PS4 owners say malicious messages are crashing their consoles

Malicious message crashes aren’t just for smartphones, it seems. Numerous PS4 owners have reported receiving PSN messages where an unrecognized character effectively bricks their consoles, making them crash and leaving them unable to start properly. And deleting any rogue messages (typically by leaving the conversation in the PS Messages mobile app) isn’t enough by itself […]

Twitch may have exposed some users’ private messages

Some Twitch users’ private messages may have been exposed due to a bug. The streaming platform killed the messages feature in May, and gave users the chance to download an archive of their private communications. However, a glitch in the system meant that “a small percentage of user messages were included in the wrong archives,” […]

PSN DOWN: PS4 error messages and server status latest from Sony

Problems have been ongoing with the PlayStation Network for several hours. And looking at the latest outage maps, it appears to be a big one. PSN users from around the world are confirming problems using the game servers, while also revealing PS4 error messages popping up on screen. The PSN servers appear to be down […]

The Spurs had a subtle difference in their goodbye messages to Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green, and some believe it’s a petty shot at the team’s departing superstar

@Spurs / Twitter The San Antonio Spurs traded beleaguered superstar Kawhi Leonard away to the Toronto Raptors along with Danny Green in exchange for DeMar DeRozan, Jakob Poeltl, and a 2019 pick. After the deal was made official, the Spurs sent both Leonard and Green off with farewell posts from the team’s official Twitter account. Some fans on […]

Google doesn’t dispute claims that third-party developers may read your Gmail messages

ANALYSIS: Another week, another data privacy brouhaha. A Wall Street Journal report on Monday reveals that third-party developers have been reading Gmail users’ emails. According to the WSJ, a number of companies admitted their engineers have read thousands of email messages for reasons such as training machine learning systems. The controver…Read More

Apple releases macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 with Messages in iCloud support

Enlarge / macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 in the Mac App Store. (credit: Samuel Axon) Today, Apple released the latest update for macOS. High Sierra 10.13.5 primarily adds Messages in iCloud support, but it also includes some enterprise and security updates. Users of supported Macs can download and install it from the Mac App Store now. […]

Signal’s “disappearing messages” live on in macOS notifications

Enlarge / You may want to nicely ask your friends who use Signal on the Mac desktop to change their notification settings. Signal, the privacy-focused voice and text messaging application, offers an attractive bit of operational security: ephemeral text messages that “self-delete” after a predetermined amount of time. There is just one small problem, however, […]