Since Apple launched its iPhone 15 family of smartphones, the Pro and Pro Max models have come under fire for overheating. The issue was first reported to happen while charging and under a heavy workload, but now some tech influencers are pointing to Instagram as the possible culprit.
Tech influencer Marques Brownlee recently pointed out
Source: Hot Hardware – This App Could Be To Blame For iPhone 15’s Overheating Problem
At a time when folks are tying a movie’s runtime as part of their interest in seeing it in the theater, blockbuster tentpoles can sometimes run fairly long. At two hours or more, superhero flicks can run long in the the tooth. So if such a thing matters to you, you’ll be pleased to hear that the upcoming The Marvels ac…
Source: Gizmodo – The Marvels May Be the MCU’s Shortest Film Ever
For the most part, pillows don’t last forever. Even if you wash them regularly, they can still flatten or lose their shape over time. On the other hand, you may have perfectly good pillows that you no longer need.
Source: LifeHacker – The Most Clever Ways to Reuse an Old Pillow
During the third quarter on Phoronix were 689 original Linux/open-source news articles and another 50 Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles. Here’s a look back at what excited Linux enthusiasts this quarter…
Source: Phoronix – Raspberry Pi 5, Steam Deck & New AMD CPUs Dominated Q3
Stemming from reports of several fake crypto apps appearing in Canonical’s Snap Store that aimed to steal user funds, temporary restrictions have been put in place while Canonical investigates the security matter…
Source: Phoronix – Canonical’s Snap Store Hit By Malicious Apps
Wednesday seven U.S. Republican candidates for President held their second debate before the 2024 primary — during which TikTok led to some surprisingly heated attacks against entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy:
Moderator: Mr. Ramaswamy, TikTok is banned on government-issed devices because of its ties to the Chinese government. Yet you joined TikTok at the dinner with boxer and influencer Jake Paul. Should the commander in chief be so easily persuaded by an influencer?
Vivek Ramaswamy: So the answer is, I have a radical idea for the Republican party: we need to win elections. And part of how we win elections is reaching the next generation of young Americans where they are. So when I get into office, I’ve been very clear. Kids under the age of 16 should not be using addictive social media. We’re only going to ever get to declaring independence from China, which I favor, if we actually win. So while the Democrats are running rampant reaching the next generation three-to-one, there’s exactly one person in the Republican party — which talks a big game about reaching young people — and that’s me…. [Scattered applause]
Donald Trump declined to participate in the debate. But his former vice president Mike Pence immediately interrupted to say that “TikTok is controlled by the Chinese communist party.” Continuing criticisms he’d made in an earlier interview, Pence said that TikTok “compromises the privacy of Americans every day.”
Ramaswamy responded “And that is why we will end it once we win this election.”
This immediately drew a strong response from from South Carolina governor Nikki Haley (also a former US ambassador to the UN):
Nikki Haley: This is infuriating, because TikTok is one of the most dangerous social media apps —
Ramaswamy: Yes it is.
Haley: — that we could have. And once you’ve got — honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber for what you say. Because I can’t believe that — here you’ve got a TikTok situation. What they’re doing is these — 150 million people are on TikTok. That means they can get your contacts, they can get your financial information, they can get your emails, they can get —
Ramaswamy: Let me just say —
Haley: — your text messages, they can get all of these things.
Ramaswamy: Hurling — this is important. This is very important for our party —
Haley: China knows exactly what they’re doing.
Ramaswamy: This is very important for our party, and I’m going to say it —
Haley: And what we’ve seen is you’ve gone and you’ve helped China go make medicines in China, not America.
Ramaswamy: Excuse me, excuse me —
Haley: You’re now wanting kids to go and get on this social media that’s dangerous for all of us. You went and you were in business with the Chinese… We can’t trust you. We can’t trust you. We can’t have TikTok in our kids’ lives. We need to ban it. [Loud applause]
Moderator: You have 15 seconds, Mr. Ramaswamy.
