We don’t often review books at TechCrunch, let alone fiction, but sometimes a work comes along that is just so carefully tuned to the ecosystem we cover that it justifies a quick post. And so here we have “Exadelic,” a sci-fi novel by erstwhile TC contributor Jon Evans, who does his level best to match…
Sep 11, 2023THNMalware / Social Media A new phishing attack is leveraging Facebook Messenger to propagate messages with malicious attachments from a “swarm of fake and hijacked personal accounts” with the ultimate goal of taking over the targets’ accounts. “Originating yet again from a Vietnamese-based group, this campaign uses a tiny compressed file attachment that…
The saga of Apple’s attempt to make its own cellular modems seems like it may never end. Earlier this year, the Qualcomm CEO said that it was his assumption that Apple would switch to using 5G chips of its own design beginning sometime in 2024. There were rumors surrounding that statement that the new iPhone…
Refresh 2023-09-11T18:56:51.037Z (Image credit: Qualcomm) You probably don’t think much about the modem inside your iPhone, but let me assure you, some people think about it a lot — especially at Apple, which reportedly wants to start building modems of its own to use in its phones. We already figured out that wasn’t going to…
The Walt Disney Company has agreed to pay $9.5 million in a class-action lawsuit in California after Disneyland Magic Key pass holders claimed that they were unable to use their passes on certain days despite being told that there would be no blackout dates. The suit, filed by Jenale Nielsen in the Supreme Court of…
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Square said there was “no evidence” a cyberattack caused an outage that left customers and small businesses unable to use the payment giant’s technology on Thursday through early-Friday. The payments technology giant said in a post-mortem of the daylong outage that the issue was caused by a DNS issue. DNS, or domain name system, is…
With the growing reliance on web applications and digital platforms, the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) has become increasingly popular. If you aren’t familiar with the term, APIs allow applications to communicate with each other and they play a vital role in modern software development. However, the rise of API use has also led…
Beta testers have been exploring the features in iOS 17 for some time now, having raced to install it on their iPhones. Testing the beta of iOS 17 does give you a glimpse of what is to come when the final version of iOS 17 arrives, but installing a beta can have more risks than…
The Apple September Event is expected to be packed full of new Apple products, including the iPhone 15 lineup and the Apple Watch Series 9. But it might also end up being the curtain call for older models — including the small-screen iPhone 13 mini. According to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, iPhone 13 mini stock…
