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RIP Red Envelope: After 25 Years, Netflix is Killing Its DVD Rentals
After some 25 years, Netflix is officially retiring its DVD rental service. The company announced the move in a tweet Tuesday, explaining that its final discs will ship on Sept. 29th:
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Amazon Prime Video Introduces AI-Boosted Dialogue to Select Original Content
Amazon Prime Video announced a new Dialogue Boost feature on Tuesday that will allow viewers to turn up the volume for character dialogue in some movies and TV shows. The feature was originally pitched as a way to assist hard-of-hearing viewers by increasing the actors’ voices and toning down the background noise, but Amazon’s announcement acknowledges…
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NSO Group Targeted Apple’s FindMy and Homekit Features With New Zero-Click Exploits
Israeli digital surveillance for hire giant NSO Group reportedly deployed at least three new attacks last year targeting human rights workers and other members of civil society spread out around the world using Apple devices. All of those “zero-click” exploits, according to new research from The Citizen Lab, could tap NSO into a victim’s device…
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Researchers Find Secondhand Routers Dripping With Corporate Secrets
Let this be a lesson in wiping your hardware before sending it out to a refurbisher: Researchers from the security firm ESET have found that less then half of secondhand enterprise routers in their sample were wiped of internal data, which poses a risk both for the companies that sold these routers and their customers.