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Law firm sets up effort to investigate cracks in M1 MacBook screens that may occur following normal use

If your M1 MacBook display has experienced cracks, there might be an investigation shaping up to help resolve the issue. The law firm of Migliaccio & Rathod LLP has announced an investigation into Apple over reports from users that their M1 MacBook displays have cracked during normal usage. To this end, a number of users have […]

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FCC investigation finds that “one or more” wireless carriers may have sold user location data to questionable third-parties

This’ll make you groan a bit. Following last year’s findings as to how easy it was for outside parties to buy real-time location data of US wireless customers via lax carrier standards, it was noted that data was winding up in the hands of shady third-parties, and bounty hunters. Now, after what it described as […]

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Samsung completes internal investigation, finds battery issues caused Galaxy Note 7 overheating/fires

Samsung has completed its internal investigation and has noted that the battery- and not any faults in software or other hardware – was to blame for the fires that led to the recall and ultimate cancellation of the Galaxy Note 7. The company was able to successfully reproduce the fires during the course of its […]

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Yahoo discloses details of August 2013 hack, says more than one billion accounts compromised in effort

It doesn’t look good when half a billion of your company’s email accounts are hacked. And it looks a bit worse when a cool billion of them in total were hacked. Yahoo on Wednesday announced that it believes more than one billion Yahoo user accounts were compromised in a hack by an unauthorized third party […]

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Yahoo confirms hack, roughly 500 million email accounts breached

In the annals of hacks and breaches, this is pretty epic. Yahoo confirmed on Thursday data “associated with at least 500 million user accounts” have been stolen in what may be one of the largest cybersecurity breaches ever. The company said it believes a “state-sponsored actor” was behind the data breach, meaning an individual acting […]