In fact, just last month, Motorola announced and began taking orders for the Motorola Edge Plus which carries the same $999 price tag as Apple’s iPhone 13 Pro. With three rear-facing cameras, a 60MP front-facing camera and a list of staple features for premium Android handsets, how does the Moto Edge Plus stack up as a flagship phone? Spoiler alert: Not that great. Design The Edge Plus looks and feels like a high-end smartphone....

In Feb. 2022, Motorola also updated the base model Moto G Stylus, followed by announcing the Moto G Stylus 5G near the end of April. The $500 smartphone combines what’s made the standard G Stylus appealing – the affordable price tag – with better connectivity, an improved display, and better performance. I’ve been testing the Moto G Stylus 5G and have found it to be a capable phone that delivers on all of its promises....

The launch is part of Motorola’s strategy to cover lower price points and offer key features to compete. The Moto G Power is aimed at Apple’s iPhone SE and Samsung A12. “Each product has a targeted demographic in mind and consumers looking for extra value,” said Doug Michau, executive director of Motorola’s North America business development. Motorola’s strategy has paid off even though it doesn’t have a definitive flagship with a high price point....

Also: The best Motorola phones you can buy Compared to its predecessor, the display now ramps up to a smoother 120Hz (previously 90Hz), base storage has been upgraded to 128GB (from 64GB), and the new MediaTek Dimensity 930 processor gives Motorola enough power to stick a “5G” label behind the product’s name. Just don’t expect mmWave speeds; the Moto only supports sub-6GHz 5G, which is a minor step above 4G LTE....

Built-In VPN for Windows 10 and Android The app for Mozilla’s VPN-service, Firefox Private Network, is available in the Play Store. For the time being, only US users can download the app. After signing up for the beta version, users will be invited to trial it on a limited basis. Others can join the wait list. They will get notified when the app is launched in their country. The VPN can be installed on Windows 10 or Android devices, with other platforms coming soon....

The organizations used Advisen’s Cyber Loss Database to examine incidents since 2008. Almost 900 multi-party breach incidents have been observed since 2008, and 147 newly uncovered ripples were observed across the entire data set, with 108 occurring in the last three years. The Advisen Cyber Loss Database has over 103,000 cyber events collected from publicly verifiable sources and was used extensively for the report. Since 2008, more than 2,726 incidents in the Advisen database involve more than one organization....

Long story short, I managed to convince my loving and adventurous wife to take a temporary leave of her senses. I’m writing this from the aft cabin of Macondo, our ketch-rigged Pearson 424, which was laid in Rhode Island and launched in 1982 and of which we’re the third owner. We’re berthed in Marina Del Rey just outside Los Angeles, where we live, work, and – for kids during the pandemic – do part of our schooling....

In a phrase, “that’s bad, that’s really bad.” As Bharat Jogi, Qualys’s senior manager of Vulnerabilities and Signatures, wrote, “Given the breadth of the attack surface for this vulnerability, Qualys recommends users apply patches for this vulnerability immediately.” You can say that again. Systemd is used in almost all modern Linux distributions. This particular security hole arrived in the systemd code in April 2015. It works by enabling attackers to misuse the alloca() function in a way that would result in memory corruption....

NCSC Shuts Down More than 300,000 Links The NCSC stated last Friday that it had taken down more than 300,000 links to investment scams in the past four months. Celebrity endorsement investment scams usually rely on fake online news articles containing bogus investment opportunities purportedly endorsed by local celebrities. In the UK, celebrities such as Sir Richard Branson and Ed Sheeran have been used for these scams. Whereas in Australia, Mel Gibson and Chris Hemsworth have been exploited to dispense the fake investment advice....

It can be challenging for rural farmers to visit a John Deere repair center; meanwhile, local independent repair shops can often do the same work. The new memorandum of understanding between the American Farm Bureau Federation and John Deere will make it less difficult to service farmers’ heavy machinery. “It addresses a long-running issue for farmers and ranchers when it comes to accessing tools, information, and resources while protecting John Deere’s intellectual property rights and ensuring equipment safety,” AFBF president Zippy Duvall said, according to the BBC....

