Monthly Archives: August 2022

Twitter whistleblower to testify in Congress over damning security revelations

Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s former security chief-turned-whistleblower. | Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Twitter’s former security chief Peiter “Mudge” Zatko will testify in Congress next month after he went public with damning allegations about the social media company’s security practices and attempts to mislead regulators, the Washington Post reports. Zatko is scheduled…

Patent Filings Roundup: Rare Time Bar Ruling on Merged Entities; VLSI Discloses Structure as Parties Withdraw Joinder Petitions

The back-to-school lull is in full effect this week, with 54 district court patent filings, 88 terminations, and 21 new Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) filings, all inter partes reviews (IPRs), with all filings slightly below average numbers. This week saw more Express Mobile, Inc. institutions at the Board, suggesting that, of the five…

Google says it has pulled over 2,000 personal loan apps from Play Store in India this year

Google says it has pulled over 2,000 personal loan apps from its Play Store in India, and is working to make some changes to its policy at a time when the local central bank is increasingly cracking down on predatory practices. Saikat Mitra, Senior Director and Head of Trust and Safety at Google Asia-Pacific, said at…

Bad news AMD: Intel Core i7-13700K smokes the Ryzen 7 7700X in leaked benchmarks

The upcoming ‘Zen 4’ Ryzen 7 7700X CPU from AMD has seen yet another leak, with prolific processor leaker Extreme Player shifting from his usual focus on Intel chips to reveal the 7700X’s performance in popular benchmarking software Cinebench R20. The leak, which was posted on the Chinese video hosting site BiliBili, shows the Ryzen…

Bose QuietComfort Earbuds 2 leaked, and it’s the design I’ve been waiting for

We’ll get straight to it: German news portal WinFuture has posted 13 good-quality images of the as-yet-unofficial Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II. Should these images prove legit – and they certainly look genuine – the second iteration of the original and best-in-class Bose QuietComfort Earbuds could have plenty shaved off their bulky driver housings, if not their price-tag….