In brief: Snapchat's advertising business isn't the biggest among social giants, but the company has decided the only way it will allow political ads inside the app is to be the "arbiter of truth" that Facebook refuses to be.

As we get closer to the 2020 election, social giants are facing increased scrutiny over the way they moderate their platforms. For example, everyone is worried about the easy ways Facebook can be weaponized to influence the public towards a certain political outcome by almost anyone

What just happened? Researchers at security testing firm Checkmarx have uncovered several alarming vulnerabilities in the camera apps of multiple Android smartphone vendors including Google and Samsung. They've since been fixed but you'll need to make sure you are running the latest app updates to mitigate your vulnerability.

As Checkmarx Senior Security Researcher Pedro Umbelino explains , the team started their investigation by having a look at the Google Camera app on Pixel 2 XL and Pixel 3 handsets. They found multiple vulnerabilities relating to permission bypass issues which could allow an

Inventive: A Twitch streamer has created a motion controller for the game Jedi: Fallen Order out of an old toy lightsaber and a glove. The materials to make the controllers cost only about $40. While the project was not expensive, it took him quite a while to complete.

Dylan Beck, who goes by the handle " Rudeism " on Twitch, rigged the lightsaber blade with LEDs that come on when you flick it out. He installed an inertial measurement unit (IMU) for detecting swings, which turns

Bottom line: Developer Quantic Dream on Tuesday revealed that futuristic thriller Detroit: Become Human will be heading to the PC next month. If you're into the interactive storytelling genre, this game is certainly worth a look... as are two of Quantic Dream's earlier titles.

The interactive drama is slated to launch in the Epic Games Store on December 12 priced at £29.99, or around $38. Quantic Dream will also put out a playable demo featuring the game’

In context: In the world of enterprise computing, few topics are as hot as hybrid cloud and cloud-native containerized applications. Practically every company that sells to enterprise IT now seems to have an offering and/or an angle that speaks directly to at least one, if not both, of those areas.

Most of the attention, of course, comes from software companies or the software divisions of larger conglomerates because of the critical role that software plays in enabling these technologies. As a company that’s been known

Rumor mill: Sony's most recent quarter might be one of the worst in its history when it comes to selling smartphones, but the company refuses to give up the segment and could be planning to release as many as four flagships next year, if leaks are to be believed.

Sony's smartphone business has been in a steady decline for many years now. Even the company's latest crop of phones like the Xperia 1 and Xperia 5 , have failed to turn the tide as the company managed to sell

In a nutshell: The internet is filled with two things: porn and memes, and Facebook wants in on the latter. The social network has quietly released a meme-creator app called Whale, which it hopes will appeal to younger users.

First reported by The Information , the app was released last week and is only available on the Canadian App Store. It’s the work of Facebook’s New Product Experimentation (NPE) team, which was set up earlier this year to create experimental apps that might not

What just happened? Cybercriminals hitting US city and state governments with ransomware has become increasingly popular in recent times. Now, Louisiana has been targeted—and not for the first time.

In a series of tweets , Governor John Bel Edwards wrote that the state’s cybersecurity team was activated in response to an attempted ransomware attack that was affecting some servers.

On identifying the attack, the Office of Technology Services (OTS) took down state servers as a precaution, which impacted many state agencies’ e-mail, websites