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About a month ago Radford unveiled its stunning 62-2 sports car, a modern revamp of the Lotus 62 race car with modern materials and modern running gear. The company already showed off the Classic and Gold Leaf variants of the car. On Wednesday it finally took the wraps off of the track-focused John Player Special edition. This model features a 600-horsepower supercharged Toyota-sourced V6, dual-clutch transmission, full downforce aero kit, carbon fiber Dymag wheels, and carbon ceramic brakes. It’s properly bonkers.

The engine is a 3.5-liter 2GR-FE based Toyota V6, the same one Lotus uses for its various Evora and Exige models. In stock naturally-aspirated form the engine makes around 300 horsepower, but Radford and Lotus have kicked that up a few notches with some serious modifications. First, obviously, there is a supercharger. Inside the engine, however, the Radford gets special pistons, connecting rods, and camshafts. To control it all, the company tuned the engine with some seriously aggressive calibration. It’s rowdy and ready for a really fast and fun track day.

In comparison to the other less hardcore versions of the Type 62-2 the JPS model has some wild bodywork upgrades to keep the car planted on track. At the front there is a massive splitter, along the sides the car features bigger air inlets to help that supercharged lump gulp down oxygen, and out back there’s a diffuser as deep as the oceans. While it probably won’t be pulling proper race car lap times without a separate rear wing, the Type 62-2 JPS is probably a good bit faster than you can wring out of it anyway. And at the end of the day, that’s what matters.

This version of the car is alleged to drop under 2200 pounds, which puts its power to weight ratio around 3.66 pounds per horsepower. That rate is slightly better than a 1997 McLaren F1, so, you know, it’s probably good. I mean, sure, it’s not a BMW V12, and it hasn’t won Le Mans, but this thing is guaranteed to be measurably better in every metric than the F1 ever was. I think I know which one I’d rather have. Especially because the Radford surely won’t cost eight figures. There’s no word on what it will cost, but I’d bet orders of magnitude less than a McLaren. Only 12 of these hand-painted JPS liveried machines, so it’s rarer than the Macca, too! 

Microsoft Corp. warns that attackers are exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Windows 10 and many Windows Server versions to seize control over PCs when users open a malicious document or visit a booby-trapped website. There is currently no official patch for the flaw, but Microsoft has released recommendations for mitigating the threat.

According to a security advisory from Redmond, the security hole CVE-2021-40444 affects the “MSHTML” component of Internet Explorer (IE) on Windows 10 and many Windows Server versions. IE been slowly abandoned for more recent Windows browsers like Edge, but the same vulnerable component also is used by Microsoft Office applications for rendering web-based content.

“An attacker could craft a malicious ActiveX control to be used by a Microsoft Office document that hosts the browser rendering engine,” Microsoft wrote. “The attacker would then have to convince the user to open the malicious document. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.”

Microsoft has not yet released a patch for CVE-2021-40444, but says users can mitigate the threat from this flaw by disabling the installation of all ActiveX controls in IE. Microsoft says the vulnerability is currently being used in targeted attacks, although its advisory credits three different entities with reporting the flaw.

On of the researchers credited — EXPMON — said on Twitter that it had reproduced the attack on the latest Office 2019 / Office 365 on Windows 10.

“The exploit uses logical flaws so the exploitation is perfectly reliable (& dangerous),” EXPMON tweeted.

Windows users could see an official fix for the bug as soon as September 14, when Microsoft is slated to release its monthly “Patch Tuesday” bundle of security updates.

This year has been a tough one for Windows users and so-called “zero day” threats, which refers to vulnerabilities that are not patched by current versions of the software in question, and are being actively exploited to break into vulnerable computers.

Virtually every month in 2021 so far, Microsoft has been forced to respond to zero-day threats targeting huge swaths of its user base. In fact, by my count May was the only month so far this year that Microsoft didn’t release a patch to fix at least one zero-day attack in Windows or supported software.

Many of those zero-days involve older Microsoft technologies or those that have been retired, like IE11; Microsoft officially retired support for Microsoft Office 365 apps and services on IE11 last month. In July, Microsoft rushed out a fix for the Print Nightmare vulnerability that was present in every supported version of Windows, only to see the patch cause problems for a number of Windows users.

On June’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft addressed six zero-day security holes. And of course in March, hundreds of thousands of organizations running Microsoft Exchange email servers found those systems compromised with backdoors thanks to four zero-day flaws in Exchange.

One of my favorite things about VR is that it’s actually fun to watch other people play. While it’s not necessarily difficult to stream Oculus gameplay from the headset to your TV, it might not be doable; it’s done through casting, so you need a TV or receiver compatible with that technology. If you don’t, you’re out of luck.

PSVR, on the other hand, has the built-in benefit of being a PlayStation console, first and foremost. Obviously, it’s designed to be plugged into your TV, making it easy to see exactly what your friend is doing in virtual space. Half the fun I’ve had with PSVR is watching my friends swing around the room with a big, goofy headset, then turning my attention to the TV to check out exactly what they’re seeing.

Logitech is announcing a new all-in-one dock that’s designed for the new realities of a post-pandemic hybrid workforce. “When the pandemic hit, we spent an incredible amount of time with our end users to understand their needs and pain points in a work-from-home world. The result was Logi Dock,” says Scott Wharton, general manager and vice president of Logitech video collaboration.

