Economy

September 27, 2021
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Ford picks Kentucky and Tennessee for $11.4 billion EV investment

Enlarge / A rendering of the BlueOvalSK campus in Glendale, Kentucky. (credit: Ford) On Monday, the Ford Motor Company announced…
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September 27, 2021
111

Researchers use Starlink satellites to pinpoint location, similar to GPS

Enlarge / SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites launches from the Kennedy Space Center on October 6, 2020,…
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September 27, 2021
124

Film studios sue “no logs” VPN provider for $10 million

Enlarge / Your at-home entertainment studio. (credit: Ella Don) Dozens of movie production companies sued LiquidVPN this year over the…
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September 25, 2021
86

He escaped the Dark Web’s biggest bust. Now he’s back

Enlarge / DeSnake is back, with big promises about keeping AlphaBay up and running this time. (credit: Illustration: Elena Lacey…
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September 24, 2021
93

Three iOS 0-days revealed by researcher frustrated with Apple’s bug bounty

Enlarge / Pseudonymous researcher illusionofchaos joins a growing legion of security researchers frustrated with Apple’s slow response and inconsistent policy…
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September 23, 2021
108

Exchange/Outlook autodiscover bug exposed 100,000+ email passwords

Enlarge / If you own the right domain, you can intercept hundreds of thousands of innocent third parties’ email credentials,…
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September 23, 2021
118

Now the chip shortage is being exacerbated by a labor shortage

Enlarge / Don’t expect cheaper chips anytime soon. (credit: Tommy/Getty Images) The semiconductor chip shortage that has so vexed the…
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September 22, 2021
80

Security audit raises severe warnings on Chinese smartphone models

Enlarge / Be sure you know what you’re getting into before buying and using unfamiliarly branded smartphones—especially international models not…
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September 22, 2021
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Canadian VoIP provider hit by DDoS attack, phone calls disrupted

Enlarge (credit: Icons8 Team) Quebec-based provider of telephony services VoIP.ms is facing an aggressive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber…
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September 22, 2021
91

Apple users warned: Clicking this attachment will take over your macOS

Enlarge (credit: Dmitry Chernyshov) A code execution bug in Apple’s macOS allows remote attackers to run arbitrary commands on your…
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