This build is for insiders on Windows 11, version 22H2, which is tipped for a mainstream release on September 20 – a week after that month’s Patch Tuesday (which falls on the second Tuesday of each month). The Preview Channel is the most stable preview behind the Dev Channel and Beta Channel. The update contains the same new features Microsoft has rolled out in recent Windows 11 and Windows 10 previews, such as Defender for Endpoint’s enhanced ransomware protections, and now compressing a file regardless of its size for those with Server Message Block (SMB) compression enabled....

Increase in Unauthorized Access to Nintendo Accounts Reports of unauthorized access to Nintendo accounts increased over the weekend. Several users replied to threads on Twitter, Reddit and Resetera. In their posts they revealed that their accounts had also been hacked. It seems that third parties have logged in to other users accounts from locations around the globe, such as Russia, Indonesia, Poland, the US and China. Credit Card Details Used to Buy Digital Goods To make things worse, it appears that third parties are also using linked credit card and PayPal details....

A group of 29 areas that represent a high risk in terms of vulnerability, abuse of power, mismanagement, or need for drastic changes was analyzed in the report, which is in its first edition. Regarding cybersecurity, the report has found that the federal government setup is “active, but inadequate”. According to the report, the federal administration cannot respond to and treat cybersecurity incidents adequately, and there are several vulnerabilities in both information security and cybersecurity across most central government bodies....

Android Go has been around since Android Oreo in December 2017, offering a lightweight version of Android for entry-level devices with 2GB or less of RAM. The 200 million user base is small compared to the three billion Android users worldwide, but it is nonetheless a significant number. This release of Go is based on the recently released Android 12 and promises to launch apps 30% faster with smoother animations....

Speaking at the 2021 digital.NSW event, Office of the NSW Building Commissioner digital director Yin Man explained how the state government has worked with KPMG, Microsoft, Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Western Sydney University, and Mirvac to build what is being referred to as a trustworthy index, within the state government’s building assurance solution. The solution, based on ASX’s blockchain technology, has been designed to track a building’s provenance – from the materials that are used, the drawings of the building, and people involved in the construction – to enable the building industry, current and prospective owners, regulators, and insurers to compare and assess the trustworthiness of different buildings....

The plan to build a new semiconductor hub comes off the back of a recommendation by the state’s Chief Scientist and Engineer Office after it conducted a study into the country’s semiconductor scene. In the study, Sydney Nano Institute deputy director James Rabeau said there are currently no major Australian companies whose core business is in semiconductor design or development. With the semiconductor industry in Australia being quite limited, a government representative clarified that the goal behind creating the semiconductor hub was not to create a new major semiconductor fab as there are “significant capital and non-capital barriers in Australia”....

The two companies announced today, at the VMware Explore 2022 conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, a new data center platform they claim is designed for the era of AI, making standard a list of disparate functions – state-of-the-art AI modeling, AI inference, data science, and zero-trust security capabilities – in servers globally. The package combines Dell’s latest PowerEdge servers with Nvidia BlueField-2 data processing units (DPUs), GPUs, and AI enterprise software, all optimized for VMware’s new vSphere 8 enterprise workload platform, which also was introduced at the Aug....

Nvidia rolled out Omniverse in open beta last December – nearly a year before Facebook committed to the concept of a “metaverse” by renaming itself Meta. Omniverse gives 3D designers a shared virtual world from which they can collaborate across different software applications and from different geographic locations. Since the December launch, Omniverse has been downloaded by more than 70,000 individual creators. Professionals are also using it at over 700 companies, including BMW Group, CannonDesign, Epigraph, Ericsson, architectural firms HKS and KPF, Lockheed Martin and Sony Pictures Animation....

For a phone that starts at $649, there are some notable compromises that you should be aware of, especially when comparing the 10T to the company’s flagship, the OnePlus 10 Pro. But the 10T is a serious competitor in the Qualcomm Snapdragon flagship processor market, and OnePlus believes that it’s found the middle ground between power, speed, and value. Hardware Latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ processorNo Alert SliderThree rear cameras...

With the OnePlus 11, OnePlus has clearly done some reflecting, setting its high-end market aspirations to the side, digging through playbooks from four to five years ago, and making the call to produce a flagship smartphone for less. The question is: Undercutting the competition with strategic compromises may have worked in the past, but will it work this time? I’ve been testing the OnePlus 11 for the past month and here are my thoughts on what works and what doesn’t....