Ramaswamy: I think we would be better served as a Republican party if we’re not sitting here hurling personal insults, and actually have a legitimate debate.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Republican Presidential Candidates Criticize TikTok as ‘Dangerous’, ‘Controlled by Communist China’
If you’re considering a new TV and have been waiting for the right deal, Amazon has you covered. This week, there are a number of large TV deals on some of the top models of 2023…
Starting off the lineup today is one of the bigger deals of the bunch, the Samsung 65″ S90C for $1,797.99, or 31% off the regular price. This beast of a set
Source: Hot Hardware – 7 Top TVs Of 2023, OLED, QLED, TCL, Samsung, LG, Sony Up For Deals
Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May played a vital role in the OSIRIS-REx mission that successfully returned a sample of asteroid Bennu. May and his colleague, Claudia Manzoni, created stereoscopic images from the O-Rex data that helped the team locate a safe landing site for sample collection.
The 76-year-old guitar player has a hobby
Source: Hot Hardware – Legendary Queen Guitarist Brian May Helped NASA Return Asteroid Sample To Earth
Creating a bootable USB drive is a cornerstone skill for anyone interested in exploring different operating systems or working in system administration. A bootable USB drive allows a user to boot into a different operating system, independent of the primary OS installed on the machine. This is particularly useful for system recovery, testing new OS builds, or installing a new system altogether.
Source: LXer – The 6 Best Tools to Create a Bootable USB From an ISO in Linux
Apple’s iOS 17 brought a host of new features, including the option to leave video messages on FaceTime. While younger generations typically dread hearing their phones ring and seeing that someone has left a voicemail, Apple’s new video version might be a hit. Now, when you call someone on FaceTime, if there’s no answer you’ll have the option to record and send a video message. Please note: Both you and your recipient must be running iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 to send and receive FaceTime video messages.
Leaving a video message via FaceTime is pretty simple. All you have to do is initiate a FaceTime call like you normally would. This can be done in a few ways but the easiest way would be to go to the FaceTime app.
Once in the app, tap the New FaceTime button, select the contact you’re trying to reach then tap FaceTime at the bottom. If no picks up, you’ll see “[Contact] is Unavailable” and you’ll be presented with two options. You can either call them again or hit Record Video to do just that.
Select Record Video and get ready to shoot your shot. You’ll see an onscreen countdown and then you can record your message.
After you’re done saying what you need to say, you can send it by tapping Send, which looks like a white button circle with a green arrow inside, or you can select Retake.
Apple has also included a Save option, which means you can save the video message you just recorded directly to your Camera Roll. Or if you’d prefer not to send the message at all, you can simply hit Cancel.
But if you do go through with sending your video message, the recipient will be able to view it in the missed call log within their FaceTime app. Once there, they’ll have the option to return your call, watch the video message or save it to their Camera Roll.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/how-to-leave-video-messages-on-facetime-in-ios-17-130032594.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – How to leave video messages on FaceTime in iOS 17
In 2019, animator and illustrator Vivienne Medrano (aka VivziePop) released the pilot for her upcoming animated series Hazbin Hotel. Animation fans took the show fairly well and at time of writing, it’s racked up 90 million views on YouTube. The following year, A24 opted to pick up the pilot for a full-blown show, and…
Source: Gizmodo – Hazbin Hotel Checks In to Prime Video in January
By my count, there are about a million ways to satiate your appetite for retro gaming, be it through emulation on modern hardware or re-releases of old school systems with features adapted for today. Make that a million and one, actually—the current possessor of the Atari brand has teamed up with PLAION to release the Atari 2600+, a doting
Source: Hot Hardware – Atari 2600+ Arrives This November For A Retro Gaming Revival, Preorder Now
An anonymous reader shared this report from Liliputing.com:
Web browsers have had tools that let you translate websites for years. But they typically rely on cloud-based translation services like Google Translate or Microsoft’s Bing Translator. The latest version of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser does things differently. Firefox 118 brings support for Fullpage Translation, which can translate websites entirely in your browser. In other words, everything happens locally on your computer without any data sent to Microsoft, Google, or other companies.
