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Gain peace of mind on your 2025 vacations with the ultimate camera and bug detector

Gain peace of mind on your 2025 vacations with the ultimate camera and bug detector

If you’re going on vacation after the new year and staying in an Airbnb, you might be wondering if your privacy is truly secure. With this hidden camera detector, those worries can be a thing of the past. For only two more days, you can get this privacy gadget on sale for $32.97 (reg. $59). This compact device, trending on TikTok and other social media platforms, is designed to detect hidden cameras, bugs, and GPS trackers, offering you peace of mind wherever you go. No peeping toms here! One of the standout features of this detector is its advanced RF technology. It can identify wireless signals from hidden cameras, audio bugs, and GPS trackers, giving you a comprehensive sweep of any room, whether you’re staying at a hotel or Airbnb rental. The device operates across a wide frequency range, from 1 MHz to 6.5 GHz, ensuring no signal goes undetected. Whether you’re in a hotel, Airbnb, or even your own home, this gadget gives you the peace of mind that you are protected from prying eyes—and ears. The hidden camera …

Ongoing iOS 18 Bug Prevents Photo Edits From Being Saved

Ongoing iOS 18 Bug Prevents Photo Edits From Being Saved

There is an ongoing but infrequent Photos bug that some iPhone users have been experiencing since upgrading to iOS 18. The issue occurs when attempting to save edits on an image, with users seeing the following message: “There was an error saving this photo. Please try again later.” As the message suggests, edits are not able to be saved, and hitting “Cancel” and discarding changes is the only way to get out of the editing interface. A lot of the complaints about the problem have been from users who have an iPhone 16 model, but it also appears to be impacting some older iPhones as well. We’ve run into this bug several times at MacRumors, and it seems to be impacting every version of ‌iOS 18‌ to date. Reports about the bug started in September, and have continued since then. Most recently, several beta testers running iOS 18.2 have reported seeing the popup. It is worth noting that this is an error that some people ran into before ‌iOS 18‌, but it appears to be …

PlayStation bug showed what gamers really think of ads | Kaser Focus

PlayStation bug showed what gamers really think of ads | Kaser Focus

GamesBeat Next is almost here! GB Next is the premier event for product leaders and leadership in the gaming industry. Coming up October 28th and 29th, join fellow leaders and amazing speakers like Matthew Bromberg (CEO Unity), Amy Hennig (Co-President of New Media Skydance Games), Laura Naviaux Sturr (GM Operations Amazon Games), Amir Satvat (Business Development Director Tencent), and so many others. See the full speaker list and register here. Earlier this week, many gamers were shocked to turn on their PlayStation 5 consoles, only to be confronted with a dramatic change to their dashboards: Usually, each game’s icon on the dashboard has a piece of art from that game as a background. Instead, they saw full-screen promotional news posts and advertisements for the game (or sometimes sales in which that game featured) as backgrounds instead. The ads were often outdated or irrelevant to the user — especially given they usually owned the games in question. PlayStation quickly rolled out a fix and assured users this was a bug introduced in a major update, not …

Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug

Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug

In January 2023, they published the initial results of their work, an enormous collection of web vulnerabilities affecting Kia, Honda, Infiniti, Nissan, Acura, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Genesis, BMW, Rolls Royce, and Ferrari—all of which they had reported to the automakers. For at least half a dozen of those companies, the web bugs the group found offered at least some level of control of cars’ connected features, they wrote, just as in their latest Kia hack. Others, they say, allowed unauthorized access to data or the companies’ internal applications. Still others targeted fleet management software for emergency vehicles and could have even prevented those vehicles from starting, they believe—though they didn’t have the means to safely test out that potentially dangerous trick. In June of this year, Curry says, he discovered that Toyota appeared to still have a similar flaw in its web portal that, in combination with a leaked dealer credential he found online, would have allowed remote control of Toyota and Lexus vehicles’ features like tracking, unlocking, honking, and ignition. He reported that vulnerability to …

Pokemon Go’s latest bug brings hilariously large trainer feet to the game

Pokemon Go’s latest bug brings hilariously large trainer feet to the game

Glitches and bugs are nothing new, certainly for live service video games like Pokemon GO. But the bigger the game, the bigger the reaction when things go wrong, and Niantic’s mobile smash hit is no exception. The latest hiccups that players are coming across in the ever-popular AR mobile game are both character and Pokemon models not being the correct size, and not even being in the places they should be. The most comical of the lot when it comes to this glitch is huge feet almost taking over the full in-game screen. These avatars are going out of control!byu/RefreshOP inpokemongo This image of the Godzilla-esque Pokemon Trailer feet from RefreshOP is making the rounds of Reddit as the prime example of when avatar models go wrong. Imagine taking these on in a battle – it would be the most confusing and awkward encounter to date… Some Reddit users have found the funny side to these bugs, even if they are making progress difficult. User Aaegis39 replied to the image stating that the game “is not …

