January 2025

According to cloud security firm Wiz, DeepSeek has secured an open database that exposed sensitive user data, including chat histories, API authentication keys, and system logs. The researchers discovered the database within minutes, as it lacked any form of authentication.

Google has revealed that it blocked 2.36 million Android apps from being published on the Play Store in 2024 due to policy violations that posed potential security risks to users.

Google has officially rolled out its new Gemini 2.0 Flash model as the default AI for all users of the Gemini app on both web and mobile. The upgraded model, first introduced in December, is significantly faster and more efficient than its predecessor, the Gemini 1.5 Pro, delivering improved performance across multiple benchmarks.

A team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has successfully recreated the core technology behind DeepSeek AI for an astonishingly low cost of just $30. Led by Ph.D. candidate Jiayi Pan, the team managed to replicate DeepSeek R1-Zero’s reinforcement learning capabilities using a small language model with just 3 billion parameters.

This year is very important for Microsoft. It is the year that the most popular Windows operating system, Windows 10, is reaching end of support. It is used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide and has a comfortable lead over its successor Windows 11.

Microsoft has announced the latest additions to its Surface lineup, unveiling new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models equipped with Intel’s powerful Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" processors.

Amazon has announced a price increase for its Music Unlimited streaming service in the US, making it the latest company to raise subscription costs. The new pricing went into effect this week for new customers, while existing subscribers will see the changes reflected in their billing cycle starting March 5, 2025.

NordVPN has introduced a new protocol, NordWhisper, which it claims can help users bypass VPN blocks in regions with restrictions. The company says NordWhisper works by mimicking regular internet traffic, making it more difficult for websites and internet service providers (ISPs) to detect and block VPN usage.

A report from the German technology company Heise suggests that some Seagate customers have purchased new hard drives that were used for tens of thousands of hours already.

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Microsoft is rolling out a major update to Windows 11's Start menu, bringing seamless integration with both Android and