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Fidelity Investments is the latest American company to be hit by a massive data breach. The company is one of the world’s largest asset managers, yet it still can't get its cybersecurity infrastructure together. This incident marks the firm’s second breach in 12 months, occurring in August. While no Fidelity accounts were compromised, personal information was exposed, including Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses.GET SECURITY ALERTS, EXPERT TIPS — SIGN UP FOR KURT’S NEWSLETTER — THE CYBERGUY REPORT HERE Illustration of a hacker on a laptop. (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)What happened?Fidelity Investments reported in a filing with Maine’s attorney general that an unnamed third party accessed information from its systems using two recently established customer accounts. It did not...

Imagine you’re out hiking in a remote area when you suddenly witness a friend take a serious fall. They’re unable to move, and you’re unsure of the extent of their injuries. In the past, you might have had to describe the situation over the phone to emergency services, which could lead to delays in getting the right help.However, with Apple’s new Emergency SOS Live Video feature, you can now share live video footage of the incident directly with first responders. This innovative capability, launched in iOS 18, allows iPhone users to stream video and send recorded media during emergency calls, making it easier and faster to get the help you need.GET SECURITY ALERTS, EXPERT TIPS — SIGN UP FOR KURT’S NEWSLETTER — THE CYBERGUY REPORT HERE Emergency SOS Live Video feature. (Apple)How it wo...

Dans les plaines désertes de Bachmakov, de grands plans de reboisement ont été lancés. On y plante principalement deux types d’arbres, des bouleaux et des sapins, mais les ingénieurs forestiers ont établi un certain nombre de règles quant à leur répartition. A exactement un kilomètre de chaque sapin de la forêt, on doit toujours trouver le même nombre de bouleaux. Et, à exactement un kilomètre de chaque bouleau, on doit également trouver ce même nombre de sapins. La figure ci-dessous présente une forêt de catégorie 2, c’est-à-dire pour laquelle le nombre en question est égal à 2. A ce stade, le mot « forêt » est certes un peu exagéré, puisqu’elle n’est composée que de quatre arbres disposés en losange dont le côté mesure un kilomètre. Vous pouvez effectivement ...

Google plans to resume the Wear OS 5 rollout for older Pixel Watches “later this year,” as previously reported by Droid Life.If the update bricked your watch, there are ways to get it working again. Google’s support site has a bunch of general troubleshooting steps for getting out of a frozen watch, as well as instructions on how to factory reset from Fastboot if you can’t get to the usual settings.If your Pixel Watch is healthy and working, Google also just rolled out a neat new feature that pops a notification on your phone once your watch is fully charged up — and you don’t need Wear OS 5 for that.

According to slides from an MSI presentation published by HardwareLuxx today (via VideoCardz), the new chips may have respectable multicore performance gen-over-gen, with an eight-core 9000X3D outperforming a Ryzen 7 7900X3D by up to 28 percent in Cinebench R23. But they can offer as little as 2 percent gains in Black Myth: Wukong and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, according to MSI’s preliminary testing. And against the vanilla Ryzen 9000 series, MSI found that X3D performance was so close as to practically be the same. MSI does note that “Performance is expected to be better on PR samples and retail chips,” though.At the same CPU frequency, MSI believes Ryzen 9000X3D performance is the same as with non-X3D chips. Image: HardwareLuxxIt’s not clear whether HardwareLuxx broke an embargo or wh...

Team,Our business is in a difficult position, and it is hard to overstate the challenges we face together. Beyond navigating our current environment, restoring our company requires tough decisions and we will have to make structural changes to ensure we can stay competitive and deliver for our customers over the long term.We need to be clear-eyed about the work we face and realistic about the time it will take to achieve key milestones on the path to recovery. We also need to focus our resources on performing and innovating in the areas that are core to who we are, rather than spreading ourselves across too many efforts that can often result in underperformance and underinvestment.With that in mind, today I am sharing some difficult decisions and several program updates: On the 777X pro...

Microsoft is planning to support the streaming of Xbox game libraries next month. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the company is getting ready to test the ability to stream games that you own that aren’t part of the existing Xbox Game Pass library.As part of a long-running project known as Project Lapland inside of Microsoft, the software giant has been readying its Xbox Cloud Gaming servers to be able to support streaming thousands of games. I’m told Microsoft will first test its new Xbox Cloud Gaming streaming capabilities with Xbox Insiders in November, before expanding them to more Xbox users and more games.The Xbox Cloud Gaming expansion comes in the same month Microsoft plans to enable game purchases in its Xbox mobile app for Android in the US. Microso...

Casio has opened preorders for its robotic pet called Moflin that looks like a cross between a hamster and Star Trek’s Tribbles. Unlike Sony’s robot dog Aibo that can follow you around, Moflin is designed to be held and cuddled, and over time, Casio says it will learn who you are and attempt to develop a simulated bond expressed through unique sounds and movements.Originally developed through a collaboration with a Japanese startup called Vanguard Industries, Moflin is now being manufactured and distributed by Casio. It can be preordered for ￥59,400 (around $398 USD) and is expected to be available starting on November 7th. Casio is also offering an optional subscription service called Club Moflin for ￥6,600 (about $44 USD) per year, which gets you a discount on repairs, cleanings, and ...

Valve is now explicitly disclosing that you don’t own the games you buy from its Steam online store. The company has added a note on the payment checkout screen stating that “a purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam,” as reported earlier by Engadget.We confirmed the message appears in the Steam desktop app, but we haven’t seen it in the mobile app yet. Some Steam users noticed the disclosure go live earlier this week and posted their findings on Reddit.My colleague Sean is not actually buying this yet; he says he has to play Persona 3 first. Image: SteamThere’s speculation Valve went live with the new message to get ahead of the law. The law states digital storefronts must not say you can “buy” or “purchase” something unless that something is a license, ...

The Internet Archive will come back within “days” following a cyberattack that brought down the organization’s vast digital library and the Wayback Machine, according to an update from founder Brewster Kahle. It’s been struggling due to a data breach and DDoS attack earlier this week that revealed the email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, and other information associated with more than 31 million unique email addresses.Currently, if you try to access the Internet Archive’s website, you’ll see a notice that says it’s “temporarily” offline. Links to the Wayback Machine also won’t load.“The data is safe. Services are offline as we examine and strengthen them. Sorry, but needed. @internetarchive staff is working hard. Estimated Timeline: days, not weeks,” writes Kahle.A...