Day: April 3, 2023

Public financial service company TMX Finance has disclosed suffering a data breach incident that exposed personally identifiable information (PII) on almost five million customers.  TMX Finance operates three subsidiaries: TitleMax, TitleBucks, and InstaLoan, all of which have been hit. TitleMax is a lending business, TitleBucks a car loans service, while InstaLoan is a personal loan […]

Microsoft’s Bing AI just got some more improvements, including one that should make the chatbot considerably more helpful when it comes to providing tailored recommendations based on your local area. In a blog post introducing the latest changes, Microsoft acknowledged that it had received feedback telling the company that the ChatGPT-powered Bing needed to do […]

It’s official – cloud storage provider Google Drive has decided to add an official cap on the amount of files that can be stored on a single account. Per Ars Technica, the limit, set at five million files, started cropping up for some Google Drive users in February 2023, despite Google offering no warning that […]

Sigma has just taken the wraps off several exciting new prime lenses for most of the major mirrorless camera systems, except Canon. The big news for anyone who's looking for a bright, affordable prime lens for street or portraiture is Sigma's new pair of Contemporary series lenses. The 17mm f/4 DG DN ($599 / £549) […]

One of the most popular website builder plugins for WordPress carries a high-severity vulnerability that threat actors can use to take over the vulnerable website completely, researchers have warned. Cybersecurity researcher Jerome Bruandet from NinTechNet said he discovered a flaw in Elementor Pro that allows an authenticated attacker to create an administrator account. That gives […]

Want to know a secret? I used to hide niche music genres in my features to spot plagiarists. Type my choice keywords (“ruckus skiffle”, “kawai metal”, “farmcore”, you get the idea) into Google and if another long-form article contained my lifted eccentric genres, I soon aired the author on it.  OK, Spotify's Niche Mixes nixed […]