Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber says there is “no evidence” that any of its users’ private information was compromised in a breach of its internal computer systems, which was discovered Thursday. All of the company’s products, including its ride-hail and Uber Eats food delivery services, are currently “operational,” and law enforcement has…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
The Verge Earlier this week, Google made some serious cuts to its startup incubator Area 120, cutting half of its projects, according to TechCrunch. The purpose of Area 120 was to give Google employees somewhere to experiment or chase their passion projects, with the hope that they could stumble upon the next Big Idea like…
TIFF via Polygon There’s a new Joker movie coming out, but you might not get a chance to see it because copyright is broken. I’m not talking about Joker: Folie à Deux, the officially sanctioned sequel to the Todd Phillips film Joker. I’m talking about The People’s Joker, a crowdfunded Toronto International Film Festival selection…
Enlarge / The Uber ride-sharing app is seen on a mobile phone. (credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Uber employees on Thursday discovered that huge swaths of their internal network had been accessed by someone who announced the feat on the company Slack channel. The intruder, who sent screenshots documenting the breach to The New…
Enlarge / A tin toy robot lying on its side. (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, a few Twitter users discovered how to hijack an automated tweet bot, dedicated to remote jobs, running on the GPT-3 language model by OpenAI. Using a newly discovered technique called a “prompt injection attack,” they redirected the bot to repeat…
Enlarge / 1) Enable the feature on the Chrome “flags” screen, 2) turn on the new setting that appears in “Privacy and security,” and 3) you’ll see this new lock screen when you leave an Incognito session. (credit: Ron Amadeo) Here’s a fun new feature for Chrome for Android: fingerprint-protected Incognito tabs. 9to5Google discovered the…
Enlarge / Nearly every major site warns you about cookies, and it’s a shame they share a moniker with one of life’s great pleasures. (credit: Getty Images) Browser extension I don’t care about cookies does one job and does it well. It automatically removes the annoying-but-mandated “This website uses cookies” notices from websites. People like it, donate…
Enlarge / On the left: iPhone 14. On the right: iPhone 14 Plus. Each shows a configuration of the new always-on lock screen functionality in iOS 16. (credit: Samuel Axon) Republican lawmakers have warned Apple that it will face intense scrutiny from Congress if the California company procures memory chips from a controversial Chinese semiconductor…
While these GPUs were liquidated following 2018 flooding in China, they provide a good visual for the flood of GPUs hitting secondhand markets these days. (credit: Unwire HK) For most of the world, yesterday’s long-awaited Ethereum “Merge”—which took the cryptocurrency from proof-of-work mining to a proof-of-stake model—is notable for cutting Ethereum’s energy consumption by 99.95…
Enlarge (credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon, M.H. Wong, and the OPAL Team) Saturn is an unusual planet in some obvious ways, most notably its extensive ring system. But it’s also strange in some less obvious ways: The rings appear to be far, far younger than the planet, and they stay stably in the plane of…