WordPress introduces an emergency patch for four serious vulnerabilities. WordPress 5.8.3 is available immediately.

Steam has now set a new user record; there were 28.2 million concurrent users in the past weekend. Exactly two years ago, there were ten million fewer users simultaneously online on the game platform.

Security researcher Troy Hunt has added leaked usernames and passwords from rap mixtape website DatPiff to Have I been Pwned. In November, data from nearly 7.5 million members appeared on a hacker forum.

Microsoft is not going to remove developer mode on Xbox. The company’s program manager confirmed this on Twitter. This week there were rumors that Microsoft might be discontinuing the mode and its program after some accounts were deleted. Notably, on the Xbox Series S and X, gamers could use that mode to use the console

AWS has introduced a new service that allows customers to create virtual private cloud (VPC) environments using only IPv6 addresses. This would be especially useful for workloads and applications that use a lot of IP addresses. VPC environments are almost always available in a dual-stack mode in public cloud environments. It means that the environments

Spotify will display clickable ad banners in its app in the US while playing an audio ad in a podcast. The so-called call-to-action cards are intended to generate more visitors to advertisers’ websites. The clickable banners only appear in the US for now. As soon as a new ad for a product or service starts

Qualcomm and Google Cloud to Collaborate on Neural Architecture Search (NAS). With this, the companies want to make the development of AI models more automated instead of manual. The partnership powers Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets with Google Cloud Vertex AI NAS technology. This creates the first SoCs that deliver NAS for developers who want to develop

Microsoft has released an emergency update to fix a Windows Server bug that caused a black screen or general speed issues for some users. It could also lead to Remote Desktop connectivity and performance issues. The out-of-band patch was released on Tuesday for Windows Server 2019 and 2012 R2, Microsoft reports. The remaining platforms affected

Hackers have long had undiscovered access to a server of the Japanese tech group Panasonic. This was discovered by the Japanese public broadcaster NHK. In concrete terms, this involved an attack by hackers on a server in which a lot of confidential information was stolen. According to the Japanese public broadcaster, hackers gained unauthorized access

Security researchers have posted proof-of-concept code of an iOS spoof that hides the reboot process. That makes it more difficult for a user to reboot a phone, allowing spreaders to keep malware on a device. The code was created by ZecOps, which posted the proof-of-concept on GitHub. It is a trojan that the researchers call