Monthly Archives: August 2022

Report: Apple tested ads in Apple Maps, as it weighs broader ads push

A new report from Bloomberg indicates Apple may be expanding its advertising business beyond the App Store and other first-party apps like News and Stocks. This plan could see Apple introducing ads into other pre-installed, first-party apps like Apple Maps, where ads have already been explored internally, the report claimed. And later, Apple may roll…

a16z says “WeBack” to WeWork’s Neumann with its biggest check ever

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) seems determined to keep the capital flowing to controversial WeWork founder Adam Neumann. The storied venture firm wrote its largest individual check ever, at $350 million, to Flow, Neumann’s new residential real estate company focused on rentals, the New York Times reported today. The funding round values Flow at over $1 billion,…

Netflix’s ‘I Used to Be Famous’ trailer sees a former pop star making a fresh start

People can get a little obsessed with “stars who used to be famous.” That member of that boy band you used to know? What happened to them? Tabloid coverage and social media conversations can get really brutal and impersonal around these people’s lives, especially if they’ve hit a hard point. And there’s always more to…

‘Orphan: First Kill’ review: A cunning horror prequel with dark laughs and its own sick twist

It’s flat-out preposterous that Orphan has gotten a sequel. Sure, the 2009 horror-thriller about a pint-sized killer thrived at the box office and swiftly earned a reputation among horror fans for its chilling performances — and especially for that absolutely bonkers twist ending. But it’s 13 years later. For starters, how do you bring back…

Hacker claims access to Shanghai Covid app, threatens to sell data on millions of users

A hacker claims to have breached Shanghai’s Covid app and stolen the personal user data found there According to a Reuters report, a cybercriminal going by the name XJP took to the hacker forum Breach Forums, to advertise a database carrying sensitive information on 48.5 million users. The database was taken from “Suishenma”, the Chinese…