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May 4 Tech news roundup: Arc Browser released for Windows, Netflix discontinues Basic plan, OneDrive gets an offline mode
News May 4, 2024
A new desktop browser is available for Windows 11. Netflix is discontinuing its cheapest ad-free plan. Let’s find out what else happened in this week’s tech news roundup. Netflix asks Basic users to move to other plans Netflix has begun prompting users who are subscribed to its Basic plan to…
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GOM Mix Max’s Big Launch
Video Dec 8, 2021
GOM & Company is releasing its newest video editing software, GOM Mix Max, with a big launch celebration. Focused on balancing high-quality and plentiful features, GOM Mix Max will be a powerful tool for new editors and veterans alike. Users who sign up now can get GOM Mix Max for free for…
HP ‘Fixes’ Keylogger That Shipped With Laptops
News May 23, 2017
Tech giant points finger of blame squarely at third party developer. Hewlett Packard has been forced to admit that keylogger software has been present in audio drivers installed in their laptops since 2015. The flaw was discovered by Swiss security research company Modzero. The keylogging aspect of the driver was... Read more
Shares in publicly traded cyber-security firms have risen sharply following attack. Tech companies specializing in security and network safety have pretty much all received a substantial bounce since the Wannacry ransomware went global last week. But then that’s hardly surprising. The scale of Wanancry means that governments and companies... Read more
Manning celebrated her release from miltary prison by tweeting ‘first steps of freedom,’ and by wearing civilian clothes. “After another anxious four months of waiting, the day has finally arrived. I am looking forward to so much! Whatever is ahead of me, is far more important than the past.... Read more
Playboy Model Dani Mathers Will Stand Trial for Body Shaming Pensioner On Social Media
NewsSocial Media May 18, 2017
Model will stand trial for secretly photographing an elderly woman in gym shower and posting it online in 2016. The news comes after a last minute attempt by the Playboy model’s attorneys arguments to dismiss the gharges against her, was batted aside as ‘illogical,’ and ‘vague.’ Mathers is now... Read more
Self-taught security researcher stopped ransomware attack by registering a web domain for $10. A 22-year-old self-taught security researcher (who still lives at home) known only as Malware Tech, managed to stop the spread of the seemingly unstoppable piece of malicious ransomware this weekend, during his vacation, without initially realizing... Read more
Bitcoin Price Surges To $1800 Record High
News May 15, 2017
Value of digital cryptocurrency continues to rise. The digital cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has broken records again, eclipsing the $1700 record it had already broken just days earlier to settle at a new all time high price of over $1800. The new record price means that Bitcoin has increased its value... Read more
Windows Bug Found By Project Zero Researchers A zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Windows malware scanners, such as Defender, could have allowed hackers to take control of Windows computers with a single email… that users might not even have read. The vulnerability was quickly named as possibly the worst Windows remote... Read more
Classic titles joined by Halo Combat Evolved and Pokémon Red and Green newest inductees for 2017. The winners were selected from a final panel of 12 originally selected in March of this year. While only established in 2015, the Video Game Hall of Fame’s annual awards, based in New York, has quickly risen to... Read more
New and improved Advanced IP Scanner 2.5 proves to be an even more accurate network scanner and useful management tool than before. While Advanced IP Scanner 2.5 is still primarily a network scanner, it also comes packed with plenty of useful network management tools making it a real contender... Read more
China To Launch Own Version Of Wikipedia In 2018
News May 10, 2017
Online version of national encyclopaedia to be Wikipedia competitor. Known as the “Chinese Encyclopedia,” the country’s national encyclopedia was first published in book form in 1993. The new online edition will go live for the first time in 2018 and will be the largest and most comprehensive version so far... Read more
Little-known bitcoin exchange suffered huge losses and ‘Fei’ token compensation offer outraged customers. Yapizon, a cryptocurrency exchange based in South Korea was forced to admit last week, that an unknown hacker or group of hackers had been able to compromise its systems and steal over 3,800 bitcoin, currently valued... Read more
Move follows alleged intentional use of ‘Greyball’ software to evade authorities. The US. Department of Justice has seemingly begun a criminal investigation into Uber, and its alleged use of a software tool called ‘Greyball’ that helped its ‘drivers’ evade local transportation regulators, in places where it had not yet... Read more
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces intention is to hire 3,000 extra members of staff to review content. The increase comes on top of the 4,500 employees Facebook already has to review content broadcast or posted that could be judged as being in violation of the company’s community standards. In the post on... Read more
A fast and intuitive Chromium-based web browser with cool features and lots of nice touches. Baidu Spark Browser is a worthy alternative to the likes of Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox, or even, dare I say it, Microsoft’s Edge. It’s also completely free. The learning curve for new users of Baidu is thankfully... Read more
Did slow response by Microsoft leave millions at risk? A slow response time by Microsoft and a premature blog post by McAfee means hackers could have exploited a bug that let them take control of computers around the world and spy on millions. While Microsoft struggled to come up with... Read more
Driverless Cars Set For UK Motorways Trials In 2019
News April 28, 2017
A consortium of British companies known as ‘Driven,’ has unveiled a plan to test driverless cars on UK roads and motorways by 2019. Despite the advances and trials taking place in other parts of the world by the likes of Google, Ford, and Tesla to do with autonomous self driving... Read more
Marissa Mayer’s reign saw security breaches, declining market share and falling revenues. What price for presiding over record breaking security breaches, poor business decisions, falling market share and revenues? About $186 million, actually, if you happen to be Marissa Mayer, the outgoing CEO of former Internet titan, Yahoo. Despite... Read more
Qualtrics latest round of funding marks huge leap forward for experience management tech company founded in 2002. The software company, which is part of Salt Lake City’s growing tech scene, said last week that it had raised $180 million at a valuation of $2.5 billion. The new financing round... Read more