In total, the V40 has five different cameras: three on the back, and two on the front, which give its camera system a level of versatility that other phones don’t offer. It’s not only an upgrade in the camera quality, it’s an upgrade in what you can actually capture with your phone’s camera.

Beside the 5 camera gimmick… yeah you heard me “gimmick” I said, the LG V40 introduces a new, larger battery (3,300mAh), solid 6.4″ OLED screen with thinner bezels than both the Note 9 & iPhone Xs Max.

Spec wise it’s got 6GB of RAM, 64GB of storage  and comes with the pretty stock standard SnapDragon 845 CPU.

All in all it looks like a pretty solid effort from LG. The bigger issue is how slow they are with updates, which puts me off a bit.

Source: LG V40 ThinQ review: five cameras to change your perspective – The Verge

The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources.

The Bloomberg Businessweek report claims a tiny chip, smaller than the head of a pencil, was added to hardware manufactured in China by the US owned Super Micro Computer Inc.

The compromised hardware was then installed in systems used by large corporations such as Apple, Amazon and government contractors within the US leaving them open & vulnerable.

Apple & Amazon vehemently deny the report and refute that either of them contacted the FBI when the added chip was discovered.

Whilst Bloomberg have reported there’s no direct evidence that any data has been obtained through the addition of these malicious chips the full extent of exactly what they were doing and what has been extracted because of it may take years to come to light.

Definitely worth the read!

Source: The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies – Bloomberg

On the train or in the air, your music and calls sound spectacular on new Surface Headphones. With intuitive controls and active noise cancellation, listen in comfort and style all day.

Today’s Surface event was chock full of new details and updates on Microsoft’s Surface lineup but beyond making them black it’s largely just a spec bump and not that interesting.

What is interesting is the announcement of a new product for the company: Surface Headphones.

Apparently in development for 3 years the Surface Headphones have been developed to directly compete against the likes of Bose & the current king of the noise-cancelling mountain, Sony.

They have some interesting features akin to Sony such as  touch controls, a solid 15 hours of battery when used wirelessly and an app for customising your sound experience. Where they differ is in the precision control of the noise-cancelling level offering the ability to dial it up or down as much as you like.

Sadly they’re only going to be available in the US leading up to the holiday period and are retailing for US$399 – that’s a good A$600 here so hardly cheap!

The Verge were at the event and have a quick hands-on if you’re interesting in finding out more here.

Source: Meet the New Surface Headphones – The Smarter Way to Listen – Microsoft Surface

On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, our engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts. We’re taking this incredibly seriously and wanted to let everyone know what’s happened and the immediate action we’ve taken to protect people’s security.

Well f#@k. Just a lazy 50 mil. Oops.

The “bug” allows you to nab user’s authenticated token when using Facebook’s “View as” function, simulating how your profile appears to other users.

Once you’ve got it, the authenticated token is your key to the kingdom. You’re automatically authenticated to log into Facebook and any other application you’ve federated your Facebook login to use.

The company has already taken steps to mitigate the breach, forcing affected users to log in once again and refresh their authentication as they scramble to handle the fallout.

Source: Security Update | Facebook Newsroom

Well, “we” aren’t but I (Raj) am.

The PAX Aus schedule was officially released today and you can catch yours truly participating in the “Are the console wars still relevant?” panel starting at 6:30pm on Friday the 26th of October. So if you’re around and got some time to kill come say hi, it’d be great to see you there!

In addition to that, the full schedule is chock-full of amazing panels and sessions that I encourage you to check out!

See you at the end of October!

Source: Schedule | PAX AUS – Melbourne, VIC – Oct 26 – 28, 2018