It’s been a bad few days for a variety of companies such as Bell Canada who’s Internet offering wend down twice in a week, and Garmin who had an outage yesterday. Now it’s Reddit’s turn:
As usual, there’s been nothing from the company on this acknowledging the outage or when things will be back online. So I guess Reddit users will just have to wait this one out.
UPDATE: It seems that whatever happened was brief and things are back online again.
Hisense has once again placed first in key display technology categories, according to Q1 2025 data from Omdia.
The industry research firm’s report indicates Hisense led worldwide in MiniLED TVs, the 100-inch and over TV segment and Laser TVs, underscoring the company’s significant market presence.
Hisense led the 100-inch+ TV market with an impressive 56.7 per cent global volume share, extending its No. 1 ranking from 2023 and 2024 into Q1 2025. In the MiniLED TV segment, Hisense rose to the top with a significant 29.3 per cent share, reflecting rapid growth and strong consumer trust in its innovative backlight technology. Furthermore, Hisense retained its commanding lead in the Laser TV market, boasting a 69.6 per cent share and continuing its global dominance for a remarkable six consecutive years, according to the Omdia data.
This strong market performance reflects Hisense’s long-term commitment to large-screen innovation, AI-powered imaging and delivering immersive audio-visual experiences. Reinforcing its visibility on the international stage, Hisense recently launched the “Own the Moment” campaign as part of its global sponsorship of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025™. This initiative seamlessly aligns Hisense’s cutting-edge technology with the passion of global sports audiences.
Additionally, Hisense recently announced a partnership with French audio expert Devialet to enhance sound performance across its latest products, promising a richer and more immersive home entertainment experience. These audio enhancements will be available via software update, with availability depending on specific models and regions.
With a steadfast commitment to technological excellence and delivering exceptional user value, Hisense is poised not just to maintain, but to redefine the home entertainment landscape in 2025 and beyond.
In a time when algorithms are shaping everything from trends to tastes, social media feeds shape what users watch, think and even care about. TikTok knows that, and it’s making the For You experience more personal than ever.
Starting today, TikTok is rolling out the latest updates that build on its existing tools and safeguards, making the For You experience more relevant, empowering, and transparent:
These build on TikTok’s existing suite of tools and safeguards, from “Why this video” explanations and the option to “refresh” a FYP, to restrictions that limit repetitive or age-sensitive content.
You can find out more details here.
Cybernews researchers have uncovered a major data breach involving the US-based dental marketing firm Gargle with a company leaking around 2.7 million patient profiles and 8.8 million appointment records online.
Key findings:
What data was leaked?
What are the potential dangers of this leak?
The leaked database includes highly sensitive patient details. When combined, this information creates a full blueprint of a person’s identity — opening the door to insurance fraud, medical identity theft, and highly targeted phishing and social engineering attacks.
To read the full research report, please click here.
Specops Software, an Outpost24 company and leading provider of password and identity management solutions, has announced that its Specops Secure Service Desk for Cloud now supports native Entra ID, including on-premises and hybrid, enabling cloud-based organizations to verify the identity of callers to the service desk using stronger authentication methods that minimize the risk for user impersonation. Currently Microsoft does not offer built-in identity verification for users contacting the service desk. Specops Secure Service Desk solves this problem by verifying users when they contact the service desk, now including cloud-only environments.
In recent months, many high-profile organizations, including British retailer Marks and Spencers (M&S), have been targeted in sophisticated social engineering attacks that specifically target service desk agents. The “Scattered Spider” threat group, thought to be behind the attack on M&S, as well as the 2023 MGM Resorts hack, has repeatedly demonstrated that the service desk is a prime social engineering target that can cause a lot of disruption for organizations. The M&S attack, for example, is thought to have led to an estimated $402 million profit hit for the retailer, with some customer data stolen. As a result, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has specifically urged organizations to review and harden their help-desk password reset workflows to stop similar manipulations before they can escalate into full-blown ransomware or extortion events, with other government cyber organizations globally likely to follow suit.
