KANE'S TECH TIPS:
SUNDAY 8th JUNE 2025
Welcome to another low down on all the latest Tech news, Tips and Tricks to help you keep up to date with the latest from the Tech world!
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Fashion Brand Cyber Attacks
Fashion brand The North Face and luxury jeweller Cartier have become the latest retailers to report having customer data stolen in cyber attacks.
North Face has emailed some customers saying it discovered a "small-scale" attack in April this year.
Cartier said "an unauthorized party gained temporary access to our system".
Both brands say data such as customers names and email addresses were taken, but financial information was not.
There has been a wave of cyber attacks on high-profile retailers in recent weeks, including Adidas, Victoria's Secret and Harrods.
Marks and Spencer (M&S) and the Co-op had their operations severely disrupted when they were targeted in April.
Read More: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39x3jpv8lyo
Source: BBC News
Welcome The First Generation of Pensioner Gamers
Companies in the East of England are preparing to welcome the first generation of pensioner gamers, more than half a century after the first home video game hit the market.
People who have grown up playing games are hungry for new, more sophisticated games, which has prompted start-ups in places including Norwich to compete with more established companies like Jagex, Ninja Theory and Frontier Developments, all based in Cambridge.
Part of the recent success is down to what he describes as the "crossover" phenomenon, with TV and film adapting video games like The Last of Us and Fallout.
Read More: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c861egvqlzjo
Source: BBC News
The Nintendo Switch 2 has been released worldwide
The Nintendo Switch 2 has been released worldwide, with stores opening at midnight so fans could get their hands on the long-awaited console the moment it became available.
Some shops have the devices available to buy off the shelf - but in most cases customers have been picking up consoles they had ordered in advance, with UK retailer Currys calling it its "biggest gaming pre-order ever."
Despite the excitement there have been some setbacks, with one supplier, Game, cancelling some pre-orders.
Read More: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgxwe774zwo
Source: BBC News
This Week In Apps
This week in apps…
ChatGPT has announced the launch of their Official IOS app. This is after months of the app store being filled with Unofficial Apps.
The new ChatGPT app will be free to use, free from ads.It will initially be limited to U.S. users at launch.
Support for other markets will be available in the “coming weeks,” OpenAI said.
🛡️ Security Corner 🛡️
Action Fraud, the national fraud and cyber crime reporting service, launched a phishing awareness campaign to urge the public to beware of phishing scams and report all emails and messages if they look suspicious.
Spam calls and suspicious text messages can be reported too.
By using 7726, a free service offered by mobile network providers, customers can forward suspicious text messages, which helps the removal of scam websites and allows networks to block users sending scam text messages.
Between April 2020 and April 2025, more than 27,000 scams were removed as a result of being reported using 7726.
