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with retailers saying that supply seems to be more constrained than ever before.
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Indeed, anyone trying to buy a MacBook Air from the Apple website will have to wait until the back half of August, or for certain configurations until September.
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Gurman says Apple is working to address the issue by raising prices and sourcing memory from Chinese suppliers.
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Meanwhile, the company delayed its latest back-to-school promotion from June, and for the first time, the marketing material is more focused on the base model of the MacBook Pro.
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It even warns, MacBook Air subject to availability.
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Several popular Samsung smart TV apps contain code that share the owner's internet connection with strangers, potentially putting millions of Samsung smart TVs at risk of hijacking.
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Some of these apps claim to have been installed on hundreds of millions of smart TVs in people's homes.
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And at least one of the smart TV apps was a simple Pac-Man game that Samsung had endorsed and prominently featured in its Editor's Choice section on customers' TV screens.
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These apps contain software that funnels outsiders' web traffic through ordinary home and office Internet connections known as Residential Proxy Networks or ResProxies, which are increasingly being linked to cybercrime.
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When opened, apps with ResProxy code can turn the smart TV into an always-on tunnel for outsiders to funnel their web traffic through, known as an exit node, even when the app is no longer open.
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The security research by Norwegian cybersecurity company Mnemonic describes a perfect storm of problems that allows low-quality apps to proliferate across Samsung's App Store, containing code that puts users at risk of having their internet connections tapped by a rogue app.
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Many of these apps are bare-boned shells made from only a few lines of code and are designed solely to load content from another website, such as a game.
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While such smart TV apps load content from another server, any review of these apps sees only the few lines of code within, and not necessarily the content itself.
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Harrison Sand, an offensive security consultant at Mnemonic, said what was reviewed is not necessarily what is running.
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After TechCrunch contacted Samsung with a request for comment about the research, the electronics giant said in an emailed statement that it was banning apps that share their users' internet connections and will remove apps that contain the functionality.
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the Samsung spokesperson wrote, we have already restricted new app registrations that incorporate such proxy functionalities on our smart TV platform.
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We are currently implementing strict platform-wide developer policies explicitly banning residential proxy SDKs, and we are working to identify and remove all apps currently available in our store that contain these components.
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The move comes after LG said last month that it would ban apps that contain ResProxy software after recent reporting found that around 42% of apps on the company's App Store enlisted a smart TV into a proxy network.
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The research also offers a rare look inside a residential proxy network.
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ResProxy code can also be found in regular consumer phone apps as well as other consumer electronics, like digital frames and Android streaming boxes, which then share that device's internet connection.
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