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Samsung

Samsung Group is a international conglomerate founded in 1938. Their product portfolio ranges from consumer electronics to heavy equipment.

Samsung ads in refrigerators

Samsung Family Hub refrigerators are premium smart appliances featuring touchscreen displays integrated into refrigerator doors, with models ranging from $1,800 to $3,500 in the United States. These…

Samsung Bothersome visual and audible pop up every 2 hours on certain TV models
Samsung Frame TV asks for subscription to view photos

Samsung suddenly told users after an update they would require a subscription to display a slideshow on their Samsung Frame TV.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3's camera gets artificially blocked after unlocking the bootloader

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3's cameras were being artificially disabled from software after the unlocking the phone's bootloader.

Samsung Gear 360 software and services discontinued

The Samsung Gear 360 is a 360-degree camera first released in 2016, designed to capture immersive photos and videos. It relied on the Gear 360 mobile app and the ActionDirector software for editing…

Samsung Odyssey

Samsung is a well known manufacturer of monitors and a pioneer of curved screen technology. Their Odyssey lineup of curved gaming monitors is all-encompassing, ranging from small, affordable VA…

Samsung One UI 8 Bootloader Restriction
Samsung self-repair program restrictions

Major smartphone manufacturers' self-repair programs have started to emerge in response to the passage of right to repair legislation. While these are marketed as expanding repair options, they often…

Samsung SmartCam

Samsung SmartCam's products are very well designed devices that record good quality videos and save them to a local microSD card in a compressed format. You can access your camera remotely using a…

Samsung sued over S22 performance throttle

In 2022, with the release of the S22 phone line, Samsung released pre-installed software on their flagship phones, deemed the "Gaming Optimization Service" (GOS). Unbeknownst to the consumer, GOS…

Samsung TVs

Samsung TVs have been the subject of multiple lawsuits, regulatory complaints, & consumer backlash over data collection practices, benchmark manipulation, & post-purchase advertising. In December…

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Sandisk disables IXpand drive app

SanDisk has officially deprecated support for the legacy "iXpand Drive" application. Existing users are now prompted via a mandatory pop-up to migrate to the new SanDisk Memory Zone app.

Sandisk Wireless Flash Drives

Sandisk Connect Wireless is a product line of flash drives with Wi-Fi capability, enabling them to be controlled & accessed over a network instead of relying on USB. SanDisk Wireless Drive and…

Sassy Saints review copyright claim

On September 27 2024, YouTube creator Lots of Love, Cindy posted a video review of a nail kit made by the British company Sassy Saints, providing her opinion and experiences with the product.

Save Wizard

Save Wizard for PS4 Max advertises itself as a service for editing PlayStation 4 save files, that can modify save files using cheats.

Scopely, Inc.

Scopely, Inc. is an American interactive entertainment company and mobile-first video game developer and publisher.

Screenshot blocking

Screenshot blocking prevents the owner of a computing device from capturing screenshots and screen recordings. Some operating systems such as Android and Apple iOS let app makers block the device…

Scribd

Scribd Inc. is a digital document library founded in 2007 by Jared Friedman, Trip Adler, and Tikhon Bernstam.

Seagate

Seagate Technology is a data storage company from the US that specializes in high-quality hard drives, solid state drives, and other such long-term storage solutions.

Seagate sells old hard drives as new

Reports from consumers, as well as investigations by Heise Online, describe an issue where used and refurbished Seagate hard drives are being sold as new. Many buyers reported receiving drives with…

Seattle Avionics

Seattle Avionics is a company that specializes in providing software for general aviation aircraft. FlyQ EFB was an electronic flight bag application available for iPad and iPhone which was primarily…

SecuRam installs backdoor on ProLogic series safe locks

Researchers found a way to open safes with SecuRam ProLogic safe locks without the passkey using backdoor codes installed by the manufacturer. SecuRam offers no path for vulnerable customers to…

Secure boot

Secure boot, also known as verified boot, is any technology that prevents the execution of non-trusted programs during the startup sequence of a computer system, such as a desktop PC or a smartphone…

Secure gateway module

A secure gateway module (SGW) is a digital firewall integrated into a vehicle's electrical architecture that restricts access to the on-board diagnostic (OBD-II) port by requiring…

Securities and Exchange Commission

The stated mission of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is to protect investors; maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and facilitate capital formation.

