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Update 19/1: Twitter has now confirmed that any third-party apps are banned, according to Engadget. If you found that apps such as Twitteriffic and Tweetbot had stopped working, it wasn't by accident. In one swoop, third-party apps for Twitter went offline earlier this month, rendering the efforts of many developers over the years pointless, and […]

Microsoft has confirmed significant job cuts as global economic uncertainty continue, with around 10,000 roles set to go at the tech giant In an internal memo to employess,  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella cited a need to, “align our cost structure with our revenue and where we see customer demand.” The company also revealed it will […]

Porsche has entered a rather unexpected collaboration with seat manufacturer RECARO to produce a gaming chair based on the former’s sports cars.  With the rather unsexy moniker, RECARO x Porsche Gaming Chair Limited Edition, the chair leans more into comfort than race-car-inspired fashion – and that's probably a good thing. Gaming chairs are famously lacking […]

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Samsung is dropping hints that its next Galaxy Book Windows laptop, expected at Unpacked on February 1, will get the Ultra treatment, similar to the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra tablet and the upcoming Galaxy S23 Ultra phone. That likely means an S Pen on board, since Samsung shut down its Note family of devices to […]

Qbot has become the most prevalent banking trojan around, taking the top spot from Emotet, new figures have claimed. According to fresh figures from the Check Point Global Threat Index for December 2022, Qbot (also known as Qakbot) impacted 7% of organizations worldwide, retaking the number one spot from Emotet (4%). Based on proprietary data, […]

There are only two ‘Friday the 13th’s in 2023, and the first has already seen Microsoft scrambling to fix an issue that affected users’ Start menus and taskbars following a botched update to its Defender antivirus. Following the mishap, Microsoft took to the Internet to confirm that many users had experienced “a series of false […]

Apple has announced its latest silicon for professional users, the Apple M2 Pro and M2 Max, and the company is promising some seriously improved performance with this second-generation. With the phenomenal success of Apple's move to its own silicon in 2020, it's not surprising at all to see that it is following up on the […]

Nvidia’s RTX 4090 and 4080 are debuting in laptops very soon, and we’ve caught another glimpse of pricing – underlining just how expensive notebooks boasting these GPUs will be, particularly the Lovelace flagship. The new prices are from Micro Center, which is now listing MSI gaming laptops as Wccftech reports, with the top model being […]

Hackers are utilizing a known vulnerability in device monitoring tool Cacti to install all sorts of malware on vulnerable endpoints, researchers have claimed.  Cybersecurity researchers from The Shadowserver Foundation spotted multiple attempts at delivering various malware via the critical command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-46169.  By abusing the flaw, which has a severity rating of […]