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Netflix is down: Streaming service crashes for users across the UK and US
BREAKING: According to DownDetector, the Netflix issues started at around 13:56, and are affecting users in both the UK and the US
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Teen, 17, develops irreversible ‘popcorn lung& after vaping for just five months
Researchers in Canada have identified a new kind of vaping-related lung injury they believe is linked to flavourings in conventional vape pens
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Google Assistant can now book cinema tickets for you - here's how
Google has made it even easier for people with Android smartphones to book cinema tickets, thanks to a new Google Assistant feature
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Blackberry refreshes its UEM suite, focuses on zero-trust access

BlackBerry has unveiledseveral updates to its enterprise mobility security platform, offering three new UEMpeoducts aimed at enabling secure access to tools, applications and files based on a zero-trust architecture.

The trio of new suites are add-ons to BlackBerry's flagship Enterprise Mobility Suite, aimed at enhancing productivity, collaboration and workforce agility.

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The 5 true takeaways from Android's camera vulnerability circus

I don't know if you've read much news this week, but it seems the sky is falling and we're all terribly doomed.

No, I'm not talking about that news — as usual, that's another column for another publication — but rather the news that a security flaw in some Android camera apps could turn our phones into privacy-plundering spy portals and bring an end to human life as we know it.

I mean, have you seen some of these headlines?!

  • "Hundreds of millions of Android phone cameras can be hijacked by spyware"
  • "Android flaw lets rogue apps take photos, record video even if your phone is locked"
  • "An Android flaw lets apps secretly access people's cameras and upload the videos to an external server"

Holy hibiscus, Henry! Even I'm trembling from all of that, and I know it's a bunch of misguided, sensationalized hooey.

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At last, we have a description of the mysterious shutdown-blocking G— and a fix for MicrosoftG-generating bug coming in the next version of Win10, commonly called 20H1.

If you look online, you&ll see hundreds (if not thousands) of reports about Win10 shutdown getting blocked by a mysterious app called, simply, G.

g blocks shutdown Overflowbr on Bleeping Computer

Most people assume ita virus, some other sort of malware or a harbinger of doom. In fact, itnothing of the sort. Ita bug in the way Windows reports a specific kind of hang, and the bug has been fixed in the latest versions of Win10 20H1.

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