Month: July 2022
Xbox 360 games will no longer be part of Xbox Games with Gold in October
Microsoft is planning to remove Xbox 360 games from its monthly Games with Gold offer in October. The software maker has started emailing Xbox Live Gold subscribers to warn them of the change, noting that the company has “reached the limit of our ability to bring Xbox 360 games to…
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Samsung set for bumper Q2 despite smartphone slump
Audio player loading… Samsung is expected to post its best second quarter results for four years, despite its lack of immunity from the smartphone industry’s current struggles. Analysts believe quarterly revenues to have increased from 12.57 trillion won to 14.46 trillion won for the three-month period, with demand for its…
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Google Hangouts stops working on Android, iOS as big switchover begins
Audio player loading… The last days of Google Hangouts are upon us, as the discontinued messaging app has now finally stopped working for many iOS and Android users. This shouldn’t come as a shock; Google first began transferring users from Google Hangouts to Google Chat back in 2020, and fully…
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Lazy software fixes are creating even more problems for security teams
Audio player loading… Quick fixes for zero-day vulnerabilities are giving rise to fresh issues for security teams, a new Google report suggests. According to cybersecurity researchers at Google Project Zero, half of the 18 zero-days found in major software this year could have been prevented had developers done a better…
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How one senator’s broken hip puts net neutrality at risk
One of the strange features of American government is that an 82-year-old’s broken hip can cause a sea change in telecom policy. The 82-year-old in question is Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who had surgery after a fall on Thursday and is said to be resting comfortably. But while Leahy recuperates,…
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Have you heard the one about the crab and the underwater volcano?
Studying an underwater volcano is hard enough without a spider crab getting in the way. In an absolutely delightful field dispatch, Jes Burns of Oregon Public Broadcasting tells the story of a crab, some geologists just trying to set up their equipment, and a remotely operated vehicle named Jason that,…
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