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Sony has sent PlayStation employees a custom PlayStation 5 DualSense controller as a gift to mark the end of 2022  – and I can’t help but be jealous

Insomniac Games’ senior manager, Aaron Jason Espinoza, tweeted (opens in new tab) pictures of the redesigned DualSense controller, explaining that it was a “holiday gift” from Sony to “celebrate a fantastic 2022”.

Virtualization giant VMware has released patches for four vulnerabilities in its vRealize Log Insight product, two of which have a “critical” severity rating.

The critical pair are CVE-2022-31703 and CVE-2022-31704. The former is a directory traversal vulnerability, while the latter is a broken access control vulnerability. Both were given a 9.8 severity score, and both allow threat actors to access resources that should otherwise be inaccessible.

A new trailer has dropped for Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition’s controller-friendly port, ahead of the iconic real-time strategy classic landing on Xbox consoles and Game Pass later this month.

This incarnation of Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition not only packs in all the bells and whistles found in the existing remaster, but also includes a control scheme specially optimized for gamepads. This means that you will soon be able to enjoy Age of Empires 2 on your Xbox Series X|S or Xbox One from the comfort of your living room sofa. The latest iteration is also compatible with Games Pass’ emerging, but nonetheless impressive, browser-based cloud gaming service. 

Top Video conferencing software provider Zoom has announced a new “intelligent conversational” live chat solution powered by artificial intelligence.

In a keynote event followed by a post (opens in new tab) on the Zoom blog, the company announced Zoom Virtual Agent (opens in new tab), a chatbot designed to help businesses provide efficient customer service in a cost-effective way, by reducing handle times for human customer support staff.

Tens of thousands of WordPress websites are vulnerable to multiple high-severity flaws found in a popular plug-in, security researchers have claimed.

Experts at PatchStack discovered three vulnerabilities in LearnPress, a learning management system plugin that enables people with almost no coding knowledge to sell online courses and lessons through their WordPress websites.

Google will end its Gmail spam filtering pilot program in the US amid continuing threats from Republicans.

According to The Washington Post (opens in new tab),a recent court filing saw Google lawyers detail the plan to end the pilot program at the end of January 2023, instead of continuing with its testing and development.

Nearly half (47%) of UK businesses aren’t confident in their website’s ability to impress clients, while 92% of UK business leaders think theirs costs them up to £100,000 in sales annually.

That’s according to a new study (opens in new tab) from content management system (CMS) provider Storyblok, which surveyed 500 business leaders at “mid-sized” ecommerce companies across the US and Europe on their website’s costs and revenue performance.

Working from home often pays more than working in an office for jobs in the tech industry, new research has claimed.

HR company Remote collected data on more than six million jobs ads from 2022 from employee resource Glassdoor and found that web developer and software engineering roles had the most amount of remote opportunities compared to other professions, making up 37% and 36% of the total remote job market respectively.

If you own an iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus, you’re probably no longer in the habit of giving it software updates – but a new security update from Apple is an essential install if you want to keep your device secure.

A newly discovered vulnerability, which also affects some iPads (the iPad Air, iPad mini 2 and iPad mini 3), was recently picked up by Google’s Threat Analysis Group, potentially allowing attackers to trick affected users into visiting “maliciously crafted web content”. 

Riot Games has said it will refuse to pay a ransomware demand to regain some of its source code following a recent cyberattack.

In an update concerning this week’s incident, Riot confirmed it was an extortion attack, noting that the source code for League of Legends (LoL), Teamfight Tactics (TFT), and a legacy anticheat platform, was exfiltrated by the attackers.