Looks like there's some big fat flaws in the NSW digital drivers licence used by over 70% of people over there. According to Dvuln, the app has "several secure design flaws" that allow hacks to "brute force licence pins, access digital licence data, edit and re-encrypt it to display a different licence photo and details". Bizarrely, Service NSW has responded with that they aware of the exploits, but were unable to confirm if they're working on fixing them, simply saying that "this issue is known and does not pose a risk to customer information". You can read Dvuln's findings in this blog post.
Qualcomm's got a new flagship SoC for mobile devices - the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. It's more or less the same as the previous Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, but is now made by TSMC instead of Samsung. Both are on a "4nm" process, but TSMC's is so much better that Qualcomm is able to run it roughly 10% faster across the board, resulting in more performance yet using about 30% less power. Qualcomm reckon it'll go on sale in Q3 this year and most OEMs (Xiaomi, Motorola, OnePlus) are lined up to put in their phones. If you ever needed proof of TSMC's dominance, this is a pretty strong one! I'll be polite and wait for benchmarks before bagging out the Snapdragon compared to Apple's SoC's.
Third party Twitter clients just got their wish - the Twitter API will now allow them to "retrieve the most recent Tweets and Retweets posted by the authenticated user and the accounts they follow", allowing third party apps to show tweets in a timeline chronologically. Paul Haddad, the developer of Tweetbot reckons that "we'll simply be able to refresh the timeline more often and allow users to scroll much further back in their timeline". The old API "let you request the home timeline 15 times in a 15 minute window, and could return up to 800 tweets. API v2 supports up to 180 requests per user in that same timeframe, and retrieves 3,200 tweets". I never understood why Twitter was so hostile to 3rd-party apps, maybe they've seen the light?
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