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Another Outage? Botched System Change Takes Down Yahoo.com, AOL.com
Visiting the sites triggered an error that said: 'Edge: Too Many Requests.'
Miss the '90s? Now You Can Search Old-School GIFs Like a Pro
The Internet Archive's vintage GIF search engine, GifCities, now supports keyword searches and searches by dimensions.
Yahoo Mail! Joins the Generative AI Push
The longtime email service is tapping generative AI to scan and deliver summaries of important emails that otherwise might get ignored.
Forget to Use a Discount Code, Gift Card? Yahoo Mail AI Can Help (Maybe)
Yahoo Mail's Shopping Saver locates codes in your inbox and drafts emails to retailers with requests to apply those savings after you’ve made a purchase.
Yahoo Starts Laying Off 20% of Its Staff
The company has said it is laying off more than 20% of its workforce this year, meaning more than 1,600 people, mainly working in its advertising department, will be let go.
Yahoo Ceases Operations in China
China’s Personal Information Protection Law went into effect on Nov. 1 and is intended to 'curb data collection by technology companies.'
Yahoo! Answers to Shut Down on May 4
The option to download your posted content on Yahoo! Answers will remain available until June 30, after which Yahoo will delete all data on the site.
Free Yahoo Mail Accounts Lose Ability to Automatically Forward Emails on Jan. 1
Getting the feature back requires paying for a premium account.
Verizon Launches Yahoo-Branded Smartphone for $50
The product is part of Verizon's Yahoo mobile phone plan, which launched in March. Although affordable, the $50 product is also a re-skinned ZTE phone that features low-end specs.
Final Nail in the Coffin for Yahoo Groups Lands Dec. 15
A year ago, Verizon-owned Yahoo decided to dismantle most of the functions on Yahoo Groups. Now the entire platform will soon be no more.
Yahoo Small Business Websites Review
Now boasting robust ecommerce and business-building tools, Yahoo Small Business has the features you need to kickstart your online presence. The lack of blogging and image-editing tools dull its shine, however.
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Yahoo Groups Archiving Effort Blocked by Verizon
A group of volunteer archivists say Verizon has blocked their accounts from accessing pages on Yahoo Groups, which is slated to erase all posted content on Dec. 14.
Still Use Yahoo Groups? Content Will Be Deleted on Dec. 14
On Oct. 28, users will no longer be able to upload new content. All posted content will then be deleted on Dec. 14, though Yahoo Groups will still function as an email listing service.
Ex-Yahoo Engineer Abused Access to Hack 6,000 User Accounts
Reyes Daniel Ruiz pleaded guilty to using company access to help him break into thousands of Yahoo user accounts in an effort to steal sexual images and videos of young women.
The Amount of Data Exposed in Last Decade Increased Tenfold
Sensitive, protected, confidential data went from being exposed 35.7 million times in 2008 to 10 times that number in 2018. 2019 is already worse.
How to Download Your Photos Before Flickr Deletes Them
If you have more than 1,000 photos on Flickr's free tier, the company will start deleting them on March 12. Here's how to download and organize your pics before they're gone.
Hackers Beat Two-Factor Protection With Automated Phishing Attacks
A mysterious hacking group has been defeating the SMS-based two-factor authentication systems offered by Google and Yahoo in an effort to phish upwards of 1,000 people, according to the human rights group Amnesty International.
Insecure Server Puts Two-Factor, Password Data of Millions at Risk
Security researcher Sébastien Kaul found that the Voxox server, with some 26 million text messages, was wide open—no password required—and easily searchable, TechCrunch reports.
Report: AOL, Yahoo Scan User Emails, Sell Data to Advertisers
Verizon-owned Oath is pitching a service to advertisers analyzing AOL and Yahoo emails to provide targeted ad data, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Yahoo Small Business Web Hosting Review
Yahoo Small Business offers highly accessible site-building tools and solid uptime, but doesn't offer the high-end hosting tiers many businesses will want as they grow.
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