Don’t get your hopes up. Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Android
Samsung still hasn’t reversed its decision not to sell the Galaxy Note 5 in Europe, but new reports claim that will finally change in January, five months after the flagship phablet made its debut in the U.S.
It’s probably best you don’t get your hopes up just yet, however.
Siri can be silently put to work against you, thanks to a new hack discovered by French security researchers that allows attackers to transmit orders to the digital assistant via a radio.
The hack also works on Google Now and utilizes the headphone cord as an antenna to convert electromagnetic waves into signals that register in iOS and Android as audio coming from the microphone. José Lopes Esteves and Chaouki Kasmie — the two French researchers that discovered the hack — wrote in their paper that hackers could use the attack to get Siri and Google Now to send the phone’s browser to a malware site, or send spam and phishing messages to friends.
“The sky is the limit here,” says Vincent Strubel, the director of their research group at ANSSI. “Everything you can do through the voice interface you can do remotely and discreetly through electromagnetic waves.”
TouchWiz icon badges be gone! Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android
If you don’t mind using Samsung’s own TouchWiz launcher, but you hate the icon badges that leave your home screen looking messy, you’ll be pleased to know you can disable them. Samsung doesn’t make it easy, but it is possible in just a few steps.
Here’s how.
Here’s one way you can avoid the invite system. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android
Still struggling to get your hands on the OnePlus 2? There is one way you can avoid the dreaded invite system, but it means giving up your brand new Samsung Galaxy.
Smooth curves, wraparound glass, and high-end specifications — the Galaxy S6 Edge has features we desperately need. It’s aesthetic perfection and high-class performance in one super-sized smartphone.
Since everyone deserves a little luxury, we’re giving one sparkling new Galaxy S6 Edge away — no strings attached. But you’ll need to enter quickly, because the giveaway closes tonight!
