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  • OnePlus Reports Second Data Breach in Two Years

    OnePlus Reports Second Data Breach in Two Years

    OnePlus is reporting the second breach of customer data in as many years. A member of the security team informed customers of the breach on the company’s support forums.

    According to the statement, some “users’ order information was accessed by an unauthorized party. We can confirm that all payment information, passwords and accounts are safe, but certain users’ name, contact number, email and shipping address may have been exposed. Impacted users may receive spam and phishing emails as a result of this incident.”

    OnePlus says immediate action was taken to stop the intrusion and shore up security, but questions remain. In a related FAQ, the company says the breach occurred last week, but there is no explanation as to why it took a week to make an announcement. Similarly, the company does not definitively say where the breach occurred, although the wording of the announcement and the FAQ seem to indicate it happened via their website rather than through a flaw in their phones. Perhaps most significantly, OnePlus did not return requests by The Verge for information on exactly how many users were impacted.

    The company did say that affected users were notified before the public announcement. If customers have not received any notification, it’s a safe bet their information was not part of the breach.

  • AT&T Launching 5G Network In Conjunction With Galaxy S10 Plus 5G

    AT&T Launching 5G Network In Conjunction With Galaxy S10 Plus 5G

    The Verge is reporting that AT&T is finally ready to launch its 5G network next month. Coinciding with the launch, the company will start selling the Galaxy S10 Plus 5G for $1,300.

    The service will initially only be available in five cities: Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Providence, Rochester and San Diego. Soon after, 10 more cities are slated to be added, including Boston, New York and San Francisco.

    According to The Verge, AT&T’s 5G network will not be the ultra-fast, millimeter wave (mmWave) variety. Instead, AT&T will be using existing, low-band spectrum to deliver 5G at approximately the same speed as LTE-Advanced. The company only says that speeds will be “rapidly evolving from there.” The company is working on fast mmWave 5G, although it is currently only available in parts of 21 cities, with plans to have it in 30 by early 2020.

    The Verge reports that “customers will need to subscribe to either AT&T’s Unlimited Extra or Unlimited Elite plans ($75 or $85 per month for a single line) in order to get 5G. AT&T says it will be offered at no additional charge. 5G data will count toward the unlimited plans’ throttling caps (50GB and 100GB of total data usage) the same way all other data does.”

    With AT&T being the fourth carrier to roll out 5G to customers, it will need to do better than rehashed LTE speeds to remain competitive.

  • The Verge Publisher Vox Media Acquires Re/code

    There’s a lot happening in the world of tech news media. The latest piece of news in the publisher circuit is that Vox Media (The Verge, SB Nation, Polygon, Vox.com, Eater, Racked, Curbed) is acquiring Re/code roughly a year and a half after its launch.

    Re/code was started at the beginning of 2014 after All Things D, led by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, was spun off from The Wall Street Journal. It has operated under a company called Revere Digital, which launched with backing from NBCUniversal News Group and Windsor Media. It also hosted the Code Conference, which happens to be going on right now.

    A post on the Vox Media blog says:

    Re/code will continue to publish at Recode.net and across other platforms. Its coverage areas will complement those of the The Verge, our leading consumer tech lifestyle brand, by focusing particularly on tech business news and analysis.

    Re/code’s renowned tech and business conference division will continue to grow, and we will explore ways to apply Re/code’s leadership in this space to our other media brands over time.

    Re/code will benefit from Vox Media’s infrastructure and resources, and will eventually move on to Chorus, Vox Media’s proprietary platform. The current members of Re/code’s staff will soon be employees of Vox Media.

    Welcome, Kara, Walt, and the Re/code team to Vox Media!

    A post from Siwsher and Mossberg says:

    We want to assure you that this combination is designed to bolster and enrich Re/code, and that we will continue to publish under the same name and leadership, with editorial independence. We will also continue to hold our signature Code conferences, and even add new ones, again with the same core team and the same philosophy.

    Re/code will benefit from joining Vox Media by integrating Vox Media’s various capabilities — including marketing, communications, audience development, sales and production. We will also eventually migrate to Vox Media’s beautiful, powerful and flexible proprietary publishing platform, which will give us new ways to present our stories to you.

    We plan as well to collaborate where appropriate with Vox Media’s current and very successful tech news site, The Verge. While the two sites occasionally overlap, we have focused on the business of tech, while The Verge has focused on covering tech from a lifestyle perspective.

    We are excited that, after only 18 months, we are able to join Vox Media’s great family of sites and gain new resources and colleagues that will help us grow and get better at focusing on what matters most to you, our readers.

