March 12, 2020

Firefox 74 offers privacy and security updates

A month after shipping version 73 of its Firefox browser, Mozilla has released version 74 with a range of privacy and security enhancements.

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January 23, 2020

Sonos’s tone-deaf legacy product policy angers customers

Stopping software updates for legacy kit is nothing new, but it's the way the company has done it that has Sonos customers' hackles up.

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January 17, 2020

Oracle’s January 2020 update patches 334 security flaws

The January 2020 update featured a joint record of 334 patches, matching an identical number released in July 2018.

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November 01, 2019

Apple props up macOS Catalina with 10.15.1 update

A vocal minority of the committed Apple base has been quick to express dissatisfaction at the move to Catalina from macOS 10.14 Mojave.

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November 27, 2018

Microsoft patches Patch Tuesday’s Outlook 2010 problem patch

Just weeks after issuing a Windows 10 patch of doom that started deleting users’ precious files, Microsoft ‘fixed’ Outlook 2010 with a November Patch Tuesday update that promptly borked it.

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September 19, 2018

iOS 12 is here: these are the security features you need to know about

One year to the day after iOS 11 appeared, Apple yesterday released its replacement, iOS 12.

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May 11, 2016

Mobile security updates are a mess. The FCC and FTC want to know why.

The FCC and FTC are investigating the mobile industry's practices for shipping updates to patch security vulnerabilities in mobile devices.

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March 21, 2016

Amazon: update your old Kindles or you’ll be cut off from the store

If you don't get the update on or before Tuesday, 22 March 2016, you'll be blocked from accessing the Kindle Store and downloading e-books.

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October 15, 2015

87% of Android devices are exposed to at least one critical vulnerability

University of Cambridge researchers find that the Android ecosystem is a "market for lemons," with 87% of devices unpatched against at least one known critical vulnerability.

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