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As part of Microsoft’s cost-cutting measures in response to weakening global market conditions, the popular developer platform GitHub has laid off nearly its entire engineering team in India. According to a source with knowledge of the situation, the developer company has laid off more than a hundred workers in the …

It’s been five months since Elon Musk overpaid for Twitter, a comparatively obscure microblogging service. Due to its unmatched capacity to disseminate real-time information and make knowledge accessible, the platform had outperformed itself in terms of sheer user numbers. It might seem like the only place online that truly matters …

Microsoft unveiled Security Copilot today as part of its ongoing effort to incorporate generative AI into all of its products. This new tool promises to “summarize” and “make sense” threat intelligence. Microsoft promoted Security Copilot in a vague statement as a mechanism to correlate attack data while prioritizing security problems. …

The parent firm of TikTok, ByteDance, is pushing one of its social platforms into the Top Charts of the U.S. App Store as U.S. politicians advance with their plans for a ban or forced sale of the app. The Instagram competitor Lemon8, which is owned by ByteDance and bills itself …

Apple’s new app for classical music, Apple Music Classical, is now available for download. The app is free for everyone, but you need an Apple Music subscription. Notably, it is not available in countries like China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan and Turkey. The company said that there are more than …

Fez Delivery, a Lagos-based last-mile logistics startup with hubs across Nigeria, has raised $1 million led by pan-African investor Ventures Platform with participation from Voltron Capital, Acasia Ventures and other angel investors. Founder and CEO Seun Alley, in a statement, said the company plans to use the seed investment to …

Employees at Amazon’s cloud division, including the previous CEO of AWS, Andy Jassy, were not exempt when the company announced today that it was cutting off another 9,000 workers. According to , AWS contributed about 10% of today’s total. The business declined to corroborate such figures, citing Jassy’s memo to …

Days after the United Kingdom outlawed TikTok on official devices, New Zealand has followed suit by outlawing the short video app on parliamentary gadgets. The decision was made in response to rising security worries about ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, giving user data to the Chinese authorities. By the end …

Google’s security research division is raising the alarm about a number of holes it found in Samsung semiconductors used in many Android devices, wearable tech, and cars. They are worried that the holes will soon be found and used against Google. Tim Willis, the head of Google’s Project Zero, claimed …

Many adult entertainment websites owned by MindGeek, including Pornhub, Brazzers, and Redtube, were purchased by a Canadian private equity company, Ethical Capital Partners (ECP). The deal’s specifics were kept under wraps by ECP, which was only founded last year. With ECP’s resources and extensive expertise spanning regulatory, law enforcement, public …