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Amazon’s 2022 Fire 7 tablet is 25 percent off for the first time
For the first time since Amazon released the Fire 7 earlier this year, the company has discounted the base model — the one with 16GB of storage and lock screen ads — to $45. You can also get the 32GB variant on sale. After a 19 percent discount, it’s $65 – or just $5 more than what you would pay for the 16GB version normally. Amazon offers the Fire 7 in three colors (Black, Denim and Rose), all of which are included in the company’s current promotion.
The new 2022 model features a handful of small enhancements over its predecessor. The most notable one is the addition of USB-C charging. It also comes with 2GB of RAM (up from 1GB on the previous generation model) and the same 2GHz processor found on the Fire HD 8. Amazon also claims you can get up to 10 hours of battery life from the new model. That said, don’t expect a fast experience from the Fire 7. When she reviewed the tablet earlier this summer, Engadget’s Nicole Lee found it would often hiccup when she would navigate the interface or try to do any multitasking. The 1,024 by 600 screen is also a disappointment. It produces images that look dull and muddy.
For those reasons, the Fire 7 isn’t a great tablet for most people. However, if you can get past its flaws and know what to expect from a tablet that normally costs $65, it’s a decent enough device for reading and surfing the web.
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Man vs. Dish: How one researcher used a $25 homemade device to hack into Elon Musk’s Starlink system
With over 3,000 small satellites in orbit, Elon Musk‘s Starlink has created an excellent fleet orbiting Earth at the moment providing satellite internet access coverage in 36 countries. However, all it took was one Belgian cyber security researcher, a $25 homemade device, and a dream to reveal the first major security flaw in Starlink’s user terminals.
This past Thursday at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Belgian security researcher Lennert Wouters showcased how he hacked into the Starlink internet system using a homemade circuit board or modchip that cost around $25 to develop, WIRED reports.
To do this, WIRED explains, Wouters had to strip down the satellite dish, allowing him to attach a custom modchip using cheap, off-the-shelf parts. Once attached, the homemade printed circuit board launches a fault injection attack that bypasses Starlink’s security system, and allows access to control functions Starlink had intended to keep locked down.
“As an attacker, let’s say you wanted to attack the satellite itself,” Wouters explained to WIRED, “You could try to build your own system that allows you to talk to the satellite, but that’s quite difficult. So if you want to attack the satellites, you would like to go through the user terminal as that likely makes your life easier.”
Starlink’s system is divided into three major parts: The satellites, the gateways sending internet connections, and the user terminals referred to as “Dishy McFlatface” by Musk’s employees — the dishes people can buy, in other words. According to WIRED, Wouters’ research focused on the Dishy McFlatfaces.
Wouters revealed the vulnerability to SpaceX last year and the company paid him through its bug bounty program. Starlink, in response to Wouters’ showcase, published a six-page PDF explaining how it secures its systems along with a firmware update that “makes the attack harder, but not impossible, to execute.”
Since 2018, Starlink has slowly established itself in the industry and has become a vital tool in keeping Ukrainians connected during the Russian invasion. According to Musk in May, Starlink has so far thwarted all cyberattacks coming from Russia.
Humble’s Resident Evil bundle nets you 11 Resi games for £25
With the Netflix Resident Evil series going down like a blood-filled lead balloon, you may be thinking it’s high time you revisited the Resident Evil games to wipe the show from your memory banks. Handily, Humble have a pretty good Resident Evil bundle going on right now, which nets you 11 Resident Evil games – including the excellent Resident Evil 2 Remake and Resident Evil 7 – for a very agreeable £24.70. It runs from now until August 24th, and is raising money in support of charity Direct Relief and their efforts to help the people of Ukraine.
IKEA will install Electrify America’s fast EV chargers at over 25 US stores
You might not have to worry about charging your EV the next time you’re shopping for build-it-yourself furniture. IKEA has struck a deal to bring Electrify America’s fast chargers to more than 25 stores in the US. The rollout will bring over 200 individual chargers to shops in 18 states, including California, Florida, New York, Texas and Washington. They’ll offer charging speeds between 150kW and 350kW, and will serve both customers as well as IKEA’s fleet.
The first chargers will be available near the end of 2022. The companies expect to complete the rollout by the end of 2023.
The IKEA deployment is tiny compared to Electrify America’s overall expansion plans, which should have 1,800 fast charging stations (10,000 chargers) in place across North America by the end of 2025. However, this is still a significant launch. This guarantees reasonably speedy charging for compatible EVs (such as the Ioniq 5 and Taycan) at one of the most popular furniture chains in the country — you can buy that dresser knowing you’ll have the range to carry it home. That could spur EV adoption, not to mention help IKEA support its claims of being eco-friendly.