A hot potato: Microsoft has released security updates for just-discovered Codecs Library and Visual Studio exploits. The Codecs Library exploit tagged CVE-2020-17022 is reported to have a vulnerability that allows attackers to take over a system. The ploy works by tricking users into loading modified image files via native apps. An attack targeting memory relay protocols is then launched to take control of the system.

Microsoft has asked users who have installed High Efficiency Video Coding ( HEVC ) to allow system

What just happened? Sandworm, Russia's secretive, yet elite hacking unit is allegedly behind some of the worst cyberattacks in recent memory. Today, the United States Department of Justice charged six Russian intelligence officers believed to be part of this group with launching the "world's most destructive malware." Despite the indictment, it's unlikely these individuals will be brought to face trial.

The Russian intel officers are believed to be apart of the Russian's secretive Sandworm hacking group. Some of the attacks allegedly

Why it matters: Move over Koenigsegg, there’s a new name atop the world’s fastest production car list and it belongs to SSC North America, an American company based out of Richland, Washington, that specializes in the production of high-performance automobiles. There's fast, and then there's fast .

SSC on Monday said its Tuatara (pronounced twa-tar‐ah) hypercar recently broke the record for world’s fastest production vehicle.

The feat took place on the morning of October

In context: Tesla news has been a bit of a mixed bag lately. A few days ago, Tesla refreshed its mass-market Model 3 vehicle with a whole host of spicy upgrades, but shortly after, it made some other controversial changes to its customer-facing sales policies.

For starters, let's talk about Tesla's "no questions asked" seven-day return policy , which was used as a core marketing strategy for quite some time. The guidelines once said that if a customer is unhappy

In a nutshell: The freedom to work from home is feeling like anything but for the majority of tech workers recently surveyed by workplace chat app Blind. Burnout was highest at PayPal, Walmart and Facebook at 90 percent, 82 percent and 81 percent at each company, respectively.

In a survey of more than 3,000 employees at some of the country’s biggest tech firms including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook, a full 68 percent said they feel more burned out

In context: One of the more surprising things discovered during Sony's PlayStation 5 teardown video shown earlier this month was the console's massive heat sink and fan. The intake fan itself is 120mm wide and 45mm thick.

Aside from its titanic size , the cooling system in the PS5 will have software controlling it that Sony says will improve its performance over time based on data collected from individual games. Yasuhiro Ootori, PlayStation 5's chief architect, told Japanese website 4Gamer that

The big picture: TrendForce labeled sanctions against Huawei as having a major impact on the overall memory market. Specifically, politics prompted other smartphone brands to actively stock up on memory products in an effort to grab some of Huawei’s market share. Even still, the momentum was unable to jolt the industry back to a fully recovered state.

Those in the market for some speedy solid-state storage are in luck as pricing is expected to dip to new lows due to continued oversupply in the memory market.

TrendForce revealed in

In context: Machine translation technology has come a long way since its inception. Whereas the likes of Google Translate were once rough, unreliable, and only useful for the most basic translations, nowadays, they can be frighteningly accurate, thanks to the power of AI. However, some archaic translation methods still persist.

For example, over on Facebook, sentences are first translated from a base language to English and then from English to a target language. There are several reasons for this, one of which is the lack of

Bottom line: Assuming there aren’t any hidden charges, AMC’s rate – at least, for older flicks – is pretty reasonable, especially if you have a large family or get a big group of friends together. Still, there's no hiding the fact that this is a temporary patch. Theaters won't be able to persist by bringing in such little revenue long-term.

AMC isn’t going out without a fight. Less than a week after revealing that it could run out of