Apple has squashed a number of lingering bugs in the new iOS 9.0.2 update, released Wednesday, including fixes for iMessage activation problems, issues with iCloud backups, and an ongoing bug with cellular data settings. Apps, notably Podcasts, have also been improved. On the security side of things, there was one security fix, according to the iOS 9.0.2 release notes: a flaw in the lock screen that allowed unauthorized access to photos and contacts, without the user’s passcode....

According to a new support article published on Apple’s website, a very small number of customers with 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pro computers have experienced an issue with the battery not charging past 1%. The company announced that it will reportedly replace the batteries of such affected MacBook Pro units for free. The battery health status on these devices will also indicate “Service Recommended” within the battery menu when users will be running the said macOS Big Sur 11....

The figure is based on unit sales figures of the five devices that Apple cited in the first patent infringement suit that Samsung continued to sell after the verdict was reached over three years ago. As a result, Apple wants to get paid for sales of those devices dating from the day after the first verdict was announced on August 24th 2012, to present. The company took amount of the verdict that each of the five devices was responsible for, and calculated how much it should receive for each additional unit....

With entry level specs, the Aquarius E5 Ubuntu model is a reasonably priced device that comes with a 5-inch, 1280×720 HD display. It is powered by a quad-core MediaTek processor clocked at 1.3GHz coupled with 1GB of RAM. It also comes with 16GB of in-built storage capacity along with a microSD card slot. Further, it has two unlocked SIM card slots and is backed by a 2500mAh battery. Additionally, it has a 13-megapixel camera with dual flash that can shoot 1080p HD video along with a 5-megapixel front-facing camera....

Ars Technica, the technology news and information website has become the latest news organisation to fall prey to hackersHacking or Hijacking? Ars Technica confirms the hack attack The deface page contained a black background color page with white text color reading, Techworm looked at the two Twitter handles mentioned on the defaced page, but surprisingly both handles seems very new and didn’t mention much about the hacking. @nidohax – @metapawd cue the music...

Finding your favorite show on any OTT or streaming site is difficult. Not every show is on these services and you end up scrambling to find them. And when you looked towards ETTV, you could download all of it as torrents. ETTV was a TV torrent group. its torrent site was one of the most visited torrent site that provided movies, web series, web shows and tv shows download using BitTorrent protocol....

Justin Sun, BitTorrent Inc. CEO and TRON founder, made the announcement about the new token in a tweet yesterday. — Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) January 3, 2019 BTT token features native TRC-10 compatibility – the basis for Tron’s own cryptocurrency, TRX – and will be issued by BitTorrent Foundation. It will enable users to exchange tokens to optimize their network speed and attain faster downloads. “We created Launchpad to help entrepreneurs launch their best projects and bring more use cases to the industry,” said Changpeng Zhao (‘CZ’), Binance CEO and Founder....

Element14, the makers of Raspberry Pi have brought out a specially made gaming rig called “PIK3A Gaming Table Mk II,” powered by a Raspberry Pi 3. The new Mk II is a huge improvement over the single player Mk I version which Element14 brought out two years ago, with the first version of Raspberry Pi. The Mk I had a built-in screen but it was cramped for space and made users uncomfortable sitting for a long period....

The report comes from The Game Post, which searches job listings and LinkedIn pages weekly for new clues. The news in question was found when an employee of NetEase who had posted on LinkedIn spilled the beans claiming to have worked on “an unannounced FPS mobile game” with Bungie. While the LinkedIn post doesn’t directly indicate that it is a Destiny game, an anonymous source familiar with NetEase’s development plans confirmed to The Game Post that it was indeed a game set in the Destiny universe, which has been in development for over two years....

The free-to-play mobile game, which is a collaborative effort between publisher Activision and Tencent’s Timi Studio, is an online multiplayer game for PC/console players. The mobile version of Call of Duty will get both zombies mode and a battle royale mode. From Black Ops to Modern Warfare, one can expect popular maps from Nuketown, Crash, and Hijacked, along with the Free for All, Team Deathmatch, Frontline, Search and Destroy, and other gameplay modes, as well as heavy artillery and characters from all the Call of Duty games....

Android M preview 2 update brings a lot of sweet goodies for usersRevamped app drawerDelete screenshot optionNew System UI tuner options:Storage and USB, Memory settingsBugs squashedInstall it! The latest Developer Preview 2 comes with build number MPZ79M for Nexus 5, Nexus 6, and Nexus 9 devices while it comes with build number MPZ79N for the Nexus Player. All compatible Nexus devices running Developer Preview 1 should start getting notifications about the OTA (over-the-air) update in the coming days, though the system or factory images are already available – users are recommended to backup their data before flashing the image....

Now, a team at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that its Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor, has hit a new temperature of reaching 100 million degrees Celsius. The EAST has been dubbed as “artificial sun” since it replicates the process used by the sun to produce energy. It burns at 100 million degrees Celsius, which is over six times hotter than the core of the sun....

Chinese-sponsored hackers infected SLDC with malware According to the various reports, a threat actor from China hacked into at least seven SLDCs all of which are located in Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir. The region is often the talk of the nation as it has been disputed between India, China, and Pakistan ever since World War II ended. The report further states that the hacking threat is known by the name ‘Threat Activity Group 38’....

The new tokens dubbed Private Access Tokens (PATs) will eliminate the need for CAPTCHA across the web. For the unversed, a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a type of security measure known as challenge-response authentication used in computing to determine whether the user is human. PATs provide several benefits, for instance, mobile web experience will be more pleasant and more private than other networks simultaneously for internet users....

Coming to the pricing of the desktop computers, the ‘Ninja Developer Platform Pedestal’ carries a price tag of $4,983 and features a 240GB SATA SSD, a 4TB hard drive, and 96GB of DDR4 memory. The price can easily shoot up to $7,577 but you will be getting a 1.6TB SSD and two 6TB hard drives. You also get a liquid-cooling system that will include multiple PCI-Express 3.0 slots and two gigabit Ethernet ports....

The lawsuit [PDF] also alleges that these car manufacturers deliberately misled consumers by hiding the dangers associated with computer car systems and failing to address subsequent safety concerns. Connected car hacking is a very big problem which was recently brought up by the TV program ’60 Minutes’ episode which shows that hackers could use a laptop to take over total control of a connected car, allowing them to remotely operate everything from the horn to the wipers to the brakes....

It is now learnt that a hacker is trying to sell a database that supposedly contains registration records for voters in all 50 US states, Tech Insider reported. A seller using the pseudonym of ‘DataDirect’ is offering US voters’ registration records on the dark net marketplace “The Real Deal.” The Real Deal, a popular site many cyber criminals use for buying and selling everything from illegal drugs to zero-day software exploits....