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An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld: On Monday, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission killed a plan to allow mobile phone calls during commercial airline flights. Since 2013, the FCC and the Federal Aviation Administration have consid… Continue reading FCC Kills Plan To Allow Mobile Phone Conversations On Flights
There’s a blog post from Google’s Project Zero detailing an attack against Android phones over Wi-Fi. From Ars Technica: The vulnerability resides in a widely used Wi-Fi chipset manufactured by Broadcom and used in both iOS and Android devices. Apple patched the vulnerability with Monday’s release of iOS 10.3.1. "An attacker within range may be able to execute arbitrary code… Continue reading Many Android Phones Vulnerable to Attacks Over Malicious Wi-Fi Networks
drunkdrone quotes a report from International Business Times: Researchers say they have developed a new material that could pave the way for self-repairing smartphones, robots and other electronic devices. Scientists from the American Chemical Society … Continue reading Scientists Invent Smartphone Screen Material That Can Repair Its Own Scratches
According to a report from the Governors Highway Safety Association, the United States saw its largest annual increase in pedestrian fatalities since such record keeping began 40 years ago. “The [association] estimated there were 6,000 pedestrian death… Continue reading Smartphones May Be To Blame For Unprecedented Spike In Pedestrian Deaths, Says Report
“This past week, Microsoft received a new patent for a foldable handset, and once again there are rumors that it is related to the long awaited, mythical Surface Phone,” writes HardOCP, noting Samsung and LG are also rumored to be working on foldable p… Continue reading Is Microsoft Building A Foldable ‘Surface’ Phone?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In new filings, prosecutors told a court in Washington, DC that within the coming weeks, they expect to extract all data from the seized cellphones of more than 100 allegedly violent protesters arr… Continue reading Feds: We’re Pulling Data From 100 Phones Seized During Trump Inauguration
Given the prevalence of smartphones nowadays, Wells Fargo has announced plans to upgrade all 13,000 of its ATMs next week to allow customers to access their money using their cellphones instead of traditional bank cards. Wells Fargo would be the first … Continue reading Wells Fargo: All ATMs Will Take Phone Codes, Not Just Cards
Interesting research: "A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices When it Fails": Abstract: Media Access Control (MAC) address randomization is a privacy technique whereby mobile devices rotate through random hardware addresses in order to prevent observers from singling out their traffic or physical location from other nearby devices. Adoption of this technology, however, has been sporadic and varied… Continue reading Security Vulnerabilities in Mobile MAC Randomization
For those affected by LG’s infamous bootloop issue with the G4 and V10, you might find some joy in this: several (upset) owners of these devices have lodged a proposed class-action lawsuit in a California federal court. They claim that a repeating boot… Continue reading Class-Action Lawsuit Targets LG Over Legendary G4, V10 Bootloop Issues
Jolla released their Android-free mobile Linux OS (Sailfish) on their own smartphones, “but has always intended to offer it to other manufacturers,” according to Silicon. The next Sailfish smartphone was the Inex Aqua Fish, and people with Sony Xperia … Continue reading Jolla Sailfish Will Build A Google-Free Mobile OS For China