Month: February 2024
Rivian says it is laying off 10 percent of its workforce as EV woes deepen
Rivian said it was laying off 10 percent of its workforce as concerns about slower electric vehicle sales continue to reverberate across the industry. The company made the announcement as part of its fourth quarter earnings report, in which it said it likely wouldn’t make any more vehicles this year…
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Apple says the iPhone 15’s battery got better — but won’t say exactly how
iPhone 15 owners seemingly got some great news yesterday: long-term battery health is better than Apple initially claimed. Twice as good, in fact! The company is now advertising a much larger number to represent how long its batteries will last. The trouble is, we’re not exactly sure if the batteries…
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Website builder Ucraft leaks data of hundreds of thousands of users
Hundreds of thousands of users of a popular website builder firm may have had their personal information leaked online due to shoddy security practices, a new report has revealed. Researchers from Cybernews found that a publicly accessible Google Cloud Storage Bucket belonging to website building and design tools firm Ucraft…
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Meet the new Google sign-in page
If you’ve logged in to your Google account recently, you might have seen a message that “a new look is coming soon,” and now, Google is showing off the “more modern look and feel” of its new sign-in page. Of course, if that screenshot feels incredibly familiar, that’s because it’s…
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FTC concludes Twitter didn’t violate data security rules, in spite of Musk’s orders
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concluded Elon Musk ordered Twitter (now X) employees to take actions that would have violated an FTC consent decree regarding consumers’ data privacy and security. The investigation arose from the late 2022 episode informally known as “The Twitter Files,” where Musk ordered staff to let…
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New iPad Pros and iPad Air are tipped to get bigger but slimmer
The next-generation iPad Pro 2024 and iPad Air 6 could be larger yet thinner than their predecessors and are expected to arrive this year. That’s according to 9to5Mac’s sources, which have reportedly tipped the publication off about the actual sizes of a trio of new iPads, one of which is…
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