Here’s how it works. Firefox will notice when you visit a website in a supported language that’s different from your default language, and a translate icon will show up in the address bar. Tap that icon and you’ll see a pop-up window that asks what languages you’d like to translate from and to. If the browser doesn’t automatically detect the language of the website you’re visiting, you can set these manually… You can also tap the settings icon in the translation menu and choose to “always translate” or “never translate” a specific language so that you won’t have to manually invoke the translation every time you visit sites in that language.
Firefox is support nine languages so far.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – New in Firefox 118: Private Local, Browser-Based Website Translating
Even if you keep your kitchen relatively clean—wiping down countertops and tables, vacuuming the floor, and keeping the sink area as tidy as possible—grease and grime from regular cooking is going to build up over time. This is especially the case when it comes to surfaces we don’t wipe down on a regular basis, like…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Deep Clean Your Kitchen Cabinets
There are few places in this world where dead things are offered such a promoted place among the living. If I had to arrange my mind to any, my first thought lands on the Catacombes de Paris, the old quarries turned morbid gallery for the shelves of anonymous bones. In that enormous memento mori, the skulls of…
Source: Gizmodo – What Place Does Physical Media Have in Our All-Digital World?
Yesterday the “temporary suspension” of automatic Snap registrations was announced on Canonical’s Snapcraft forum by developer advocate Igor Ljubuncic, after what was described as a “security incident”.
On September 28, 2023, the Snap Store team was notified of a potential security incident. A number of snap users reported several recently published and potentially malicious snaps. As a consequence of these reports, the Snap Store team has immediately taken down these snaps, and they can no longer be searched or installed. Furthermore, the Snap Store team has placed a temporary manual review requirement on all new snap registrations, effectively immediately…
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause our snap publishers and developers. However, we believe it is the most prudent action at this moment. We want to thoroughly investigate this incident without introducing any noise into the system, and more importantly, we want to make sure our users have a safe and trusted experience with the Snap Store. Please bear with us while we conduct our investigation. We will provide a more detailed update in the coming days.
Some background from the Linux blog OMG Ubuntu:
This isn’t the first time the Snap Store has had issues with icky uploads. In 2018 an innocuous-sounding app hid crypto-mining capabilities unbeknownst to users. Not disclosing this in its description rendered it malware (Canonical later clarified to say crypto-miners are allowed so long as they’re disclosed).
In this instance it appears that folks have uploaded apps purporting to be official apps/tools for crypto ledger tool Ledger and these apps were able to get folks backups codes (which people enter thinking it’s legit) and …the bad actors can use that to extract funds.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Canonical’s Snap Store Restricts Uploads Following Possible Security Issue
The “Zero Day Initiative” site has posted a number of advisories (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
describing a number of flaws in the Exim mail server, some of which are
exploitable remotely. These problems, allegedly, were first reported to
the project in June 2022, well over one year ago. There is some
disagreement over the timing of events, with Exim developer Heiko
Schlittermann claiming
that no actual information was received until last May, and an anonymous
ZDI representative disputing
that story.
Either way, the vulnerabilities are now disclosed, but patches are not yet
on offer; Schlittermann said that “Fixes are available in a protected
“, so hopefully that situation will change soon.
repository and are ready to be applied by the distribution
maintainers
Source: LWN.net – Multiple Exim security vulnerabilities disclosed
Get ready for some SuperSize collectibles from Super7, which are available as of today.
Source: Gizmodo – Super7 Debuts New Sesame Street, Pinocchio and Peanuts Figures
The summer season has ended, but spaceflight continues to be hot, with new views of our Moon and Jupiter’s moon Io, the much-anticipated return of an astronaut and an asteroid sample, and important new rocket engine tests, to name just a few of the many moments that captured our attention in September.
Source: Gizmodo – A Look Back at the Best Spaceflight Images From September
THE GNU/Linux operating system was created in the 1980s by communities, for communities (even literal basement dwellers). The operating system became so robust and attractive that a trade group of corporate actors (mostly proprietary) formed malevolent fronts through which to promote toxic waste like Hyper-V and exFAT.
Source: LXer – Community is the Lifeblood of Freedom in the GNU/Linux World