    Here’s a video of the two joking and talking about the news followed by Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff talking about it at the conference:

    Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief at The Verge, also wrote a post about welcoming Re/code to Vox Media, how they’ll work together, and how The Verge itself is also growing. He wrote:

    When the opportunity to work more closely with Recode arrived, it made perfect sense: Recode covers the business of technology better than any other publication in the world. Kara and Walt have built a juggernaut of reporting talent and an unparallelled conference series designed for business leaders and executives, and the competition isn’t even close. Bringing Recode into the Vox Media fold means that The Verge can remain focused on being the best mainstream technology and lifestyle site in the world, and Recode can dig even deeper into how the money and business of technology works. Recode will maintain its site and branding, but over time we’ll work hard to find as many ways to work together as possible.

    We are making one change, though: Recode’s tremendous reviews team of Lauren Goode, Katie Boehret, and Bonnie Cha will join the Verge staff, and Walt Mossberg will be writing reviews and columns for both sites. It’s an exciting expansion of our already best-in-the-business tech news and reviews team, and I can’t wait to see what they do with The Verge’s incredible platform and resources.

    And that’s all just the start. We’re also increasing our overall investment in The Verge, and setting the stage to grow even bigger across the multiple platforms our audience finds us on every day. We’ve just hired new entertainment, science, and app reporters, and we are about to begin aggressively hiring transportation reporters. The incredible Verge Video team will double in size over the next few months. And we will continue hiring across The Verge as the year continues. It’s going to be an insane ride.

    As mentioned at the beginning, this is just the latest change in the tech media blogosphere. As reported yesterday, Gigaom, which announced its demise earlier this year, is being relaunched in August after being acquired by Knowingly. The site will continue with its existing domain and content library, but will move forward without the staff who made created it all.

    Other recent and major tech blog news came when Verizon announced its acquisition of AOL, which includes content sites like TechCrunch and Engadget. Those are about to be owned by Verizon.

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  • Google Glass Will Be Available To You This Year

    The Verge has confirmed with Google that a “fully-polished” version of Google Glass will be ready for consumers by the end of the year, that it will cost “less than $1,500,” and that it will be compatible with both Android and iPhone.

    Also, they’ll come in colors like: Shale, Tangerine, Charcoal, Cotton and Sky.

    The Verge Editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky had the opportunity to take the device for a spin, and has written the most in-depth hands-on account of it that we’ve seen so far. And the good news is that he seems sold on the device.

    The Explorer edition, which Google is currently taking applications for with the #ifihadglass contest, comes with a sunglass accessory which can be put on and taken off. As he notes, the device comes apart so you can attach different frames, lending credence to the rumor that Google is working with Warby Parker. One could imagine Google working with a variety of partners.

    If you’re really interested in the Glass experience, you won’t want to miss Topolsky’s piece. Make sure you have a few minutes to spare, because it’s quite long.

    The piece also comes with this video:

  • No Internet, No Problem – But Could You Pull the Plug?

    Taking an indefinite but meaningful vacation from the online world today is, at best, difficult and, at the worst, contrived. The internet isn’t exactly at phase, at least in the microcosmic terms of evolution because now that it’s here it will continue to always be here in one form another for many, many generations. It is here to stay.

    I used to personally think that the internet was a choice, some elective creature comfort that I mostly enjoyed even though there was always this shadow of a nag in the back of my mind that said I should back off, take a few steps away from the internet and go live, at least occasionally, as Wordsworth intended: outside with cool summer grass between my toes and the slow drumming of a river rolling in the ambience.

    But then I came out of my glazed reverie and realized how miserable that sounds (not the grass and river dance, but just not having internet). I don’t want to go back to pre-internet life anymore than I want to go back to using outhouses or traveling via horse and carriage. I’ve made my peace with the amount I use the internet and, for better or worse, I’m not leaving it.

    If at any point in your life you’ve found yourself somewhere on this particular existential spectrum – which if you’re older than 25, I imagine you have – you might take note of Paul Miller. He’s a writer at The Verge and, for the next year, he has declared that he will spend it without the internet. No laptop, no iPad, no Xbox, no smartphone – he’s effectively going off the grid. (Fascinatingly, he is somehow remaining in the employ of The Verge, which makes me deathly curious as to how he talked them into that.)

    Here’s Miller explaining his decision:

    Miller also started up a reddit IAmA page to answer questions and explain a little bit more of the specifics of his decision. Honestly, given this is the last day he’ll be on the internet, in a way I imagine it must sort of feel like his last day at The Verge, so I guess that’s cool that he got to spend most of his last day browsing reddit. There are worse ways to sign off.

    At any rate, good luck to Mr. Miller and may he find what he’s looking for, but not in the U2 Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For way. Watch this space to see if Miller ends up climbing the walls within a week.