Tech News – Page 81 – by Arlin Schaffel

Archive Team Races to Save a Billion Imgur Files Before Porn Deletion Apocalypse

Those not closely watching might be wondering: All this effort to save a bunch of porn? Seglegs, in their post on the matter, made it clear that, while there may be adult content in the mix, the real goal is to help save content from online communities like Something Awful and Reddit—non-explicit content that might have been uploaded anonymously and could disrupt large parts of the internet if deleted.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3ew4/archive-team-races-to-save-a-billion-imgur-files-before-porn-deletion-apocalypse

Kuo: Apple ‘Well Prepared’ for Headset Announcement Next Month

Pricing on the headset is expected to begin somewhere around $3,000. Perhaps with that in mind, Apple won't aim it at general consumers to start with, but will instead position it as a device for developers, content creators, and professionals. Apple expects to sell just one headset per day per retail store, and it has told suppliers that it expects sales of seven to 10 million units during the first year of availability.
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/15/kuo-apple-well-prepared-headset-unveiling/

Unity manager publicly states company is ‘out of touch’, is fired within three hours

"A Unity exec just shared that they rent a secondary [apartment] in [San Francisco] to make it easier to be in the office- maybe we should all just do this to make it easier to RTO [return to office]" Due tweeted on May 8. "This company has lost it. Completely out of touch."
https://www.pcgamer.com/unity-manager-publicly-states-company-is-out-of-touch-is-fired-within-three-hours/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR04bhohcRsEHoQEPAq6UI7I6Do797urhj_9kPnBA-dNb0MHimgUYb0LfA0

Apple Is Trying to Compete With Adobe’s Creative Cloud Dominance

To put it all another way, Apple is playing a different game from Adobe. And with a pricing model that makes Final Cut Pro cheaper than a whole month of Apple TV+, it could equip budding creatives that might have flipped for Adobe in the past.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7enxq/apple-is-trying-to-compete-with-adobes-creative-cloud-dominance

Samsung Tries To Sneak In Unwanted Apps With Android Updates

Samsung is using Android updates to attempt to foist unwanted apps on to customers’ smartphones. When customers perform an Android update on their Samsung smartphone – which customers must do to benefit from the latest security updates – they find a notification waiting after the operating system has been installed.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2023/05/09/samsung-tries-to-sneak-in-unwanted-apps-with-android-updates/

WordPress plugin flaw puts ‘millions of websites’ at risk

WordPress users with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin on their website should upgrade after the discovery of a vulnerability in the code that could open up sites and their visitors to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Essentially, it allows someone to run JavaScript within another person's view of a page, allowing the attacker to do things like steal information from the page, perform actions as the user, and so on. That's a big problem if the visitor is a logged-in administrative user, as their account could be hijacked to take over the website.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/08/wordpress_plugin_vulnerability/?td=rt-3a

Speed Trap

“[Google] came to us and said, the internet is broken, ads aren’t loading, blah blah, blah. We want to provide a better user experience to users by coming up with this clean standard,” says one magazine product executive. “My reaction was that the main problem is ads, so why don’t you fix the ads? They said they can’t fix the ads. It’s too hard.”
https://www.theverge.com/23711172/google-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages-search-publishers-lawsuit