Monthly Archives: January 2024

Riot Games cuts 530 jobs, shuts down publishing arm Riot Forge

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Techme101

Riot Games is laying off about 530 employees, which represents 11% of its workforce, the Tencent-owned company announced on Monday. The League of Legends maker is also sunsetting its five-year-old publishing group, Riot Forge. Riot Games wrote two posts about … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Says State-Sponsored Attackers Accessed Senior Leaders’ Emails

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Techme101

The Midnight Blizzard gang appears to have been looking for information about itself. See how organizations can protect their accounts from password spray attacks.

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Google’s search tweaks draw fire as EU self-preferencing ban looms

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Techme101

Changes to how Google displays search results in the European Union, which the tech giant is testing ahead of a ban on self-preferencing that kicks in March 7 under the ex ante competition reform, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), have … Continue reading →

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Samsung’s self-repair program now covers 50 devices, including foldables

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Techme101

Since launching its self-repair program in August 2022, Samsung has been aggressively adding new devices to the mix. Another upgrade this week brings the current offering up to 50 products (when you factor in variants like the Plus and Ultra), … Continue reading →

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UK Tech Trends & Predictions for 2024: AI Boosts Productivity, Hiring Increases, Fintech Matures, More 5G Rollouts

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Techme101

From artificial intelligence to 5G, 2024 could be a pivotal year for the tech industry and workers in the U.K.

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OnePlus launches the OnePlus 12 series in global markets

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Techme101

OnePlus launched the OnePlus 12 series globally today, bringing an R-series device to North America and Europe for the first time. The company also launched the $99 OnePlus Buds 3 wireless buds apart from the OnePlus 12 (starting at $799) … Continue reading →

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Google’s new Gemini-powered conversational tool helps advertisers quickly build Search campaigns

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Techme101

Google announced today that Gemini, its family of multimodal large language models, now powers the conversational experience within the Google Ads platform. With this new update, it will be easier for advertisers to quickly build and scale Search ad campaigns. … Continue reading →

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Alphabet cuts ties with Australian AI firm that helped train Bard and Google Search

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Techme101

Alphabet has ended its contractual work with Appen, the artificial intelligence data firm that helped train Google’s chatbot Bard and Google Search results.

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Learn how to hit $1M in ARR from Glasswing’s Rudina Seseri at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Techme101

After securing your seed round, the race is on to scale ARR (annual recurring revenue). ARR is arguably the most critical startup metric founders need to understand and get right — especially if you’re building in the cloud. Why? It’s … Continue reading →

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US sanctions Russian citizen accused of playing key role in Medibank ransomware attack

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Techme101

The U.S. government sanctioned a Russian national for allegedly playing a “pivotal role” in the ransomware attack against Australian health insurance giant Medibank that exposed the sensitive information of almost 10 million patients. 33-year-old Alexander Ermakov, who has also been … Continue reading →

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