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Journalists appear to have fallen prone to a particularly sophisticated digital espionage campaign. According to the Guardian, Citizen Lab has discovered that operators using NSO Group software, nicknamed Kismet, hacked the iPhones of 37 journalists (most from Al Jazeera) using an iMessage vulnerability that had been present for roughly a year. The zero-click attacks left no trace and would have…

Google, in collaboration with NASA, has replaced their homepage logo in the Northern Hemisphere with an animated Doodle celebrating the winter solstice and suggesting that you keep your eyes to the skies for the current “great conjunction” of Saturn and Jupiter. This year, December 21 marks the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and on this longest night of 2020, an incredible…

In lieu of hardware or Play Store credit, the 2020 Google Fi holiday gift will let subscribers vote on how $2 million in donations is dispersed among three charities. A banner at the top of the Google Fi app invites members to “Help us decide where to donate!” Voting is only open to signed-in MVNO customers on a standalone site. This year, we’ve identified three organizations who are doing…

The Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G locked to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon’s network has already received the Android 11-based One UI 3.0 stable update, and now it’s the Note20 Ultra 5G locked to Sprint’s network that’s getting a taste of Samsung’s newest custom Android skin. The vanilla Note20 5G on Sprint’s network is also receiving Android 11 with One UI…