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Yahoo bought AI-powered news app Artifact from Instagram’s co-founders
Yahoo has bought Artifact, an AI-powered news recommendation app from Instagram's co-founders. The app will no longer be a standalone service and its tech will be folded into products including Yahoo News.
New York’s governor signs watered-down right-to-repair bill
New York's right-to-repair rules will will only apply to new consumer products sold after July 1st. Other concessions were made following pressure from tech industry lobbyists.
Yahoo Mail app update makes it easier to manage receipts and track deliveries
Yahoo has launched its Mail app with a number of updates designed to help users track receipts, gift cards and "free trial" subscriptions
Indonesia restores access to PayPal, Yahoo and Valve services
The country blocked several platforms that failed to register with a government database on time.
Indonesia blocks Steam, PayPal and other services over missed regulatory deadline
Indonesia is blocking residents from accessing various online platforms after those services failed to comply with a July 29th regulatory deadline.
NFL commissioner says the league's own streaming service will launch ahead of the 2022 season
Roger Goodell also believes NFL Sunday Ticket will be moving to a streaming platform.
Google is trying to keep political campaign emails out of Gmail spam folders
It plans to make eligible messages exempt from spam filters.
The NFL's rumored streaming service could debut in July
Reports suggest 'NFL+' will include some live games, but pricing hasn't been locked down.
Hitting the Books: Raytheon, Yahoo Finance and the rise of the 'cybersmear' lawsuit
That time Raytheon subpoenaed Yahoo! to get it to give up the names of three anonymous Y! Finance message board users so it could sue them too.
Twitter buys a chat app to boost DMs and community features
Twitter has bought the chat app Sphere to bolster its DMs — including some high-profile talent.
Yahoo is building a new calendar app with help from the creator of Sunrise
Yahoo has recruited Jeremy Le Van, one of the co-founders of Sunrise, to help design its new Day calendar app.
House representatives sent a letter to Yahoo's CEO... from 2017
House representatives have sent a letter to a Yahoo CEO who hasn't worked at the company for four years.
Yahoo launches its own unlimited data plan for $40 a month
Yahoo was a bastion of the early days of mainstream internet, but is it really relevant anymore? It's no secret that its popularity has waned in recent times, so in what is presumably a bid to bring itself back to the fore, it's branching out to the mobile business. Yahoo Mobile will tout unlimited texts, calls and 4G data, all for the flat fee of $40 a month.
Flickr owner: We need more paying subscribers to keep this going
It looks like Flickr needs more paying members to continue existing. Don MacAskill, the CEO of SmugMug, which purchased the photo repository from Verizon-owned Yahoo last year, is asking users for help. "...Flickr -- the world's most-beloved, money-losing business --... needs your help," he wrote in separate emails sent to free and Pro members.
Yahoo is shutting down its Groups website and deleting all content
Yahoo (owned by Engadget's parent company Verizon) is phasing out one its longest-standing features. The internet pioneer is closing the Yahoo Groups website in a two-phase process that will effectively see it disappear. You'll lose the ability to post new content on October 28th, and Yahoo will delete all "previously posted" material on December 14th. Users can still connect to their groups through email, but the site will effectively be vacant. All groups will be made private and require an administrator's approval.
Former Yahoo engineer hacked 6,000 accounts in search of sexual content
A former Yahoo engineer pleaded guilty to hacking into roughly 6,000 accounts in search of sexual photos and videos. According to court documents, Reyes Daniel Ruiz, 34, used his employee access to Yahoo's internal network to crack users' passwords. He then downloaded explicit photos and videos to a personal hard drive, which he stored at home.
Yahoo’s redesigned Mail app aims to bring order to your inbox
The way we use email has changed a lot over the years, evolving from person-to-person communications to an all-in-one depository for newsletters, coupons, travel receipts and (a lot of) miscellaneous junk. This can lead to an overwhelmingly messy inbox, making it that much harder to find that e-ticket right before the concert. Yahoo Mail's revamped app, however, hopes to change that with an approach that prioritizes organization and avoid email overload (Full disclosure: Yahoo's parent company is Verizon, which is the same as Engadget's).
TrickBot malware may have hacked 250 million email accounts
TrickBot malware may have stolen as many as 250 million email accounts, including some belonging to governments in the US, UK and Canada. The malware isn't new. In fact, it's been circulating since 2016. But according to cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct, it has started harvesting email credentials and contacts. The researchers are calling this new approach TrickBooster, and they say it first hijacks accounts to send malicious spam emails and then deletes the sent messages from both the outbox and trash folders.
Verizon is trying to sell off Tumblr
Just two years after taking control of Tumblr as part of its acquisition of Yahoo, Verizon is looking to offload the blogging platform. According to the Wall Street Journal, the telecommunications giant has spent that last few weeks approaching other companies to gauge their interest in purchasing Tumblr. While the search is ongoing, the report notes that it may not result in any transaction.
Yahoo could pay $117.5 million to settle data breach
Yahoo is back in the courtroom with a revised settlement proposal meant to make amends for its massive data breaches. If this proposal is approved, the company will pay $117.5 million.
