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The Nintendo Switch 2 has been out for less than a month, but people are starting to report some tricky hardware problems they're having.

Multiple Switch 2 players online, seemingly mostly in Japan but also elsewhere, have reported instances of their consoles overheating, per Nintendo Soup and Tom's Hardware. While some users are merely saying their Switch 2 became too warm to comfortably hold in



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AT&T has a nifty new way of ensuring that its customers don't get SIM swapped.

The telecom giant, which notably just agreed to a big settlement for huge data breaches, announced a new feature called Wireless Account Lock on its website, via TomsGuide. It's available in the myAT&T phone app for postpaid customers, and it's activated simply by hitting a toggle button. Once you toggle Wireless Account



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Starting this week, Tinder will require new users in California to verify their identity with a facial recognition scan called "Face Check," Axios reported.

Tinder's Face Check prompts users to take a video selfie when creating their profiles to ensure that their profile photos are authentic. The biometric scan is run by the software FaceTec. Once completed, users receive a photo-verified badge on


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Australian airline Qantas has confirmed a cybersecurity breach that impacts the personal data of six million customers.

On Monday, Qantas detected a cyberattack in one of its contact centers. Customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and frequent flyer numbers are among the data accessed. But credit card details, personal financial information, and passport details were not



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Microsoft is planning to cut thousands of jobs, its biggest round of layoffs in years.

The company confirmed it is going to layoff around 9,000 people — about 4 percent of its workforce — on Wednesday, according to a report from The Seattle Times. While the exact makeup of the layoffs remains unknown, The Verge reported employees in Microsoft's gaming division — folks who work on Xbox — have been


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