Latest articles by Rene Ritchie
Vector 31: Facebook, WhatsApp, and the value of mobile messaging
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Nokia announces MD-12 Bluetooth speaker in a variety of awesome colors
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Nokia launches 'DVLUP Status,' a way to give developers recognition for their app achievements
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Microsoft announces Windows 8.1 Update 1 with mouse-and-keyboard friendly tweaks
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Microsoft has made Windows 8.1 Update 1 official! Straight from Build 2014 the spring refresh brings with it a bunch of new features that'll appeal to traditional and modern users alike.
Microsoft issues warning about limited, targeted attack vulnerability in Internet Explorer
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#EFAIL vulnerability: What PGP and S/MIME users need to do right now
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Security researchers will be publishing what they claim are critical vulnerabilities in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption on May 15. In the meantime, EFF advises you disable PGP email clients. GPUPG offers different advice.
.NET open-sourcing: A Microsoft decision over three years in the making
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Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram — down, down, down
By Rene Ritchie published
All of Facebook — including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp — appear to be having major server problems at the moment. So no, you're not alone!
Twitter finally details new API, screws third-party apps — again
By Rene Ritchie published
Twitter has finally announced details for it’s new Account Activity API, which replaces the Streaming API third-party clients have relied on up until now — and the news isn’t good.
Favstar Destroyer: Twitter API hostility claims another service
By Rene Ritchie published
Favstar, a popular service for seeing which of your tweets were the most loved and discovering other popular tweets, will be shutting down on June 19, 2018. Because, Twitter.
Uber covered up a hack that compromised 57 million accounts
By Rene Ritchie published
Uber was hacked. 50 million rider accounts were accessed. 7 million driver accounts as well. And Uber paid $100,000 to cover it all up.
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are down. Are you affected?
By Rene Ritchie last updated
Facebook and its related networks, Instagram and Whatsapp, experienced an outage that prevented some users from accessing either the entire service or some functionality within the service.
Slack planning voice and video chat, upping threat to Hangouts, Skype
By Rene Ritchie published
Slack plans to roll out voice and video chat this year, making the popular messaging company even more competitive with incumbents like Microsoft's Skype and Google's Hangouts.
ZEN & TECH 57: From NSA to cameras everywhere: Coping with privacy violations
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Facebook and Instagram experience denial of service attack, outage [Update: Restored!]
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