Month: February 2023
Overwatch League season 6 is bringing massive changes
The sixth season of the Overwatch League will be its biggest yet, literally. With Overwatch 2 in its first full year and finally in the hands of players worldwide, the League is making sweeping changes to accompany this new state of things. To start, the Philadelphia Fusion and the Paris…
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Apple extends Buy Now, Pay Later service beta to its own retail staff
Audio player loading… Apple is expanding internal testing of the App Store’s Buy Now, Pay Later service to its retail workers, moving past the company’s corporate employees. While a full public launch is still pending, this latest move could be a sign that the feature is coming out relatively soon. …
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Many online stores are exposing private customer data
Audio player loading… Many top online stores are exposing private customer data, putting both the business, and their users, at risk of identity theft (opens in new tab), extortion attacks, and other cybersecurity incidents, new research has claimed. Analyzing more than 2,000 online stores, Sansec found that 250, or approximately…
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Spotify now lets you exclude certain playlists from its recommendations
Spotify is rolling out a feature that will let you tell it to ignore music in certain playlists when it’s deciding what type of music you like. The feature is called Exclude From Your Taste Profile, and the company is pitching it as a way to keep your recommendations from…
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Google’s head of VR is leaving to form an AI company with the former co-CEO of Salesforce
Google isn’t planning to replace Bavor, spokesperson Chris Pappas tells The Verge. The Labs team will be moved to the company’s Tech & Society organization under James Manyika. The company’s AR work will be split, and much of it will be under the leadership of Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google’s platforms and…
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Clop ransomware had a rather handy flaw for Linux users to exploit
Audio player loading… A relatively obscure ransomware (opens in new tab) variant called Clop may stay that way for a bit longer, after it was discovered to have a Linux version that had a rather embarassing flaw. The Linux version of the ransomware was first spotted in December 2022 by…
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