Economy

February 2, 2022
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New “Starlink Premium” costs $500/month, ships sooner than standard Starlink

Enlarge / Starlink Premium antenna. (credit: Starlink) Starlink has started taking orders for a premium service with a bigger antenna…
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January 31, 2022
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What’s a five-letter word for “acquire”? NYT buys Wordle for “low 7 figures”

Enlarge / The New York Times is buying Wordle. (credit: Wordle) The New York Times announced today that its Games…
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January 28, 2022
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2FA app with 10,000 Google Play downloads loaded well-known banking trojan

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A fake two-factor-authentication app that has been downloaded some 10,000 times from Google Play surreptitiously installed…
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January 28, 2022
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Microsoft fends off record-breaking 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack

Enlarge / Drowning in a sea of data. (credit: Getty Images) As Internet attacks go, data floods designed to knock…
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January 27, 2022
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macOS 12.3 will break cloud-storage features used by Dropbox and OneDrive

Enlarge (credit: Apple) If you’re using either Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive to sync files on a Mac, you’ll want to…
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January 26, 2022
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Android malware can factory reset phones after draining bank accounts

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A banking-fraud trojan that has been targeting Android users for three years has been updated to…
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January 26, 2022
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A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on every major Linux distro

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Linux users on Tuesday got a major dose of bad news—a 12-year-old vulnerability in a system…
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January 25, 2022
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Booby-trapped sites delivered potent new backdoor trojan to macOS users

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have uncovered advanced, never-before-seen macOS malware that was installed using exploits that were almost impossible…
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January 25, 2022
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Starlink preps rugged user terminal that may avoid “thermal shutdown” problem

Enlarge / The current Starlink user terminal. Images of the planned ruggedized terminal aren’t available yet. (credit: Starlink) SpaceX’s Starlink…
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January 24, 2022
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Dark Souls servers taken down following discovery of critical vulnerability

Enlarge (credit: The_Grim_Sleeper) Bandai Namco, publisher of the Dark Souls role-playing game series, has taken down its player-versus-player servers while…
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