Codec

Meta is almost here and most of us are planning to have an avatar of our own to negotiate its ever-exciting maze. The more realistic the avatar is more is the more fun. Moreover, it is essential for authentic telepresence. To date, the focus has been on how the avatars would interact or what threats they face. Animatable models capable of photorealistic synthetic representations were produced based on sparse signals like body pose. But who would have thought a costume, that too a real-looking one would make the…

Security flaws in an audio codec have been uncovered by security researchers, putting millions of Android phones and other Android devices powered by chipsets from MediaTek and Qualcomm at risk of being compromised by hackers. Stemming from an codec created by Apple several years ago, the vulnerabilities were left unpatched since the company open-sourced the codec 11 years ago, for inclusion on non-Apple devices. By leveraging the security flaws, an attacker could remotely get access to an Android phone's media and audio…