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Google has announced that it will be cutting around 12,000 jobs, in reaction to global economic circumstances.  According to Bloomberg (paywall), Google SEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to staff on Friday to notify them of the incoming redundancies, which will account for around 6% of the company's entire staff.  It follows from earlier this […]

The wait is over, because Google Meet users will now be able to join Zoom calls straight from their own devices without needing to install the Zoom client. Initially announced last October and destined for a late 2022 launch, Google has finally announced that users will now be able to join Zoom calls from compatible […]

T-Mobile has warned millions of its customers that a threat actor used an Application Programming Interface (API) to gain access to some of their sensitive data.  In a warning published on the company’s website, T-Mobile tried to play down the importance of the incident, saying some “basic customer information (nearly all of which is the […]

The release of a Microsoft Xbox VR headset is a question that everyone’s asked since s PSVR was released, but so far, the Redmond-based company has been reluctant to officially enter the field of console-based virtual reality. However, it’s clear that VR isn’t a passing fad. The Meta Quest 2 (formerly known as Oculus Quest […]

We’ll level with you: this weekend is not a particularly great one for new things to watch on streaming services. While the likes of The Last of Us, Vikings: Valhalla and The Menu got January off to a great start, the next few days are decidedly less interesting on the entertainment front.   That’s not […]

The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra has the potential be one of the best phones of 2023, and there’s not long to wait for it, as Samsung is set to unveil the S23 series at Galaxy Unpacked 2023 on February 1. We’re expecting to see the vanilla Samsung Galaxy S23 and the Samsung Galaxy S23 Plus […]

To celebrate February's Black History Month, Apple is rolling out this year’s Black Unity Collection featuring a special edition Sport Loop for select Apple Watch models plus new curated collections and content for multiple iOS platforms. 2023’s Black Unity Sport Loop is made from intricately woven yarn spelling out the word “Unity” using the same […]

Cybersecurity researchers from X41 and GitLab has discovered three high-severity vulnerabilities in the Git distributed version control system. The flaws could have allowed threat actors to run arbitrary code on target endpoints by exploiting heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities, the researchers said. Of the three flaws, two already have patches lined up, while a workaround is […]

Your humble Wi-Fi router signal could be used to track your movements around a  room, bat style, a new report has claimed. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University recently published a report in which they detailed an experiment using ordinary off-the-shelf Wi-Fi routers to detect people’s locations, as well as their poses, in a room.  The […]

Norwegian shipping classification society DNV has been hit by a ransomware attack which forced the company to shut down some of its servers. The attack affected roughly 1,000 ships using DNV's ShipManager software – a tool that its customers use to monitor different features of their shipping fleets.  DNV says some 300 companies use the […]