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The team at the newly popular Twitter alternative Hive is in over their head. The company has now taken the fairly radical step of fully shutting down its servers for a couple of days in response to concerns raised by security researchers who discovered a number of critical vulnerabilities on Hive, several of which they…

Firefox developer Mozilla is making a rare foray into the world of mergers and acquisitions, with news that it has snapped up recently-shuttered California-based productivity startup Pulse. Terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed, but the deal is tantamount to an “acqui-hire,” with Mozilla looking to deploy the Pulse team across an array of machine…

Artificial intelligence is a term thrown around a lot in the tech space, and while it’s not always the easiest thing to understand, it can have some pretty fascinating uses — such as AI image generators with apps like Lensa. Lensa is an AI-powered photo editing app with a large swath of tools, allowing users…

It’s bittersweet when a popular show ends with an explosive season. Fans are left wanting more while the internet is aflutter with theories, questions, and anxious expressions of disbelief, wonder, excitement, or even tears. Some season finales have been particularly shocking, in various ways. Contents 10. Dexter (season 8, 2013) 9. The Sopranos (season 6,…

LinkedIn, the social platform for the working world for networking and recruitment, hasn’t been the biggest name in headlines when it comes to how social media is leveraged for spam, scams and fake news, but they’re all significant problems on the platform that will only get bigger as traffic grows (as it’s doing currently, at…

One of the top problems facing device manufacturers today is overheating hardware. The chips inside PCs generate heat, which — when allowed to build up — majorly hurts performance. Cooling is less of a challenge when space isn’t at a premium. But as the marketplace pushes for ever-thinner notebooks and so-called ultraportables, manufacturers are being…

In September 2022, Apple released the iPhone 14 lineup. This includes the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max. I’ve been using the iPhone ever since 2008, and I’ve upgraded every year on launch day, this year being no exception. I went with the iPhone 14 Pro this year, as…

This year has been an undeniably busy one for Apple. The company released a huge number of products in 2022, from updates and refreshes to totally new products never seen before. Yet, despite the flurry of devices, there were still plenty of absences in the lineup. That’s right, even with all the Apple products that…

Two months ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it had fined 16 Wall Street firms more than $1.1 billion for “widespread recordkeeping failures” regarding maintaining electronic communications, contravening federal securities laws. In addition, the SEC is now probing private equity firms on their employees’ use of messaging apps for work purposes, including WhatsApp,…