Apple has been forced to recall up to 1 million 15in MacBook Pros sold between 2015 and 2017 due to the risk of defective batteries overheating and causing fires.

Open source company Red Hat - soon to become an IBM subsidiary - has recorded an increase of 15% in its revenue year-on-year for the first quarter of the 2020 fiscal year which ended on 31 May.

The chairman of the board of auDA, Chris Leptos, has quit his post, but the organisation, which oversees the Australian domain namespace, has given no reason for the sudden departure.

A well-known attack group that is known as Turla, Snake or Waterbug appears to have hijacked and used the infrastructure of another similar group, known as OilRig, APT34 or Crambus, the American security firm Symantec claims.

Norway-based Vivaldi Technologies has released the latest version of its browser of the same name, with the main new feature being functionality to block advertisements that use abusive technologies and intend to mislead the user.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company ownCloud has released a new version of its mobile app for Android, which it says provides more options for accessing and organising files stored in ownCloud accounts.

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