Verifying the identity of callers to the service desk is just as critical for cloud-only customers as it is for on-prem organizations. An organization’s service desk agents need reliable tools to verify the ID of callers, for the following reasons:
About Specops Secure Service Desk
Specops Secure Service Desk enables customers to increase their service desk security with stronger authentication methods that minimize the risk for user impersonation. Identity verification options range from mobile or email verification codes, to commercial authentication providers such as Duo Security, Okta, Symantec VIP, PingID and YubiKey. These authentication options are paired with technical enforcement of the ID verification, blocking agents from proceeding with the caller’s request until authentication through the platform is completed. Secure Service Desk also integrates with a multitude of ID services and other service desk systems, such as ServiceNow and Jira.
Specops Secure Service Desk is available to Entra ID only organizations (or those planning to move there soon), as well as on-prem and hybrid organizations, today. For more information, visit: https://specopssoft.com/blog/secure-service-desk-for-cloud
Comparitech researchers have released the May 2025 ransomware roundup. According to the findings, May was the quietest month this year so far with 457 in total attacks claimed by ransomware groups–down from 494 in April and about half February’s vast figure of 980.
The research dives into the number of attacks, industries impacted, as well as the most prolific gangs.
Key findings include:
For full details, the report can be found here: https://www.comparitech.com/news/ransomware-roundup-may-2025/
SOCRadar, a global leader in extended threat intelligence and cybersecurity, announced an expansion of its MSSP program to help partners scale operations, automate threat workflows, and improve service delivery. As part of its program, SOCRadar is now offering free AI Agent and Automation Training to educate partners about AI agents and GenAI technologies to help streamline their SOC, threat intelligence and vulnerability management processes. Platform-agnostic, the training equips MSSP partners with hands-on skills to build their own AI-powered workflows regardless of the tools they currently use.
Additional program enhancements include multi-tenant licensing, MSSP-specific threat intelligence use cases, a Multi-Tenant Management Console, and customizable External Threat Assessment Reports. The expanded program was officially launched at Infosecurity Europe.
SOCRadar’s AI agents are intelligent automation components embedded in its Extended Threat Intelligence (XTI) platform. These agents use Large Language Models (LLMs) and automation scripts to perform complex, multi-step cybersecurity workflows. Unlike traditional scripts or static rules, SOCRadar’s AI agents can dynamically analyze data, make contextual decisions, and execute actions across multiple systems—reducing analyst workload while increasing speed and accuracy. MSSPs can create “smart workflows” by defining goals and guardrails for each agent. The agents then use planning, reasoning, and learning techniques to carry out tasks such as threat detection, enrichment, alert correlation, or vulnerability prioritization.
Key Benefits of SOCRadar’s Framework for MSSPs include:
Presentations without PowerPoint: Chronicle’s AI agent for presentations emerges from stealth with 100,000 waitlisted users and a mission to revolutionize how ideas are visualized and shared. Referred by many of its users as ‘Cursor for Presentations’, Chronicle’s bold mission is to reinvent storytelling by having AI and world-class design co-create your next presentation. In a world where both traditional slide decks and first-generation AI presentation tools have disappointed with boring, powerless, and tasteless outputs, Chronicle promises a new reality where quality is the focus. Chronicle helps you craft stunning, impactful presentations in minutes, not hours.
AI-Powered Storytelling Meets Refined Taste
Chronicle is more than just slides. It’s an intelligent agent that collaborates with you on messaging, design execution, and narrative flow. Unlike traditional tools that merely put out generic AI generated content, Chronicle is like a brainstorming partner and master designer working on your narrative and visuals. Think Steve Jobs designing your presentation for you.
Chronicle handles the heavy lifting of conducting deep research, distilling key insights, and ensuring every element strengthens your narrative. This empowers anyone to create presentations with the depth and polish that typically requires years of expertise.
Chronicle’s design philosophy flips the traditional presentation paradigm. By understanding what’s needed to make your story visually compelling, it considers elements such as typography, spacing, visual hierarchy, and motion, all working seamlessly in the background.
The result is a presentation that feels hand-crafted by a professional designer and storyteller. Chronicle aims to deliver on the decades-old promise of accessible, elevated storytelling by combining the speed of AI with a profound understanding of what makes presentations truly compelling.
Chronicle gives you tools to guide focus – for the first time ever
Many tools are just about how your slides look, but truly extraordinary presentations hinge on your ability to direct audience attention, especially in a world of depleted attention spans.
