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Apple attacked, the HTC One, and the ISS - 90 Seconds on The Verge: Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

2013-02-19
it's Thursday februari 19 2013 I'm adrianne jeffries and I have a third degree black belt in subtlety this is 90 seconds on the verge brought to you by motorola Apple is new latest company to fall victim to hacking attacks Cupertino announced today that a small number of Apple employees had their computers compromised thanks to a vulnerability in Java the same Java exploit was used in a Facebook attack disclose last week Twitter the New York Times and The Washington Post have all reported similar incidents with several of them traced back to operatives in China apple is releasing a malware removal tool today but if you're running a Mac or any computer really you might want to think real hard about whether you really need Java there's a new member of the HTC smartphone family and the one is really the one the company announced the new HTC One this morning the Android smartphone features a 4.7 inch 1080p display LTE and runs the latest version of HTC's Sense skin it uses a custom sensor made up of what HTC calls ultrapixels they capture three times as much light as conventional 8 megapixel cameras but limit the resulting images to just for mega pixels in size the phone will be available in March finally even NASA hates software upgrades this morning agency lost communication with the International Space Station while updating the station's flight computers a backup machine took over critical functions while the kinks were ironed out communication was restored a few hours later rule number one never update the operating system on mission-critical machines and those are today's top stories tune in tomorrow for tripping the light fantastic behind John Milton's latest dance craze
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