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Just like many other tech companies, Microsoft wanted in on the digital assistant market and launched Cortana several years ago. Suffice to say that unlike other digital assistants like Google Assistant or Alexa, Cortana has not gained the same level of traction or use, despite them having launched it on platforms like iOS and Android.

This is why it doesn’t really come as a surprise to learn that Microsoft has since announced that they will be shutting down the Cortana apps on both iOS and Android. According to Microsoft, “As we make this shift toward a transformational AI-powered assistant experience in Microsoft 365, we need to adjust our focus areas of innovation and development to give our customers assistance where they need it most. As a result, we are making changes to some U.S. consumer-centric features and functionalities with lower usage.”

This doesn’t mean that Microsoft is done with Cortana or that they are killing it off entirely. Instead Cortana will continue to live on within iOS and Android, but it will live on by being integrated within Microsoft’s 365 apps, so if you really have to use Cortana, you’ll still be able to access it within these apps.

Support for third-party Cortana skills will be deprecated on the 7th of September, while support for the main app will come to an end in early 2021.

Microsoft Shuts Down Cortana For iOS And Android

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A couple of weeks ago, several high profile Twitter accounts were compromised in which they were taken over and then used to post a bitcoin scam. Given that these were very public profiles which included the likes of Apple, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and so on, it managed to gain quite a bit of traction with some Twitter users falling for it.

It was suggested that this could have been an internal job where a Twitter employee could have given the hacker(s) access to internal Twitter tools, which allowed these accounts to be quickly and easily accessed. That being said, it looks like things are finally wrapping up as a 17-year old teen from Tampa, Florida, has since been arrested and has also been accused of masterminding the whole attack.

In a statement made to WFLA, State Attorney Andrew Warren said, “I want to congratulate our federal law enforcement partners – the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, the FBI, the IRS, and the Secret Service – as well as the Florida Department of Law enforcement. They worked quickly to investigate and identify the perpetrator of a sophisticated and extensive fraud.”

Twitter has also since reassured users that despite these accounts having been taken over that no passwords were compromised as a result, although it seems that the direct message inbox of at least 36 accounts were also accessed during the attack.

17-Year Old Arrested Over Twitter Hacks

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