Hackers are gonna hack and we’ve got some stories about the latest tricks. There is also a small tool that can provide at least some protection. Big changes at the top of Google. T-Mobile rolls out 5G. Sunning of butts is really a thing? Twitter pauses plan to delete inactive accounts. Facebook allows photos to be moved to Google. These are just a small sampling of this week’s headlines. Click on the headlines below to read the full stories.
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Privacy and Security
- This trojan malware is being used to steal passwords and spread ransomware
- Android: New StrandHogg vulnerability is being exploited in the wild
- Iranian hackers deploy new ZeroCleare data-wiping malware
- FBI warns about snoopy smart TVs spying on you
- EFF warns of ‘one-way mirror’ in the world of corporate online spying
- Your passwords could be on the dark web. Find out now
- Ransomware devastated cities this year. Officials hope to prevent a repeat in 2020
- China resurrects Great Cannon for DDoS attacks on Hong Kong forum
Electronics
- Sega Genesis Mini review: The best retro console for everyone who ignored Nintendo
- This cheap gadget can stop your smartphone or tablet being hacked at an airport, hotel or cafe
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- Apple MacBook Pro 16-Inch: A Film Director’s Perspective
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Software
- iOS 13.2: Every hidden iPhone and iPad feature we can find
- 11 nostalgic games to play on Apple Arcade if you miss your childhood
- 80% of all Android apps are encrypting traffic by default
- Lock down your Gmail account like it’s Fort Knox: Google Advanced Protection Program
- Microsoft’s M365 subscription for consumers now looking like a spring 2020 thing
WordPress
- Using Psychographics to Improve Marketing Techniques
- Do’s and Don’ts of implementing a hamburger menu
- How to build a website for any business: Your step-by-step guide
Design
- Thanksgiving Special: How 10 Famous Artists Would Plate Thanksgiving Dinner
- What Is a Cover Letter? And How Can It Help You Land that Job?
- Dutch Artists Paint Giant Bookcase On An Apartment Building Featuring Residents’ Favorite Books
- Guy Photoshops Tiny Dog to Reflect How Big She Thinks She Is
Technology
- Igloo Says Goodbye To Styrofoam Coolers, Releases Biodegradable Update
- Disney+’s The Mandalorian joins a long list of fake HDR content, analysis finds
- 6 ways tech has improved our world in the last decade
- 2019 is the year tech couldn’t stop screwing up
- Predictions 2020: Edge computing makes the leap
- Google co-founders Page and Brin step down from Alphabet
- With Larry Page and Sergey Brin gone, Google’s ‘open culture’ may be closing
- AWS Graviton2: What it means for Arm in the data center, cloud, enterprise, AWS
- Why I may dump Apple in 2020… and why you should consider it too
- Ring let police view map of video doorbell installations for over a year
- Qualcomm builds a bigger, better in-screen fingerprint reader
- In bizarre space first, a tiny star is consuming a planet four times its size
- NASA solar probe ‘touches’ the sun, uncovers solar wind mysteries
- GM, LG Chem to invest $2.3 billion in EV battery joint venture
- Animal Logic touts cloud computing as democratising the future of animation
- Smart farming: This weed-hunting robot is taking to the fields
- How do you fix slow broadband in busy cities? Create a new network
Phones
- What the heck’s an eSIM? Just the next important phone feature you need to know about
- T-Mobile’s first low-band 5G phones go on preorder ahead of Friday launch
- Samsung starts Android 10 update at a record pace: Only three months late
- T-Mobile Announces 5G Launch to 200 Million Americans
- Motorola One Hyper has a 32-megapixel pop-up selfie camera and big battery for $400
- Pablo Escobar’s brother launches $350 foldable phone
- For foldable phones, cheap and simple could win out
- Qualcomm’s New Chips Will Bring 8K Video and ‘No Limit’ 960fps to Smartphones in 2020
Fun Stories
- Instagram influencers are sunning their naked butts, but should you?
- The first map of Saturn’s mysterious moon Titan reveals labyrinths and lakes
- E.T. reunites with Elliott 37 years after movie in heartwarming TV commercial
- The Rise (and Stall) of the Boba Generation
- The Conservationist Saving India’s Heirloom Rice Varieties
- Movie theater popcorn
- Overshadowed By Popeyes And Chick-fil-A, McDonald’s Tests Another Fried Chicken Sandwich
- Monster black hole that ‘should not exist’ discovered in the Milky Way
- A Wave of Colorful ‘Coral’ Fungi Is Washing Over Wales
- Ana Kai Tangata (Cannibal Cave)
- The Irishman: De-aging De Niro was a waste of money
- America’s First Banned Book Really Ticked Off the Plymouth Puritans
- To Defy the United States, Fidel Castro Built the World’s Greatest Ice Cream Parlor
- Inside the Abandoned Babylon That Saddam Hussein Built
- The History and Mystery of Russia’s ‘Valley of Death’
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Social Media
- You can migrate your photos from Facebook to Google next year
- Twitter hits pause on plan to delete inactive accounts
- YouTube CEO defends site’s recommendation system amid scrutiny
- Google back in EU’s antitrust crosshairs
- Instagram still doesn’t age-check kids. That must change.
- Facebook ramps up efforts to prevent discriminatory ad targeting
- Reddit’s monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430M in 2019
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