronics revenue will fall in Q4 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Foxconn reports Q3 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$54.8B, net income up 5% YoY to ~$1.2B but below estimates, and warns consumer electronics revenue will fall in Q4  —  Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., maker of most of the world's iPhones, warned consumer electronics revenue will fall this quarter …



Realme 10 series specifications leaked ahead of launch

Realme will unveil its upcoming Realme 10 series smartphone in China on November 17. The series is likely to consist of Realme 10 5G, Realme 10 Pro 5G and Realme 10 Pro+. Ahead of the launch, Realme 10 5G and Realme 10 Pro 5G have been listed on the China Telecom website. The listing shows the expected pricing and specifications of the phone. https://ift.tt/QHzjSYL

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Apple is working on a Custom Accessibility Mode for iOS 16.2 beta 2, codenamed Clarity, helping make the iPhone's and the iPad's UI more user-friendly (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Apple is working on a Custom Accessibility Mode for iOS 16.2 beta 2, codenamed Clarity, helping make the iPhone's and the iPad's UI more user-friendly  —  Apple on Tuesday released iOS 16.2 beta 2 to developers as the company gets ready to make the update available to the public in December.



Realme 10 Pro+ display features teased ahead of launch

Realme is gearing up for the launch of Realme Pro+ in China. The Chinese smartphone maker launched the Realme 10 vanilla model globally today (November 9), and now it’s time for Realme 10 Pro+ to debut. https://ift.tt/Ky0HBxT

Sources: TSMC plans to announce a second chipmaking factory north of Phoenix, Arizona, in the coming months, investing roughly $12B and aiming to make 3nm chips (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: TSMC plans to announce a second chipmaking factory north of Phoenix, Arizona, in the coming months, investing roughly $12B and aiming to make 3nm chips  —  New facility would produce cutting edge 3-nanometer semiconductors  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. …



Sam Bankman-Fried's estimated $15.6B fortune has been eviscerated in days by the demise of FTX and Alameda, dropping to ~$1B, the largest one-day collapse ever (Tom Maloney/Bloomberg)

Tom Maloney / Bloomberg:
Sam Bankman-Fried's estimated $15.6B fortune has been eviscerated in days by the demise of FTX and Alameda, dropping to ~$1B, the largest one-day collapse ever  —  Just weeks ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was considered crypto's version of John Pierpont Morgan, willing to throw around his massive fortune to save the industry.



How to rearrange files in Google Drive in proper order

Google Drive is one of the most used storage solutions. You can store any kind of file in the drive and later access it at your convenience. However, there are times when we fail to find a particular file. However, Google Drive offers a feature which will help you to rearrange and reorder your files for a better user experience. https://ift.tt/iKnOxcS

Filings: after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk sold 19.5M Tesla shares, worth almost $4B, between November 4-8; Musk retains a roughly 14% stake in Tesla (Rebecca Elliott/Wall Street Journal)

Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal:
Filings: after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk sold 19.5M Tesla shares, worth almost $4B, between November 4-8; Musk retains a roughly 14% stake in Tesla  —  The 19.5 million shares sold this month follows earlier sales in April and August  —  Elon Musk sold almost $4 billion …



Tuesday, November 8, 2022

An investigation shows TrustCor Systems, used by Chrome, Safari, and Firefox as a root certificate authority, has connections to US intel and law enforcement (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
An investigation shows TrustCor Systems, used by Chrome, Safari, and Firefox as a root certificate authority, has connections to US intel and law enforcement  —  TrustCor Systems vouches for the legitimacy of websites.  But its physical address is a UPS Store in Toronto.



MediaTek flagship Dimensity 9200 chipset launched, brings improved performance and power efficiency

MediaTek has unveiled its latest flagship chipset -- Dimensity 9200 -- with support for both mmWave 5G and sub-6GHz, improved overall performance and power efficiency. Dimensity 9200 is the company’s first smartphone chip to integrate an Arm Cortex X3 core with a clock speed of over 3.0GHz and Arm Immortalis-G715 GPU with a hardware-based ray tracing engine. https://ift.tt/OwAFuR4

As Twitter's problems mount, Elon Musk is on pace to tweet over 750 times in November, or more than 25 times a day, up from around 13 per day in April (Ryan Mac/New York Times)

Ryan Mac / New York Times:
As Twitter's problems mount, Elon Musk is on pace to tweet over 750 times in November, or more than 25 times a day, up from around 13 per day in April  —  The new owner of Twitter has embarked on a tweeting spree to push back, spar and justify his actions.  —  Ryan Mac, who is based in Los Angeles …



Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)

New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...