Got a Samsung phone? Well, the Koreans at the Big S will have to publish a software update for it, because “Alephzain”, a modder/hacker was able to use it to root his Samsung Galaxy S III. The bad part? It can delete or completely brick your Samsung smartphone, all because it has certain Exynos processors, a key element to using the exploit. It’s working in practice as well (besides malware apps); another user called “Chainfire” has already build an apk that can use the “ExynosAbuse” to root a number of devices including:
Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I9100
Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300
Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE GT-I9305
Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 GT-N7100
Verizon Galaxy Note 2 SCH-I605 (locked bootloaders)
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 GT-N8000
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 GT-N8010
Only the Nexus 10 is safe from this, due to its Exynos 5 processor, instead of the more common 4. Samsung has yet to say a word about it, but one thing can be for sure: don’t download skecthy apps.
Via: XDA Developers, The Next Web
Twitter is slowly rolling out an archive of all your tweets to the Settings page of your Twitter account. From there, you request that an HTML file that contains a calendar of all your tweets is sent to you via email — and voila! You have every single tweet you posted, for good or for bad. Currently, I’ve been unable to test out the new feature, but that could change any minute, just like for every other member of the tech press.
Recently, the UN has been experimenting with polices that would give countries governance over the internet, something of which the United States, United kingdom, and Canada disagreed recently and refuse to sign. One of the things disagreed upon is that “all states to have equal rights to the governance of the Internet.”
In a rather intriguing interview, Young Sohn, Samsung’s Chief Strategy Officer, 
Google has been rather busy, as usual. However, they’ve also stated where they won’t be doing any work: on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Why? Because they think nobody uses them (which to a degree, has some merit). As Google’s product management director at Google Apps, Clay Bavor said, “We have no plans to build out Windows apps,” He continued, saying that, ”We are very careful about where we invest and will go where the users are but they are not on Windows Phone or Windows 8.”
It is official! Google Maps is back on iOS, to save all the users of the iPhone 5 and other iOS 6 from Apple Maps, which from the beginning has been an absolute disaster. All the greatest things about Google Maps are in the release: turn by turn navigation has been added, along with public transit directions, Street View, accurate maps, and more. You can find it in the App Store, or the source link. Via: 
This is one to remember: Pepsi-flavored Lays potato chips. In China. Actually, they are edible and won’t cause your taste buds to self-destroy, in fact, 
Google has published its annual Zeitgeist report, revealing the world’s most popular people, events, and media of 2012. The biggest searches worldwide were for Whitney Houston, Gangnam Style, and Hurricane Sandy, but Google has also broken down the results by category and country. Next up, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was the United States’ most popular “what is” search term of the year, beating out Scientology and “KONY,” the name of a Ugandan guerrilla leader who was the subject of a viral video a few months back. The Hunger Games was the most searched movie of the year, both in the US and worldwide lists. As for images, Selena Gomez, Megan Fox, Rihanna, and the iPhone 5 as well as Minecraft took part in top spots.
Justin Angel, a Nokia engineer working on Windows Phone, has 
This is something for the record books — the narration, CGI, and artwork of the Tyranny of King Washington, an upcoming DLC for Assassin’s Creed III could make you wet your pants.In the upcoming alternate-alternate reality tale, George Washington is recast as a power-mad tyrant who crowns himself king of the US, but Connor is the sole man that stands in his way, and is fighting an uphill battle.