The $399 Logi Dock lets you connect up to five USB devices and up to two monitors, all while charging a laptop with a single cable connection. The dock itself is a giant speaker, because it’s also designed with meetings in mind. There are meeting controls on the Logi Dock that let you quickly mute or disable video in Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom. Logitech has even included a built-in noise-cancelling speakerphone that makes it easy to join meetings without having to use a separate dedicated microphone or headset.

Image: Logitech

Logi Dock will also integrate into your calendar, thanks to Logitech’s Logi Tune software. If a meeting is about to start, the Logi Dock will light up to let you know, and you can join just by tapping the dock. If you’re not using the Logi Dock for meetings, you can also use it as a speaker for your PC or any Bluetooth-enabled device.

The Logi Dock includes two USB-A 3.0 ports at the rear, alongside two USB-C 3.1 Gen 1 ports, a DisplayPort, a HDMI port, USB-C upstream, a Kensington lock slot, and a Bluetooth pairing button. At the side there’s also a USB-C 3.1 Gen 1 port.

Logitech’s Logi Dock will be available in both graphite and white options this winter for $399.

• Facebook exec Andrew “Boz” Bosworth posted a video of him pelting Mark Zuckerberg with pillows.
• The video may have been captured using Facebook’s forthcoming smart glasses made with Ray-Ban.
• Ray-Ban recently posted a teaser page on its website with the date “09.09.21.”

We may have just gotten a sneak peek at Facebook’s smart glasses in the form of Mark Zuckerberg getting pelted with pillows. 

On Monday, Facebook executive Andrew “Boz” Bosworth posted a video to Twitter that shows snippets of his daily life: fishing with his family, playing cornhole in the backyard, and … throwing pillows at his boss.

While Zuckerberg is surprised by the first two — so much so that he’s actually taken to the ground by one rather large throw pillow — he successfully catches the third, raising his arms victoriously:

—Boz (@boztank) September 6, 2021

Given Boz’s caption — the humble sunglasses emoji — plus the fact that he runs Facebook’s Reality Labs, which builds AR and VR products for the social media giant, there’s a high likelihood the videos were captured by Facebook’s forthcoming smart glasses, which it’s building with Ray-Ban parent company Luxottica.

Very little is known about the project, which has been in development since as far back as 2017. During a developer conference that year, Facebook showed ordinary-looking glasses that had the ability to place digital objects into the real world. A person who tried on a prototype version of the glasses told Insider’s Rob Price in 2019 that the glasses look like “really high-end glasses” rather than an a traditional, bulky AR headset.

Boz said during an Instagram Q&A earlier this year that Facebook is considering adding facial-recognition technology to the glasses, but only if it can properly address the legal and privacy issues that would go along with that. 

While these hints don’t provide the clearest picture of the glasses’ capabilities, we may soon learn a lot more: Ray-Ban posted a teaser page on its website emblazoned with Facebook’s logo and the date “09.09.21” inside a pair of glasses.

You get 15GB of free storage with a Gmail account, and in the early years it seems impossible to fill up that much space. But after a decade of saving messages just because—whether it be receipts, family vacation-planning threads, coupon codes for a store you never shop at, love letters, you name it—you’ll find yourself nearing that cap. The time has come to delete.

I set up my Gmail account in 2007, and let’s just say I have not been diligent about keep it organized. I try to unsubscribe from lists when things get too unwieldy, but actually cleaning out almost 15 years of emails is daunting.

Fortunately, you can mass delete Gmail messages without having to select each one manually, and it’s actually pretty easy. In the top search bar, type: Label:all mail and press enter. Options will appear directly below the search bar, including the ability to choose emails from a specific sender, a certain time frame, or messages that include attachments. I have a bad habit of subscribing to newsletters that I then let accumulate without ever opening, so I usually use the specific sender method of mass-deleting, but I forget that attachments can take up a ridiculous amount of space (chain emails from 2008, we hardly knew ye).

Once you’ve selected your filter method, click to check the box in the top left above the list of messages to select all. If you want to delete more than the 50 messages displayed on the page, click Select all conversations that match this search. Then click the trash icon.

In case you change your mind, Gmail retains all trashed emails for 30 days by default. You can always hop into your trash to immediately delete those emails forever—simply click the check box on the top left of your Trash folder, and click Select all conversations that match this search. Then click Delete forever. RIP.

Facebook and Ray-Ban are teasing an announcement around their upcoming smart glasses on September 9th. Ray-Ban posted a promotional page with a silhouette of a pair of glasses, the date “09.09 2021,” and the text “sign up now to get your release notification” — although it doesn’t specify whether that’s news about the release or the release itself. Ray-Ban’s homepage also promises that “this is one story you’re going to want to follow,” plausibly a reference to Facebook Stories.

The announcement coincides with some apparent teaser videos from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and virtual and augmented reality head Andrew Bosworth. The posts show point-of-view video clips from Bosworth and Zuckerberg, including Bosworth playing golf and Zuckerberg paddling a boat — all of it seemingly designed to highlight physically active and all-weather scenarios.

Facebook has called its glasses, developed in partnership with Ray-Ban parent company EssilorLuxottica, a stepping stone toward “full augmented reality glasses.” Zuckerberg confirmed in July that the glasses would be Facebook’s next hardware launch, although he didn’t announce a date at that time. He specified that the glasses would “have [Ray-Ban’s] iconic form factor, and they let you do some pretty neat things.”

The glasses are part of a larger Facebook initiative to build glasses that augment the world visually and aurally. But they won’t have features that are commonly associated with AR glasses like the ability to project images into the environment. Facebook is likely also saving its neural wristband technology — which it sees as the future of AR interaction — for a later release.