News & Reviews:   Yahoo

Yahoo has now announced that it is adding support for artificial intelligence-powered search results and answers to its search engine, through a feature called Yahoo Scout. So, what should you know about it?

Yahoo today appears to have sold one of its technology sites, TechCrunch, to an investment firm, called Regent. The sale price has not been disclosed at this time. So, what should you know about it?

Previously, we reported that Steam, Epic Games, Reddit and various other websites and online services have been blocked in Indonesia because they didn’t comply with a new law to have a Penyelenggara Sistem Elektronik (PSE) permit. Now, gamers in the country (well, at least games on Steam) can breath a sigh of relief as Steam is now operational again in Indonesia after the gaming platform complied with the new law.

It seems that Yahoo has recently unveiled the Yahoo Lite app which can be downloaded via the Google Play Store starting from today onwards. The difference between the base app compared to the Lite is that the latter only takes up 1MB of space while maintaining the core functionality of the app.

Are you surprised that Yahoo is still around? Well, they are still here to stay but it was officially announced that Yahoo Groups will shut down on 15 December 2020. Verizon, an American telco that bought the company three years ago, is also planning to take down groups.yahoo.com website offline for real and for good.

There was news a few months ago that a large scale hacking event transpired involving Yahoo accounts, which amounted to about half a million different accounts. Now a new report has surfaced, stating that the data breech is bigger than expected. A further 1 billion accounts was compromised, on top of the previous number of account.

Information compromised may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and there’s a possibility that some security questions and answers were also compromised. Yahoo believes the reason for the breach was that a hacker was able to figure out how to forge cookies to gain access to these accounts. Yahoo already started to email affected customers on this matter, and have taken steps to rectify this issue.