Dramatic “Material You” colors arrive to desktop Chrome Canary builds

Pick a wallpaper, and Chrome will automatically color the browser to match. [credit: Ron Amadeo ] It looks like the beginning of Google’s color-changing “Material You” design language is finally coming to Chrome, at least in the canary builds. Redditor Leopeva64-2 spotted new flags in the latest nightly builds that will automatically recolor the Chrome…

Twitter lays off 5K contractors in surprise 2nd wave of cuts, more mods lost

Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto) Twitter already faces a class-action lawsuit from some staff that the company laid off without providing federally required notice. Now, rather than realize the error of its ways, Twitter decided this weekend that its next round of layoffs should come with no notice at all. On Saturday, Platformer’s…

When is a Porsche not a Porsche? When it’s a 2022 Audi RS e-tron GT

Enlarge / Danish racing driver Tom Kristensen leads another pair of Audi RS e-tron GTs through the corkscrew corner at Laguna Seca. (credit: Audi) Call it platform sharing, call it badge engineering, call it what you like—car companies have collaborated with each other to make cars for much of the automobile’s history. Sometimes these link-ups…

A simple Android lock screen bypass bug landed a researcher $70,000

Google has paid out $70,000 to a security researcher for privately reporting an “accidental” security bug that allowed anyone to unlock Google Pixel phones without knowing its passcode. The lock screen bypass bug, tracked as CVE-2022-20465, is described as a local escalation of privilege bug because it allows someone, with the device in their hand,…

Apple faces new lawsuit over its data collection practices in first-party apps, like the App Store

A new lawsuit is taking on Apple’s data collection practices in the wake of a recent report by independent researchers who found Apple was continuing to track consumers in its mobile apps, even when they had explicitly configured their iPhone privacy settings to turn tracking off. In a proposed class action lawsuit, plaintiff Elliot Libman…