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Slack said it is resetting passwords for approximately one percent of user accounts in response to new information about a 2015 security breach. The team collaboration software maker revealed in January that it had more than 10 million daily active users. One percent of 10 million is 100,000 users. Slack in today’s notice said the […]
Microsoft posted the fourth quarter of its 2019 financial results today, reporting revenue of $33.7 billion and net income of $13.2 billion. Both are big increases year-over-year, setting a new record fiscal year for Microsoft. The results also come as Microsoft continues to be valued as a $1 trillion company thanks to the company’s market […]
Instagram has expanded its test of removing like counts and appears to have restricted the test even further by showing no likes at all. For the past several months, Instagram was running a test in Canada that hid likes from public view. The platform is now hiding Likes and video views for select users in […]
Appearing right on time during the week of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, here’s the first trailer for Snoopy in Space, an educational Peanuts show made exclusively for the upcoming Apple TV+ streaming service. Apple has offered an early look at its Apple TV+ Peanuts cartoons with a short trailer for […]
Just ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, you’ll have another way to tune into NASA TV’s live stream. Hulu will carry the feed on its live TV service as of July 19th, and a selection of video-on-demand material will arrive on the platform this week. _________________| ,————– | | | […]
Netflix just released its financial results for the second quarter of 2019, and a number that jumps out is that its service grew by 2.7 million subscribers. That’s a problem for shareholders because in its last report, the company predicted it would be up about 5 million in Q2, and in the US it actually […]
Microsoft scored a deal to provide AT&T with cloud services in support of non-network applications and the carrier’s deepening push into the cloud. The multi-year agreement is reportedly valued at more than $2 billion. For AT&T, the move is part of becoming a “public cloud first” company, which is marketing speak for a broader initiative […]
The EU’s Competition Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon to investigate whether the company is using sales data to gain an unfair advantage over smaller sellers on the Marketplace platform. The Commission says it will look into Amazon’s agreements with marketplace sellers, as well as how Amazon uses data to choose which […]
Facebook’s reported $5 billion settlement with the FTC isn’t even official yet, but that isn’t stopping politicians from bristling at it. Senators Richard Blumenthal, Josh Hawley and Ed Markey have sent a letter to the FTC requesting answers about the rumored settlement, expressing worries that the penalty would be “woefully inadequate” given privacy violations like […]
Currently in beta, Apple’s iOS 13 gets a few iterations before its gold release in fall as developers and curious users get to test new features and give feedback on their experience. A recent flaw that was first reported on Reddit is worth the attention of users running the iOS 13 beta 3 on their […]
Sprint is in the process of informing customers about a security breach that occurred last month. In a letter to affected customers, Sprint said it learned of the unauthorized access on June 22, 2019. According to the nation’s fourth largest wireless carrier, hackers gained access through the “add a line” portal on Samsung’s website. Potentially […]
Back in June, during E3, we learned that Ubisoft was getting ready to debut its all-you-can-play subscription service called “Uplay+.” It claimed subscribers would have access to over 100 games at launch, but was shy with a list of what those games would be other than a few titles like Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Far Cry […]
LG Pay, LG’s copy and paste alternative to Samsung Pay, has been available in South Korea ever since 2017. There have been lots of rumors between then and now regarding its U.S. launch, but now on July 16, it’s finally arrived. To no one’s surprise, LG Pay is limited to select LG phones. At launch, […]
A group of senators introduced a bipartisan piece of legislation Tuesday that would limit the Trump administration’s abilities to scale back pressure on the Chinese tech giant Huawei without an act of Congress. House representatives have introduced equivalent legislation on their side of Congress. The politicians saw this as absolutely vital to protecting 5G networks. […]
Twitter said that it would label tweets from political figures that violate its rules, but it’s not clear if the social network is applying that policy yet. CNET noted that Twitter hasn’t labeled a series of President Trump tweets that are widely considered to be racist. The politician suggested that “Progressive Democrat Congresswomen” critical of […]