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2022-02-21 18:18:00 New Meizu smartphone copies iPhone 13

Most recently, Meizu introduced the affordable Meizu 10 smartphone, which is priced from $110, offering a modern design and a 5000 mAh battery.

The phone is 9.3mm thick, weighs 201g, has a 3.5mm headphone jack and supports memory cards up to 128GB.

The phone is equipped with a 6.52-inch 720p screen, a 2.0 GHz processor frequency, and a built-in 5000 mAh battery supports 10-watt charging.

It is worth noting that the 48-megapixel camera immediately attracts attention. From the back, it can be confused with the iPhone 13: two lenses are located diagonally in the square block of the main camera. Open / Comment

2022-02-20 18:18:00 Apple pays a record $100,000 to a student who found a way to hack a Mac through a browser

American student Ryan Pickren, who studies cybersecurity, has found a new way to access the Internet accounts of an Apple Mac user, as well as a webcam and other parts of a computer.

As a reward for this, Apple paid him $ 100.5 thousand. The student, who had previously found vulnerabilities in iPhone and Mac cameras, received perhaps the largest payout from Apple in history.

Pickren said the new vulnerability is related to a series of issues with Safari and iCloud that Apple has already fixed. Open / Comment

2022-02-19 18:18:00 Smartphone Realme 9 will receive a 6.5 "screen, a 48-megapixel camera and a 5000 mAh battery

On February 15, the presentation of the Realme 9 series smartphones is expected.

Network sources released images and data on the technical characteristics of the youngest member of the family.

The smartphone has the code designation RMX3388. It is made in a case with dimensions of 162.5 × 74.8 × 8.5 mm.

The display size is about 6.5 inches diagonally. The screen has a small hole for a 16-megapixel selfie camera. Open / Comment

2022-02-18 18:18:00 iPhone SE 2022 for $300 and with 5G support showed on high-quality renderings and on video

Numerous sources say that Apple this year will introduce a new generation of budget smartphone iPhone SE.

It will become more powerful, get 5G support and at the same time will be even cheaper: the basic version, according to the latest rumors, starts at just $300.

That is, the novelty will be $100 cheaper than the iPhone SE. The web already has technical details about this device, and the source tried to create high-quality renders based on all the leaks. Open / Comment

2022-02-17 18:18:00 The publisher of Dark Souls found out about the vulnerabilities of the games in the series back in 2020, but did nothing

Players told VGC that Bandai Namco Entertainment reported a similar (but not yet made public) vulnerability back in early 2020, but the problem has not been resolved since then.

In total, Dark Souls 3 had more than 100 cheats, hacks, and vulnerabilities before the servers were shut down.

Remote code execution can also be used against console players (the console does not even need to be hacked). Open / Comment

2022-02-16 18:18:00 The latest Intel Core i5-1240p processor was much faster than the flagship Core i7-1195G7

Benchmark results for a Lenovo laptop based on the latest Intel Core i5-1240p processor from the Alder Lake family have surfaced on Geekbench.

In a single-threaded test, he earned 1648 points, in a multi-threaded test - 8550 points.

For comparison: the results of the flagship Core i7-1195G7 are 1603 and 5541 points, respectively.

That is, if the single-core performance of these CPUs is approximately the same, then the multi-core performance of the latest Core i5 is much higher than that of the top-end Core i7 of the previous generation. Open / Comment

2022-02-15 18:18:00 Last year, Apple began suing the Israeli company NSO Group, which developed Pegasus spyware to spy on iPhone owners.

Now it became known about the existence of another company called QuaDream, which also sold software for remote hacking of smartphones.

Representatives of the NSO Group immediately stated that the company did not cooperate with QuaDream, however, a spokesman noted that "the cyber intelligence industry continues to grow at a rapid pace around the world."

QuaDream was founded in 2016 and its main smartphone hacking software was an app called Reign. Reuters notes that in 2019 the company offered the ability to hack 50 smartphones a year for $2.2 million + a separate service fee.

QuaDream and NSO Group developed their spyware independently, but both companies used the same ForcedEntry iPhone exploit, so when Apple fixed the vulnerability, both Pegasus and Reign stopped working. Open / Comment

2022-02-14 18:18:00 Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reported that Apple plans to hold a spring presentation of new devices on March 8th. Open / Comment

2022-02-13 18:12:00 Apple has announced a new feature called Tap to Pay, which turns the iPhone into a payment terminal for Apple Pay, ContactLeck, credit and debit cards, and other digital wallets.

The uniqueness of the function lies in the fact that no additional equipment is needed. It will initially start operating in the US later in 2022. Tap to Pay will work on iPhone XS and newer Apple smartphones.

For buyers, the payment process will remain the same – it will be enough to bring your smartphone on iOS or Android, smart watch or bank card with NFC to the seller’s iPhone with the payment terminal function. Open / Comment

2022-02-12 18:12:00 Nintendo has thrown 3,500 strikes to the channel with music from their games - now it is forced to close

Nintendo suddenly flooded the GilvaSunner channel with strikes, of which there were 3,500 in a few days.

The number of complaints from the big "N" turned out to be so large that, under their weight, GilvaSunner is now forced to close his channel.

GilvaSunner has contributed music from Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda, Kirby and other Nintendo games. While YouTube forbids posting copyrighted music even with a link to the original, GilvaSunner has been doing this for over 10 years and hasn't included monetization.

What exactly caused Nintendo to take such drastic measures so suddenly remains a mystery. Open / Comment