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What does Apple know? Finally, a tool allows you to download all your personal data

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For the first time, Apple brand customers can access all their data globally. An initiative taken under the RGPD. On the eve of the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Apple is putting online its management tool for its customers. You can get a copy of his data, correct it, disable his account or delete it permanently. Apple offers not only the data that the user stores on iCloud (bookmarks, contacts, notes, emails, photos, videos, etc.), but also those collected by Apple on him, such as his activity on the App Store or the history of AppleCare support. Up to a week to recover everything Once you have selected the data you want, the service then proposes which file size you want to receive: from 1 to 25 GB. If the data exceeds the chosen size, the transfer will be done in several files. Once the request is confirmed, a confirmation e-mail is sent explaining that the process can take up to seven days to collect the data....

Smartphones: These researchers can guess your secret code by filming your eyes

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The movements of the eyes can induce those of the fingers that enter the PIN code or the unlocking pattern. A discrete attack and relatively effective. The next time you enter your PIN or unlock pattern on your smartphone, make sure there is no camera pointing at you. Or wear tinted glasses. Because it is possible to become your secret code from the movements that make your eyes while you tap on your screen. This is what researchers from the universities of Delaware and Arizona have just proved, at the IEEE S & P 2018 conference in San Francisco. They named their attack "EyeTell". Thus, these researchers filmed the eyes of 22 people with a Panasonic HCV7000 camcorder a few meters away, while they entered PIN codes on an iPhone 6s or unlocking schemes on a Nexus 6. The videos were then analyzed by a batteries of image detection and sorting algorithms to deduce the movement of the fingers. The results are rather interesting. PIN codes and patterns could be foun...

Dolby Digital, Atmos or DTS ... what do these audio technologies hide?

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With the multiplication of audio formats, not easy to navigate to make the right choice. 01net.com explains the main ones to make sure you do not go wrong. Be immersed in a match and live the same atmosphere as the stadium? This is certainly what every football lover dreams about in front of his television. If the image participates more and more, including the broadcast of some matches in 4K, the audio is still the poor relation of sports retransmissions. However, we do not buy a TV only to watch football (well, normally). It is therefore good to know what the different formats used for cinema sound mean. Not always easy to cope with the acronyms and logos displayed on the data sheets of the devices or on the pockets of DVDs and Blu-ray discs. These are the latter that will usually give you the most systematic access to multichannel audio formats, with several voices in the front, rear and a subwoofer. Netflix also offers some compatible content, both movies and series. Two...

Nintendo has registered the name N64 ... for the Classic Mini?

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The N64 mark has been filed by Nintendo, implying the imminent arrival of an N64 Classic Mini. The Japanese giant does not intend to stop in his nostalgic recycling. The successor of the NES and SNES Classic Mini is it en route? Why stop because it works? After the NES and the SNES who will be entitled to - a reissue this year - it would be the turn of the Nintendo 64 to be replicated in a miniature version. Last summer, Nintendo put a stylized logo on the controller of its N64. Today, we learn that this is the name "N64", which was spotted by the Japanesenintendo website. Information that sticks with the rumors about the upcoming arrival of some N64 Classic Mini. By launching the Switch Online, Nintendo has been very clear about its old game policy: there will be no virtual console. Only a small handful of games will do us the honor to land on the last machine of the Japanese manufacturer. For nostalgia, Nintendo will continue to turn to the miniature reissue of its...

PlayStation Scuf Vantage: Sony's pro controller to counter the Xbox Elite

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As the PlayStation 4 arrives in its last life cycle, Sony unveils a brand new joystick clearly oriented pro gaming. The modular, modular Scuf accommodates additional buttons. Xbox players have their Elite, those of PlayStation will have the Scuf Vantage. Sony offers a high quality customizable controller, with more buttons than the classic controller: two placed on the side, a new touchpad to better manage audio and four triggers on the back. Easily adjustable, the front panel can be removed to integrate the buttons. Some aesthetic elements can also be integrated on the controller to customize it. A plus for pro players, often attached to equip themselves with accessories that look like them. Scuf is a manufacturer already known for having created, among others, PS4 controllers but it is the very first official creation, authorized and made in partnership with Sony. Of course, the Japanese manufacturer has already been offering pro controllers for some time, but nothing that...

These BMW cars can be attacked and controlled remotely

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Chinese hackers have found 14 flaws in a series of models from the German manufacturer. They would remotely manipulate the internal workings of vehicles. Patches are being deployed. In 2017, the BMW group commissioned security researchers at Tencent Keen Security Lab (TKSL) to test the safety of their cars. A first report of this audit has just been published. The balance is rather crisp. Analyzing for thirteen months four models of the manufacturer (i3 94, X1 sDrive 18Li, 532Li, 730Li), Chinese hackers have found a total of 14 faults. These faults are divided into three internal equipment of these luxury coaches: the entertainment system (NBT Head Unit), the communication system and remote services (Telematic Communication Box, TCB) and the central communication gateway (Central Gateway Module, CGM). Among these faults, six can be exploited remotely, by Bluetooth or GSM waves. The last case is obviously more interesting for the attacker. Based on a false base station and ...

Sony is preparing the PS5 ... in collaboration with AMD?

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As PlayStation 4 begins the last part of its existence, AMD and Sony are preparing the technical platform for the PlayStation 5. With a Ryzen processor at the heart of the future console? With 80 million copies sold in 3 and a half years, the PlayStation 4 is a huge success, but its glory period is behind it. According to a Sony official, the PS4 "is in the final phase" of its life cycle, as reported in a tweet Wall Street Journal reporter Takashi Mochizuki. If the console will continue to be the main launch platform for games for another year or two, it is now to the PlayStation 5 that Sony focuses his attention. And it's still his AMD counterpart who would be in charge in the development of the processor. As noted Phoronix site specializing in news on Linux, a chief engineer at Sony is indeed one of the main contributors to a key software in the compilation of code (LLVM) dedicated to processors AMD Ryzen. Simple rumor? A priori no. Besides the fact that we ca...

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