Monthly Archives: June 2021

A Christmas release date for Halo: Infinite was among dozens of announcements at Microsoft’s E3 show. It was scheduled for release last year alongside the new Xbox, but was delayed due to the pandemic and amid outcry from players over its graphics. A new Forza racing game and the Xbox release of Flight Simulator were […]

Facebook will let all employees who can work away from the office do so after the Covid pandemic is over. The company has told employees “anyone whose role can be done remotely can request remote work”. Rival big tech firms Apple and Google have recently reversed pandemic working conditions, telling staff to return to the […]

A major internet blackout that hit many high-profile websites on Tuesday has been blamed on a software bug. Fastly, the cloud-computing company responsible for the issues, said the bug had been triggered when one of its customers had changed their settings. The outage has raised questions about relying on a handful of companies to run […]

A photographer has launched legal action against gamemaker Capcom, accusing it of using dozens of her images without permission. Judy Juracek claims Capcom used photographed patterns from a published book throughout its games – including Resident Evil and Devil My Cry. In one example listed in court documents, she alleged the Resident Evil 4 logo […]

Apple device users will now be able see when individual apps request to access features such as the microphone, camera and phone gallery, plus which third parties they have connected with in the last seven days. The new “app privacy report” feature was unveiled at the firm’s annual developers’ conference, WWDC. Apple has prioritised privacy […]

A social media account for popular Chinese e-commerce app Xiaohongshu has been blocked after it issued a post on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. It had posted “Tell me loudly: what’s the date today?” on microblogging platform Weibo. The post to its 14 million followers was swiftly deleted. Its Weibo page has […]

The government is proceeding with the creation of a central store of data from GP records in England next month, despite the NHS suggesting a delay. The data is moving to a central NHS Digital database, with the Department of Health saying it expects GPs to introduce the system from 1 July. The NHS wanted […]

Twitter is launching its new subscription service, Twitter Blue, in Australia and Canada on Thursday. The paid-for extra service will add features such as an “undo tweet” button, bookmarks, and a reader mode, Twitter said. The limited launch is designed to “gain a deeper understanding” of what customers are looking for. But the company also […]

A Russian cyber-criminal group was behind a ransomware attack that has targeted the world’s largest meat processing company, the FBI has said. The FBI said it would was working to bring the REvil group to justice for the hack on JBS. The cyber-breach over the weekend shut some JBS operations in the US, Canada and […]

An update of HarmonyOS, the operating system developed by Huawei, means it will now be installed in a wider range of products, including its smartphones. It is due to roll out across Asia following a launch event on 2 June. There is no date for a global launch yet. A trade ban imposed by the […]