Hackers infecting Call of Duty players with new malware, here’s how

Hackers are distributing a worm through Activision’s popular Call of Duty gaming franchise, according to a report by Techcrunch. The malware is believed to be able to spread automatically through online lobbies from one infected player to another. It is thought that hackers have found one or multiple bugs in the game which are being exploited to execute malicious code on other players’ computers. This has prompted Activision to take the game offline while they investigate the issue. https://ift.tt/x6odFgA

The SEC's Paul Munter warns that the accounting firms working with crypto companies could be held liable for misleading public statements made by their clients (Colin Wilhelm/The Block)

Colin Wilhelm / The Block:
The SEC's Paul Munter warns that the accounting firms working with crypto companies could be held liable for misleading public statements made by their clients  —  - The SEC's chief accountant issued a warning to accounting firms that work with crypto clients, saying auditors …

Realme GT 5 name officially confirmed, tipped to launch in August

Realme has announced its flagship smartphone, the Realme GT 5, which will be launched in August 2023 with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. While the Realme GT 5 Pro will be launched towards the end of this year or the first quarter of 2024. The smartphone is expected to have a 6.74-inch OLED panel with a 144Hz refresh rate, a 16-megapixel front camera, and a triple-camera unit on the back. The Realme GT 5 is expected to be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen chipset and offer up to 16GB LPDDR5 X RAM and 1TB UFS 4.0 storage. https://ift.tt/j4flwMp

PUBG releases official collaboration trailer with Street Fighter

PUBG has released a trailer showcasing its collaboration with Street Fighter, which includes character skins, special moves and Street Fighter-themed loot crates. The new features come as part of the game's summer update, which also rewards players with exclusives for in-game events. PUBG also announced a partnership with Dragon Ball Super, which sees characters Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo and Frieza all added to the game. https://ift.tt/WCbmUP7

Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a "Diversion Team" to suppress thousands of complaints (Reuters)

Reuters:
Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a “Diversion Team” to suppress thousands of complaints  —  About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” …

Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures (Srishti Jaswal/Rest of World)

Srishti Jaswal / Rest of World:
Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures  —  As the campaign for the 2024 elections in India goes digital, social media influencers have become a powerful tool to try and shape voter behavior.

Slack experienced an "outage across the app" starting around 5AM ET for about an hour, including issues with sending messages and search (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge:
Slack experienced an “outage across the app” starting around 5AM ET for about an hour, including issues with sending messages and search  —  Slack, the workplace chat app, experienced an outage this morning, with messages failing to send on the service.

Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $4.33B, beating estimates of $4.29B, and inventory rose to 126 days, up from 104 in Q2 2022 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $4.33B, beating estimates of $4.29B, and inventory rose to 126 days, up from 104 in Q2 2022  —  - Revenue revenue rose 13% to $4.33 billion in second quarter  — Inventory rose to 126 days at the end of the quarter

Evan Blass leaks over a dozen official images from Samsung Unpacked, showing the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5, new Galaxy Watch 6, Galaxy Tab S9 tablets, and more (Hadlee Simons/Android Authority)

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority:
Evan Blass leaks over a dozen official images from Samsung Unpacked, showing the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5, new Galaxy Watch 6, Galaxy Tab S9 tablets, and more  —  All we need to know at this stage is pricing and availability details.  —  •  —  TL;DR

Amazon launches 'Your Recalls and Product Safety Alerts' page: Details

Amazon has created a page called "Your Recalls and Product Safety Alerts" that will allow customers to check whether products they have bought have been recalled or have safety alerts. Users will receive a personalised email if a recall or safety alert is issued, along with an alert banner to view their safety alerts page for more information. The new feature will help users navigate to get more information about recalls and view available refund or return options. The page also provides clear and concise information about product recalls and safety alerts. https://ift.tt/AHByxT8

Apple may bring macOS Sonoma's gaming made to iPhone

A new Gaming Mode will come to Mac devices with macOS Sonoma. There are hints in the latest developer beta version of iOS that it may come to iPhones as well. https://ift.tt/pLKE9W7

Netflix rolls out a My Netflix tab on iOS, superseding the Downloads tab to offer downloads, watch lists, reminders, and more; Android gets My Netflix in August (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix rolls out a My Netflix tab on iOS, superseding the Downloads tab to offer downloads, watch lists, reminders, and more; Android gets My Netflix in August  —  Netflix has rolled out a new feature designed to — what else? — get you to stream as much as possible on the service.

Samsung Galaxy F34 5G smartphone to launch in India soon: Here’s what the smartphone will offer

Samsung is set to launch its latest foldable smartphones Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy Z Flip 5 at the Galaxy Unpacked event on July 26. Meanwhile, the company has confirmed it will launch the Galaxy F34 5G with features like an AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate, 50MP camera with no shake feature, and Fun Mode with 16 inbuilt lens effects. Additionally, the phone will run on a 6,000mAh battery that promises up to 2 days of battery backup. The Galaxy Unpacked event will also unveil the Galaxy Watch 6 series and Galaxy Tab S9 series. https://ift.tt/zEke7Ra

Xiaomi plans to focus on 5G phones and reduce its range in India, trying to claw back market share lost to Samsung and other rivals in its second biggest market (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
Xiaomi plans to focus on 5G phones and reduce its range in India, trying to claw back market share lost to Samsung and other rivals in its second biggest market  —  - India is smartphone maker's biggest market after China  — Xiaomi has fallen to No. 4 after once dominating the market

Instagram rolls out creator subscriptions in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK, expanding on support in the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Instagram rolls out creator subscriptions in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK, expanding on support in the US  —  Meta announced today that it's rolling out Instagram subscriptions to all eligible creators in Australia, Brazil, Canada …