January 2019

German competition authorities have approved the cooperation between Eyeo and Google. The authorities were investigating Eyeo's agreement with Google to whitelist Google's ads, as it was detrimental to Eyeo.The German Bundeskartellamt has…

The final release of foobar2000 version 1.4.2 has been released. This popular, lightweight music player supports MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, Flac, WAV and WMA, among others, and has support for Replay Gain. Furthermore, the player can…

It's been exactly twenty years today since the first Super Smash Bros. game was released in Japan for the Nintendo 64. What started as a small title has grown into one of the best-known crossover franchises in the world.The development of…

HP has expanded a massive recall from a year ago to include more laptop models. Some batteries in these laptops can overheat and pose a fire and burn hazard.Last year's recall has expanded to include five laptops in the ProBook 4xx G4…

TP Vision has announced the first products it will release under the brand name 'Philips Audio'. This primarily concerns smaller products, such as Bluetooth speakers. More products will follow later this year.This week, TP Vision will…

WhatsApp will limit the maximum number of receiving chats of a forwarded message to five worldwide. This is to inhibit the spread of disinformation and rumours. Previously, the limit was still 20 receiving chats.According to WhatsApp's…

Ubiquiti has released new firmware for its Cloud Key and CloudKey Gen2 (Plus). The version number is fixed at 0.12.2 for the first generation and 0.8.10 for the second generation. These are compact devices on which UniFi Controller runs,…

The package OPNsense is a firewall with extensive possibilities. It is based on the FreeBSD operating system and is originally a fork of m0n0wall and pfSense. The package can be set up completely via a web interface and has support for…

A security researcher has found an rce vulnerability in the ThreadX firmware, which the developer says is used in more than six billion devices, including the Wi-Fi chips of the Surface, Galaxy J1, Steam Link, PS4 and Xbox One. A fix is…

Blizzard is looking for 19 new employees to participate in an unannounced Diablo game. This is not Diablo: Immortal, which is listed separately in the list of vacancies.Blizzard seems to be looking to expand the team working on a new…