Netflix renews second season of Beat Bugs

This adorable feel-good Netflix Original animated series, Beat Bugs, that aims to bring kids and families together over the love for the music of The Beatles will premiere August 3. Writer and Director Josh Wakely has confirmed yesterday at the Netflix Television Critics Association panel discussion that it has already been renewed for a second season and premiering worldwide November 18. The announcement also mentioned seven more aritsts have signed on to participate in the series.

Aloe Blacc, Robbie Williams, Frances and The Lumineers will join the Beat Bugs family this August, adding to an already celebrated set of singing talent that will help introduce the beloved catalogue of Beatles classics to a new generation. Covers by Rod Stewart, Jennifer Hudson and Tori Kelly will be featured in Season 2 this November.

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‘Darksiders’ gets ‘warmastered’ for the PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Wii U

THQ and Vigil Games is remastering the 2010 action-adventure game Darksiders for the current crop of gaming consoles and the PC. Nordic Games published a listing on its site for a Darksiders Warmastered Edition, which promises improved graphics and native 1080p support resolution for consoles. According to the website, it’ll have double the texture resolution of the original game, post-processing effects, enhanced shadows, and 60 frames per second on the PS4, Xbox One, and Windows PC. The Wii U will run at 30 frames per second. There is no release date yet for this version of the game.

Source: Polygon

The Apple Beat: The iPhone reaches 1 Billion units sold

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple's iPhone has reached a major milestone. The company has confirmed that there have been 1 billion iPhones sold.

“Last week we passed another major milestone when we sold the billionth iPhone. We never set out to make the most, but we’ve always set out to make the best products that make a difference. Thank you to everyone at Apple for helping change the world every day," Apple CEO Tim Cook said earlier today.

This achievement is rare in consumer technology, most specially in mobile phones since manufacturers usually launch various new models each year. The iPhone has been, Apple's singular mobile handset since 2007 and really represents one product that has been painstaikingly refined and iterated on a yearly basis.

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LastPass patches up two major vulnerabilities

No product is flawless, even those password managers you use. LastPass has its own issues to deal with, including two major security exploits from the program’s browser extensions. The good thing is these have been patched already. The company released an update regarding both bugs. One is an exploit discovered by researcher Mathias Karlsson where a URL parsing bug could be used to trick LastPass into divulging passwords for specific sites. You might accidentally click on the spoof URL and think you’re off to Twitter but this malicious page is already stealing your passwords and then quietly pass you on to the social network without knowledge that this happened. It took LastPass a day to resolve this and even gave Karlsson a US$1,000 bounty for the discovery.

Another bug was an exploit found by Google Security Team researcher Travis Ormandy. This affects the Firefox extension but thankfully, this has been fixed, too. What this could do is lure you to a malicious site and then have the site execute LastPass actions to do things like delete items without your knowledge. LastPass is dishing out some important reminders to its users with these discoveries: don’t click links from people you don’t know, use different passwords for different accounts, and if there’s two-factor identification make sure to activate that.

Source: LastPass | Via: Engadget