Yum Bug: The London restaurant ditching beef for bugs

Yum Bug: The London restaurant ditching beef for bugs

Sign up to IndyEat’s free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Sorry, did you say worm?” I practically splutter at Leonard Tanyag, executive chef at omakase bar Juno. He’s just casually mentioned that the piece of tuna nigiri in my mouth is garnished with ground mezcal-cured agave worm. Like it’s no more interesting than regular seasoning. I thought it took a lot for an ingredient to surprise me these days – clearly, I was wrong. The poster child of fussy eating growing up – I’d pick onions out of everything and performatively retch at the sight of broccoli – now I’m eating a dehydrated, powdered version of one of my least favourite creatures. My reformed eating habits have long been a source of amusement for my parents, siblings and long-suffering friends. But still, worms are on another level of the omnivore scale. In my defence, it wasn’t in the press release; in fact, not much at all is mentioned about the bug offering at …

Bug Zappers Are Swarming on Amazon

Bug Zappers Are Swarming on Amazon

Call it a bug zapper, not a feature. Data from Fakespot, a service owned by Mozilla that helps consumers spot fake reviews and scams on shopping sites, shows a bizarre rise in the number of listings for bug zappers on Amazon over the past three years. At the same time, Fakespot has logged an increase in the number of negative or unreliable reviews for this product category. Saoud Khalifah, founder and director of Fakespot at Mozilla, says bug zappers are just one example of the convergence of recent trends in ecommerce: a growing number of listings from third-party sellers on Amazon.com, more merchants seeking to sell low-cost products with high margins, and generative AI tools making it easier for sellers to churn out questionable marketing copy and reviews. “Right now everyone has a different kind of determination of what ‘fake’ means,” Khalifah says. “In the book category, for example, you might see an author ask their friends and family to leave reviews and some people might see that as disingenuous. But when you look at …

Red Dead Redemption Online update bug brings flying horses

Red Dead Redemption Online update bug brings flying horses

Rockstar Game’s acclaimed western game Red Dead Online is encountering a flying horse glitch in the game after a recent patch Patch 1.35 dropped to fix several quality-of-life issues that loyal fans of the game fed back to developers. Coincidentally, one new issue that would spawn out of the update couldn’t be predicted by anyone, but flying horses is a new one for all players of the old-timey shooter. Red Dead Online flying horses Initially reported via social media by user @OnlyPVPCat, the issue would show a player riding a horse over what looks like St Denis. The city is a landmark part of the game and a popular spot for online players picking up guns, and ammo. New bug discovered in Red Dead Online after resent patch – flying horses (on consoles, not PC!). It’s the funniest thing that ever happened to this game, but still I hope Rockstar will fix it asap or flying griefers will be in every lobby ???? pic.twitter.com/VIwhbgE46T — OnlyPVPCat (@OnlyPVPCat) March 25, 2024 The rider is in the …

Researchers find unfixable bug in Apple M Silicon computers

Researchers find unfixable bug in Apple M Silicon computers

Researchers have identified a critical vulnerability in Apple’s M1, M2, and M3 silicon chipsets. This flaw is inherent to the silicon design of the CPU, making it unpatchable through conventional software updates. Although the good news is, the vulnerability requires local access to the computer, meaning an attacker must have physical access to your Apple MacBook or iMac computer to exploit it. The bug, named “Go Fetch” involves side-channel cache-based memory attacks, which have been an area of concern for the past decade. Let’s learn a little more about this unfixable bug in Apple M Silicon computers. Go Fetch is a side-channel attack that targets the cache memory system, a crucial component in all CPU processes. It’s a type of security issue that’s been around for over a decade, yet it remains a significant threat. The bug allows an unauthorized process to sneak a peek at data from another process, potentially exposing sensitive information like cryptographic keys. This could lead to compromised encrypted communications and data, a serious breach of privacy and security. At the …

Apple Releases macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 With Fix for USB Hub Bug

Apple Releases macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 With Fix for USB Hub Bug

Apple today released macOS Sonoma 14.4.1, a minor update for the ‌macOS Sonoma‌ operating system that launched last September. ‌macOS Sonoma‌ 14.4.1 comes three weeks after ‌macOS Sonoma‌ 14.4. The ‌‌‌‌‌macOS Sonoma‌‌‌ 14.4‌.1 update can be downloaded for free on all eligible Macs using the Software Update section of System Settings. There’s also a macOS 13.6.6 release for those who are still running macOS Ventura. According to Apple’s release notes, the ‌macOS Sonoma‌ 14.4.1 update fixes an issue that could cause USB hubs connected to external displays not to be recognized. It also addresses an issue that could cause apps with Java to quit unexpectedly, and it fixes an issue that could cause Audio Unit plug-ins for professional music apps not to open. All three of these bugs are notable issues that Mac users have been complaining about since the launch of macOS 14.4. Oracle warned users about the Java issue last week, letting customers know that Apple silicon Mac users relying on Java should hold off on updating to macOS 14.4 if possible, and …