Technology

SentinelLabs, SentinelOne's threat research team, has discovered two serious flaws in Avast and AVG. The vulnerabilities in the antivirus programs went undiscovered for a decade and could potentially affect tens of millions of users.…
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Last year, Facebook wrongly blocked some 17,000 pages in Australia, saying it accidentally when wanted to block news channels. Documents now show that this was a deliberate blunder to avoid stricter regulations. When Australian…
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Heroku has had the passwords of all of its user accounts changed. The move comes about a month after the company's OAuth tokens were stolen. Cloud platform Heroku has asked its users to change their passwords before the company…
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Spotify gained more users in the first quarter, despite the outcry about comedian Joe Rogan's podcasts earlier this year. The originally Swedish company now has 422 million monthly active users, an increase of 19 percent compared to a year…
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Unknowns have stolen a series of NFTs by posting a phishing link on Bored Ape Yacht Club's Instagram account. The latter is the 'exclusive' group for owners of a jpeg with a bored monkey on it. NFTs remain a magnet for robberies.…
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The Ministry of Health of the Canadian province of Quebec released very exciting corona figures on Thursday. A tweet from the ministry briefly did not lead to the ministry's website with the latest corona figures but to a video on…
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The Spanish government plans to invest 11 billion euros in the production of microchips and semiconductors. "We want our country to join the leading industrial and technological progress group," said Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.…
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Some hackers have found an efficient way to retrieve someone's personal data: they pose as an agent who urgently needs the information 'for a matter of life or death'. The method is as simple as it is genius. When formally…
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Russian developers are working on an alternative to the Google Play Store for the Android platform. The development is in response to the discontinuation of app sales in Russia by Google parent company Alphabet. Like Apple, Google…
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The settlement between game producer Activision Blizzard and a US government agency over sexual misconduct in the workplace has finally been approved. Not everyone involved is equally happy with the result. A series of revelations…
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