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- Samsung is now spreading the Android 12 love to the Galaxy S20 and Note 20 families - PhoneArena
- Amazon Alexa Told a 10-Year-Old Girl to Play With a Live Wall Outlet - Gizmodo
- LastPass says no passwords were compromised following breach scare - The Verge
| Samsung is now spreading the Android 12 love to the Galaxy S20 and Note 20 families - PhoneArena Posted: 28 Dec 2021 08:44 AM PST  While OnePlus has barely managed to stabilize its take on Android 12 for this year's 9-series flagships and companies like Motorola or Sony are yet to roll out a single update based on Google's newest OS build, the Galaxy S20 and Note 20 families are officially joining the One UI 4.0 party as we speak. At the time of this writing, the 5G-enabled Note 20, Note 20 Ultra, S20, S20+, S20 Ultra, and yes, S20 FE are only reported as receiving over-the-air Android 12 goodies in Switzerland, but if common sense and recent history are any indication, Samsung should be able to spread the love across the old continent if not the entire world in a few days tops. The world's number one handset vendor is almost demonstrating a stronger software support commitment than Google itself, working more diligently towards not just keeping its phones secure and up to date but also running smoothly between inherent issues of varying degrees of seriousness. Let's hope that the Galaxy S20 and Note 20 series will not exhibit anything close to the Android 12-based bugs reported by Z Fold 3, Z Flip 3, and S21 users in recent weeks, and if it's not too much to ask, fingers crossed that Samsung will pull off a miraculous last-minute 2021 update for the Galaxy Z Flip 5G as well. |
| Amazon Alexa Told a 10-Year-Old Girl to Play With a Live Wall Outlet - Gizmodo Posted: 28 Dec 2021 07:40 AM PST  You might want to unplug your Amazon Alexa speaker before it has a dangerous influence on your children. Digital assistants are supposed to provide helpful answers and suggestions, but when asked by a 10-year-old girl for a challenge, Amazon's Alexa gave her a potentially lethal response. Instead of suggesting a lighthearted game or physical activity, Alexa told the girl to play with a live wall outlet, as her mom, Kristin Livdahl, described in a Twitter thread. "The challenge is simple," said Alexa. "Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs." These instructions could have caused serious harm had the 10-year-old not known better or if her parent hadn't been around. That's because (as you might have learned as a child), inserting metals that are good conductors into a socket can cause electric shocks or start fires. Amazon responded to Luvdahl's concerned tweet a day later, asking her to reach out directly so it could investigate. The retail giant eventually fixed the issue, telling Indy100: "Customer trust is at the center of everything we do and Alexa is designed to provide accurate, relevant, and helpful information to customers," said an Amazon spokesperson. "As soon as we became aware of this error, we took swift action to fix it." Amazon didn't specify why its digital assistant provided life-threatening instructions to a young girl, but it's important to know that Alexa doesn't pull answers out of thin air. The assistant is only as smart as the internet, and this time, its response was taken from an ourcommunitynews.com post describing a challenge that circulated around social media about a year ago. The so-called "Outlet Challenge" dared easily-influenced teens to insert a coin into a wall outlet. As is so often the case with these brain-dead internet challenges, at least a few people followed the dangerous instructions. It got to a point where the Massachusetts police sent out a warning after two teenagers, who faced arson charges, scorched outlets at their high school. Some folks may wonder why anyone would own Alexa products in the first place given their track record for invading your privacy. Livdahl says she received an Echo as a gift and asked the device for a suggestion after the weather got too cold to continue doing physical challenges from a PE teacher on YouTube. Taking the advice of a friendly Twitter user, Livdahl says she will enable the kids mode on her Echo so she has more control over the satanic speaker. It's troubling that something so dangerous could come from the mouth of a product released by one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Clearly, Amazon's algorithms aren't doing a good enough job of vetting the information they grab from various online sources. And that isn't the case with other personal assistants. When I asked the Google Assistant for a challenge, it presented fun thought exercises that seem to be custom responses rather than something pulled from a random website. Here are a few of Google's challenges.
If privacy concerns weren't enough to persuade you against using Amazon's voice assistant, perhaps its ability to disseminate harmful, even deadly, information will make you pull the plug on Alexa. |
| LastPass says no passwords were compromised following breach scare - The Verge Posted: 28 Dec 2021 03:12 PM PST  LastPass says there's no evidence of a data breach following users' reports that they were notified of unauthorized login attempts, as reported by AppleInsider. The password manager maintains that it was never compromised, and users' accounts haven't been accessed by bad actors.
Reports started cropping up on the Hacker News forum after a LastPass user created a post to highlight the issue. He claims that LastPass warned him of a login attempt from Brazil using his master password. Other users quickly responded to the post, noting that they experienced something similar. As the original poster (@technology_greg) points out in a tweet, some were also alerted of an attempt from Brazil, while other attempts were traced back to different countries. This, understandably, raised concerns that a breach took place. Nikolett Bacso-Albaum, the senior director of LogMeIn Global PR told The Verge that the alerts users received were related "to fairly common bot-related activity," involving malicious attempts to log in to LastPass accounts using email addresses and passwords that bad actors sourced from past breaches of third-party services (i.e. not LastPass). "It's important to note that we do not have any indication that accounts were successfully accessed or that the LastPass service was otherwise compromised by an unauthorized party," Basco-Albaum said. "We regularly monitor for this type of activity and will continue to take steps designed to ensure that LastPass, its users, and their data remain protected and secure." Even if LastPass wasn't actually compromised, it's still a good idea to fortify your account with multifactor authentication, which uses outside sources to verify your identity before you log in to your account. |
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