Ahead of the annual Surface event, new reports have indicated that Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 10X, will be designed to run on dual-screen devices.
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We explain the futuristic new photo processing mode that will be available in the next developer beta of iOS.
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The World Wide Web Consortium helps keep the web an open technology but faces difficulties like Google Chrome dominance.
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European peer-to-peer car rental service Drivy has a new name. It is now called Getaround, which shouldn’t surprise anyone who has been following Drivy’s recent news. Back in April, Getaround announced the acquisition of Drivy for $300 million to expand to Europe. And Drivy is now 100% part of Getaround as the company is unifying its brand across the globe.
While Getaround now operates under a single brand again, there are still two mobile apps — Drivy is called Getaround EU for now. Drivy CEO Paulin Dementhon is now the CEO of Europe for Getaround.
In addition to the new name, Getaround now offers hourly car rentals in Europe just like in the U.S. And that’s about all there’s to know.
Overall, there are 5 million Getaround users and 20,000 cars around the world. The company operates in 300 cities across 8 countries.
While Drivy started as a sort of Airbnb for cars, the company has slowly evolved to focus less on cars owned by regular car owners. The startup introduced a device that lets you lock and unlock the car using a smartphone. It then started partnering with small companies that own tiny fleets of connected cars that they want to list on the platform.
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Chevrolet Bolt EVs and Volts will cost more as of today.
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If the standard M models aren’t enough, park your behind in an M Competition variant instead.
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A lot’s happened in 10 years, and through it all, Porsche sold over 250,000 Panameras.
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Comodo, which bills itself as a “global leader in cybersecurity solutions,” said its forum was hacked.
The admission came in no less than a forum post, which confirmed a hacker exploited a recently disclosed vulnerability in vBulletin, a popular forum software and used by Comodo. The flaw, which requires little skill to exploit, allows an attacker to remotely run malicious code on a vulnerable forum. In this case, the exploit was used to dump the entire user database.
Exploit code was released on September 23. Two days later, vBulletin released patches for the software.
But despite claiming in it disclosure that it takes “security very seriously” and is its “highest priority,” the company didn’t immediately patch its forum software. Four days after the patches were released, its forum was hacked.
According to the disclosure, Comodo said the hackers stole usernames, names and email addresses, and the user’s last IP address used to access the forum. Some social media handles were also stolen in the breach.
Comodo said it has about 245,000 registered forum users.
It’s not the most damaging breach on record but it’s a bruising security lapse for a company that claims to be half-decent at this stuff.
This is Comodo’s second security snafu this year following another breach involving an exposed password, which allowed a security researcher access to the company’s intranet — and access to internal files and documents.
Source: TechCrunch