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There have been quite a few reports recently of Apple’s new iPhones not selling as well as the company might have hoped. A new report claims that Apple has resumed production of the iPhone X due to low sales of the iPhone XS and XS Max.

The Wall Street Journal hears that sales of the iPhone XS and XS Max models, launched a couple of months ago, have been below Apple’s expectations so the company has restarted production of the original iPhone X. The company has apparently done this due to an agreement with Samsung for purchasing a certain quantity of OLED display panels.

Since the new iPhone models have not sold in the quantities that are required to meet that threshold set in the agreement with Samsung, Apple has reportedly resumed the iPhone X’s production to solve this problem. It merits mentioning here that Apple stopped selling the iPhone X when the iPhone XS was released earlier this year.

The decision to restart iPhone X production is reportedly based on the overall cheaper manufacturing process for last year’s flagship. Apple has produced legacy models in the past as well even when the latest models were selling well so this is not out of the ordinary for the company.

Apple has now confirmed or denied the report about restarting iPhone X production.

Apple Reportedly Resumes iPhone X Production Due To Low XS Sales , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

REI skips Black Friday every year in favor of enjoying the great outdoors, which is fair. But that doesn’t mean they’ll leave you in the lurch when it comes to savings. The outdoor retailer is getting a jump on Cyber Monday by taking up to 40% off a huge range of their stock — prices on everything from tents and…

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The US Postal Service has taken an entire year to fix a security vulnerability on the usps.com website that revealed data of all 60 million of its users. Anyone could see the personal account information of these users including details such as usernames and street addresses. An independent researcher had reportedly identified this security vulnerability over a year ago.

The USPS apparently took its sweet time in patching this vulnerability as Krebs on Security reports that USPS only applied the patch earlier this week. This means that the vulnerability left the user data of 60 million people completely exposed for an entire year.

The vulnerability allowed anyone to access a USPS database that’s offered to businesses and advertisers who want to track user packages and data. This vulnerability in the application programming interface or API should have ascertained whether an account had the permissions to access that data but no such controls had been put in place.

Personal data such as phone numbers, emails, mailing campaign data, and more were exposed to anyone logged into usps.com. Users could also request account changes for some other user. The street addresses are searchable through the database so any logged in user could obtain them and thus no hacking tools were required to exploit this vulnerability.

“Any information suggesting criminals have tried to exploit potential vulnerabilities in our network is taken very seriously. Out of an abundance of caution, the Postal Service is further investigating to ensure that anyone who may have sought to access our systems inappropriately is pursued to the fullest extent of the law,” the USPS said in a statement.

USPS Fixes Vulnerability That Exposed Data Of 60 Million Users , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

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Seasonal action figures are a really fun idea. And who’s more suited for Christmas than the Master of the Universe himself, He-Man? After all, he’s taken his turn as Santa before, in a wonderfully bizarre Christmas special. Why not take that power to plastic?

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