Chronicle considers this as part of its mission and brings a new level of interactivity and engagement by giving presenters superpowers like Peek and Deep Hover. These experiences allow users to manipulate focus like a pro: zoom in, highlight, isolate, or focus, ensuring that viewers stay engaged with exactly what matters most.
Founders with a Vision (and Frustration)
Chronicle was founded by two self-proclaimed “presentation nerds,” Mayuresh Patole and Tejas Gawande. Their journey began at IIT Bombay, where Mayuresh earned recognition for transforming standard PowerPoint into something unrecognizable. His classmates often approached after presentations to ask which specialized software he was using, not realizing it was PowerPoint beneath his creative hacks.
Meanwhile, Tejas used his background in growth and social media to identify the shifting landscape of information consumption.
Together, they set out to create a platform aimed at eliminating the PowerPoint pain they experienced firsthand. Following a USD 7.5 million seed round led by Accel and Square Peg in 2023, Chronicle has continued to refine its product with input from a select group of beta users. Many have swapped their existing presentation tools for Chronicle for critical meetings and speaking opportunities. The consensus: Chronicle makes presentations beautiful and enjoyable, words seldom associated with PowerPoint.
Try Chronicle – Your Next Presentation Will Never Be the Same
Today, Chronicle enters public beta and is open for anyone to try. Chronicle welcomes everyone, from design novices to seasoned professionals, from startup founders to corporate executives, all united by the need to communicate powerfully without wrestling with complex software or hiring expensive design teams.
Chronicle’s free beta is available today at chroniclehq.com. Simply sign up and try it for your next big presentation. Chronicle will handle the rest.
Over the course of their journey, the founders have attracted some of the most prominent thought leaders mapping out the future of work from organizations such as Apple, Google, Slack, Stripe, Superhuman, OnDeck, and Adobe. Chronicle is a fully remote team of 10, operating across the US, India, and Australia.
SIOS Technology Corp today announced a new distribution agreement with Climb Channel Solutions, an international specialty technology distributor and wholly owned subsidiary of Climb Global Solutions, Inc. This partnership will enable Climb to distribute SIOS DataKeeper and SIOS LifeKeeper products to its extensive network of reseller partners across the Americas region.
SIOS delivers innovative high availability and disaster recovery solutions that protect critical applications from downtime and data loss. SIOS LifeKeeper provides automated failover clustering, ensuring continuous operation of essential applications, while SIOS DataKeeper offers real-time replication for high availability and disaster recovery in both cloud and on-premises environments. Together, these solutions help businesses maintain uptime, safeguard data integrity, and achieve seamless business continuity.
For more information about SIOS Technology and its high availability solutions, visit www.us.sios.com. To learn more about Climb Channel Solutions, visit www.ClimbCS.com.
TELUS #StandWithOwners contest returns, investing over $1 million into Canadian small businesses
Posted in Commentary with tags Telus on June 3, 2025 by itnerdTELUS’ #StandWithOwners contest is returning for its sixth consecutive year, with over $1 million in prizing and rewards, continuing its support for Canadian small businesses that form the backbone of the nation’s economy. TELUS is committed to supporting and recognizing the critical role small business owners play in fueling innovation, driving economic growth, and creating a positive impact in our communities.
Starting today, small business owners can apply at telus.com/StandWithOwners until September 3, 2025, to win one of five grand prize packages valued at over $200,000 each. Prizes include $75,000 in direct funding, $80,000 in advertising and business exposure, $35,000 in TELUS technology along with a Samsung technology package, and $10,000 in TELUS Health wellbeing support. Beyond the grand prizes, 15 finalists will receive $20,000 in funding and technology, while 15 more businesses will gain nationwide exposure through TELUS’ social media channels.
This year, TELUS is celebrating the entrepreneurs who have made it in Canada. The innovators who built their dream and found their team here. The leaders who grew their idea and blazed a path – transforming passion into success.
TELUS is seeking applicants that demonstrate how they’ve used innovation and technology to stand out from their peers while growing their business, and how their team and support network help contribute to their success. Additionally, applicants will be asked to show how the success of their business has made a meaningful impact on their local economy and community.
Since 2020, TELUS has committed over $6 million through #StandWithOwners, providing funding, technology and exposure to Canadian businesses. For more information and to apply by September 3, 2025, visit telus.com/StandWithOwners.
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