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Jsaux rode the Steam Deck to escape the Amazon jungle The accessory maker Jsaux, pronounced JAY-saw, has become synonymous with Valve’s Steam Deck gaming handheld. Its docking stations are dwarfed in number and options by the myriad docking docks that the company sells. If it hadn’t been for the Steam Deck, Jsux would have remained…

Remote Code Execution in Gentoo Soko through Critical SQL Injection Flaws SQL Injection Vulnerabilities Discovered Insecurely exploiting SQL Injection vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Go software module that powers Gentoo’s Soko search engine. The two issues, which were discovered in the search feature of Soko, have been collectively tracked as CVE-2023-28424. Earlier this year,…

Waze is laying off employees at Google According to reports, Google is laying off employees at Waze. The company is moving the popular traffic navigation app over to Google’s ads system, which will mean cuts to positions in sales, marketing, operations and analytics. CNBC has asked Bourdeau for details about how many employees will be…

Google has reportedly abandoned its Project Iris augmented reality glasses. In January, we revealed that Google was working on an AR headset. Called Project Iris, it would have been the company’s bet against the likes of Meta and Apple. Now, Business Insider is reporting that the company has killed off the project. Project Iris was…

ChatGPT on iOS now includes Bing built-in In the latest update to the ChatGPT app, OpenAI says subscribers who pay for the Plus plan get up-to-date information from the web. That includes information pulled from Bing, which is the default search engine for the app. The free version of the app will only be able…

The best Prime Day deals on Amazon devices so far Once again, Amazon is throwing a Prime Day event on July 11th and July 12th. The deals are already starting to trickle in. As an Amazon event, naturally, some of the first deals are on Amazon devices. It’s that time of year again. Amazon is…

Google is updating the Android robot’s look, and you may have already seen it This one’s for you, 9to5Google. Looks like Google is going to be refreshing the way the Android robot logo and wordmark look, starting today. The most obvious redesign is happening to the Android head, which appears in 3D in official Google…

Apple warns proposed UK law would undermine encryption Apple has become the latest company to express concerns about the provisions in the UK’s Online Safety Bill relating to end-to-end encryption. Earlier this week, The Guardian reported that Apple had announced its support of the bill, arguing that it would provide critical protection for the privacy…

Meta launches expansive new parental controls for Instagram and Messenger On Tuesday, the company announced that it’s rolling out parental controls for both Messenger and Instagram. For Messenger, parents will now receive a prompt when their children block someone. And on Instagram, parents can expect similar updates. The company is also trying out a new…

New Mockingjay Process Injection Technique Could Let Malware Evade Detection A new process injection technique called Mockingjay could be exploited by attackers to bypass security solutions and execute malicious code on compromised systems. Process injection is an attack technique that allows adversaries to inject code into processes in order to evade process-based defenses and elevate…