Securities and Exchange Commission search tools

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) offers public-facing search tools.

Security

Security is an engineering principal whereby the risk of an unauthorized malicious agent gaining control of a product, its information, or its environment is minimized. Security of programs and…

Security through obscurity

Main article: Security Security through obscurity is a practice where companies obfuscate or hide the logic behind their product to supposedly enhance their security. It also includes practices like…

SecuROM

SecuROM is a digital rights management (DRM) system developed by Sony for PC games and first released in 1998. Historically, SecuROM is well known for being the most agitating form of DRM of the…

Self-destructive design

Self-destructive design is a generic form of product design whereby it is possible that some if not all functions of the device will cease functioning. Self-destructive design can occur…

Self-hosting

Self-hosting is the practice of implementing digital services with server applications under one's own control. This is opposed to relying on large public services or cloud services, compared to…

Sengled

Sengled is a Chinese smart-lighting manufacturer that focuses on affordable smart light bulbs to consumers that are compatible with Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant.

Serato DJ Pro / DJM-S11

c The Pioneer DJ DJM-S11 software previously allowed users to enable the "Make Audio Available to Other Applications" checkbox to route audio directly into applications such as OBS or QuickTime…

Sevenhugs Smart Remote products discontinuation

Sevenhugs manufactured and marketed a set of Smart Remote products with the unique ability to change the displayed controls based on what room you were in, or what device you were pointing the remote…

Sezzle

Sezzle is a publicly traded financial technology company formed in 2016 by Charlie Youakim. It is headquartered in Minneapolis, US, with operations in the United States and Canada.

Shake Shack

Shake Shack Inc. is a fast food company founded in 2004.

Shell

Shell plc is a British oil and gas company that was Founded in 1907 through a merge deal between Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport and Trading Company. It is the second-largest…

Shimano

Shimano, Inc. is a Japanese multinational manufacturing company that produces bicycling components, fishing tackle, and rowing equipment.

Shoney's

Founded by Alex Schoenbaum, Shoney’s North America, LLC is an private American restaurant chain.

Shopee

Shopee Pte., Ltd., commonly known as Shopee, is an e-commerce website, founded in 2015 in Singapore, operating primarily in southeast Asia and Latin America. Shopee operates under Sea Ltd, which is…

Shortage of medical ventilators during COVID-19 pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a shortage of medical ventilators was expressed widely and extensively across news outlets and the media, leading to investigations on the cause of the shortage[citation…

Shrinkflation

Shrinkflation (from "shrink" and "inflation"; Dutch: krimpflatie), additionally referred to as package downsizing, weight-out, and price pack architecture, is a corporate strategy where manufacturers…

Sideloading

Sideloading is a term suggested by product manufacturers that refers to a secondary method of software installation, typically one with more user control compared to the primary one(-s) that are…

Sig Sauer

SIG Sauer is a Swiss brand name of firearms originally manufactured in Neuhausen am Rheinfall. Several sister companies that design and manufacture firearms use the trade name SIG Sauer [ɛs iː ɡeː…

Signal

Signal is a privacy-focused, open source encrypted messaging service developed by the nonprofit Signal Foundation. Signal was released in 2014, and has over 70 million active users reported as of…

Signal cloud backups

Signal is a privacy-focused, open source encrypted messaging service. In 2020, the company was accused of collecting and storing sensitive user data on their cloud database without user consent.

SimplePractice

SimplePractice provides client portal and telehealth software for psychiatrists and therapists.