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1 week ago | 
cybernews.com | Niamh Ancell
Spotify is supposedly down in the US and UK as users struggle to listen to their favourite tracks. According to Downdetector, roughly 14,000 users in the United States have reported issues with Spotify’s app. And it’s not only the US experiencing issues. Around 4,000 users in the United Kingdom are also having trouble accessing the app.
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1 week ago | 
cybernews.com | Niamh Ancell
A 19-year-old from New Zealand has died after playing a viral social media game where people are made to collide at full force with other players. Local media identified the teen as Ryan Satterthwaite, who died in hospital after playing the viral social media game "run it straight."Satterthwaite was taken to hospital on Monday after playing the game with friends in Palmerston North.
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1 week ago | 
cybernews.com | Niamh Ancell
Kesha, famous for her track “TikTok,” has entered the tech world after announcing that her new platform will help musicians take control of their futures. Pop princess Kesha has announced the Smash platform, which has been described as a LinkedIn platform for musicians.
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1 week ago | 
cybernews.com | Niamh Ancell
The first-ever humanoid robot fighting tournament has kicked off in China, with Unitree robots showcasing the rapid advancement in robotics. In Hangzhou, China, robots were gearing up to battle it out in the world's first humanoid robot fighting competition. The humanoid robots, developed by Unitree Robotics, a Chinese robotics company based in the city, were seen throwing dynamic and fluid punches in the ring.
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1 week ago | 
cybernews.com | Niamh Ancell
Fellow musician Jason Derulo posted a photo of Chris Brown attending Rihanna and ASAP Rocky’s gender reveal party. But the situation is not as straightforward as it seems. A strange image of artists Rihanna, ASAP Rocky, and Chris Brown has gone viral on social media. The image shows musician Chris Brown holding a gift for pop star Rihanna and rapper ASAP Rocky in a room full of people documenting the whole thing.
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2 weeks ago | 
cybernews.com | Niamh Ancell
Marlboro-Chesterfield Pathology (MCP), a full-service anatomic pathology laboratory, has suffered a data breach, which resulted in threat actors stealing sensitive patient records. MCP wrote in a breach notification that on or around January 16th, 2025, the pathology lab experienced unauthorized activity within its IT systems. The lab investigated, employing third-party specialists, and found that threat actors had accessed its systems, stealing sensitive records.
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2 weeks ago | 
cybernews.com | Niamh Ancell
Ratings for Elon Musk’s companies, Tesla, X (formerly Twitter), and SpaceX, have tanked amid growing discontent with Musk’s involvement in the US government. Elon Musk’s companies have seen a rapid decline in reputation over the past couple of years, which has been accelerated by Musk’s public alignment with the Trump administration. The Axios Harris poll rated most of Musk’s companies "poor,” with one of his companies receiving a “very poor” rating.
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2 weeks ago | 
cybernews.com | Niamh Ancell
The American performers' union SAG-AFTRA has filed a charge against Fortnite subsidiary Llama Productions over unfair labor practices after the company replicated this iconic actor’s voice using artificial intelligence (AI). The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has filed an unfair labor charge against Llama Productions for replicating the voice of James Earl Jones in Fortnite, who voiced the iconic Star Wars character, Darth Vader.
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2 weeks ago | 
cybernews.com | Niamh Ancell
Technology continues to fool the public and social media goers by generating images of celebrities at events they didn’t even attend. Artist and musician Billie Eilish responded to the backlash she received for her outfit at this year's Met Gala, which happened earlier this month.
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2 weeks ago | 
cybernews.com | Niamh Ancell
Serviceaide, a software development company, has inadvertently leaked the sensitive information of over 480,000 Catholic Health patients. In November last year, Serviceaide discovered that information they managed and stored for a US healthcare provider, Catholic Health, had been “inadvertently made publicly available.” Upon finding out that Catholic Health’s Elasticsearch database was leaked to the public, Serviceaide said they took steps to secure it and initiated an investigation.
