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TL;DR: Titanfall 1 (PC) and Titanfall 2 (all platforms) multiplayer are generally not playable. Respawn not acknowledging the issue at all. On PC community-created solutions such as Northstar seem to be the way forward. Previous sticky on…

This is a comparison of free and open-source software licences. The comparison only covers software licences with a linked article for details, approved by at least one expert group at the FSF, the OSI, the Debian project or the…

Single-File Source-Code Program Execution In JDK 11, Java introduced the ability to launch a single-file source-code program with the java launcher, without first needing to explicitly compile the source code. This works by the java…

Austrian DSB: Use of Google Analytics violates the "Schrems II" decision by CJEU. In a groundbreaking decision, the Austrian Data Protection Authority ("Datenschutzbehörde" or "DSB") has decided on a model case by now that the continuous…

Encryption is the way of encoding data so that only authorized people can decode and read it. In terms of technical, it is the process of converting human-readable plain text to incomprehensible text, also known as ciphertext. Encryption…

German police used a contact tracing app to track down witnesses in a local criminal case. The scandal has data protection advocates up in arms, with politicians warning that abuse of the app could undermine public trust. Authorities in…

Researchers have developed a new technique that fakes a shutdown or reboot of iPhones, preventing malware from being removed and allowing hackers to secretly snoop on microphones and receive sensitive data via a live network…

Apple is updating the wording for iCloud Private Relay issues in the latest iOS 15.3 beta, clarifying that problems with the service may be an inadvertently switched-off setting and not issues with a customer’s specific cell carrier, via…

Moxie Marlinspike, the co-founder and chief executive of encrypted-messaging app Signal, has resigned. He blogged it was a "good time to replace myself as CEO" after working on Signal for over a decade. Signal…

YouTube is a major conduit of fake news, fact-checkers say The platform is not doing enough to tackle the spread of falsehoods, claims letters signed by 80 groups. YouTube is a major conduit of online disinformation and…

Goals of the Study According to its privacy policy, Facebook may collect information about you across the web even if you don’t have a Facebook account. One way Facebook performs this tracking is through a network of “pixels” that may be…

Has Apple taken action against apps that cloned the popular web game Wordle? They have now disappeared from the App Store after several publications (including The Verge) called out a flood of copycats so blatant as to be named “Wordle” and…

The Information Commissioners' Office (ICO) is to talk to Meta about how its virtual reality (VR) business Oculus complies with the regulator's "children's code". The code aims to ensure that online services likely to…

Apple will allow alternative payment systems in South Korea in compliance with a new local law that bans app store operators from forcing their own in-app payment systems, the country's telecommunications regulator said Tuesday.…

A cybercrime group has been mailing out USB thumb drives in the hope that recipients will plug them into their PCs and install ransomware on their networks, according to the FBI. The USB drives contain so-called 'BadUSB' attacks. They…

Omicron Covid-19 variant anxieties have inspired cybercriminals to create new themed phishing attacks. The latest campaign includes the deployment of Dridex malware. Dridex is banking malware distributed through phishing emails that contain…

Police in India have arrested a man suspected of creating an app that put up photos of more than 80 Muslim women for "sale" online last year. The open source app - Sulli Deals - had been hosted on web platform GitHub in July 2021.…

French regulators have hit Google and Facebook with fines totalling 210m euros (£175m) over use of cookies. Data privacy watchdog the CNIL said both sites were making it difficult for internet users to refuse the online…

Instagram blocked posts using a hashtag in memory of the victims of a Ukrainian airliner shot down by Iranian security forces two years ago. Families of the 176 victims found posts with the hashtag…

Cybercrime can affect anyone who uses the internet and is digitally connected. When we talk about them, we don't just mean malware and hacking to steal your financial, personal, and other information; we also mean a wide range of online…

Technology giant Samsung Electronics expects to post a 52% jump in profit for the last three months of 2021, amid the global computer chip shortage. The world's biggest memory chip maker estimates that it made 13.8tn won…

Kosovo has banned the mining of cryptocurrencies to curb electricity use as it grapples with an energy crisis caused by soaring global prices. The government says security services will identify and clamp down on sources of…

Asus has been forced to issue a product recall after reports from some users that its motherboards were melting. Reports emerged on social media that a number of affected Z690 Hero motherboards made by the computer company were…

An evil twin attack is a spoofing cyber-attack that tricks you into connecting to a fake Wi-Fi access point that looks like a legitimate network. Hackers can access everything from a user's network traffic to private login information once…

Many vintage BlackBerry phones will stop working on Tuesday as the company turns off support for its operating system. For journalist, Bill Wilson it means the retirement of a faithful work-horse. "Is that a…

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been convicted of defrauding investors after a months-long landmark trial in California. Prosecutors said Holmes knowingly lied about technology she said could detect diseases with…

Teachers have identified a troubling new classroom trend. Students have been secretly filming clips from their classes and submitting them on Tiktok. Though it may appear harmless, teachers have highlighted that the films are frequently…

A former TikTok moderator is suing the company, claiming it failed to protect her mental health after "constant" exposure to traumatic video content. Candie Frazier says she reviewed videos that featured "extreme and…

Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it "challenged" a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug. The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for a "challenge to do".…

A Moscow court has fined Google 7.2bn roubles ($98m; £73m) for repeated failure to delete content deemed illegal in Russia. Details of the offending content were not specified in the announcement by the court's press service.…