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Yahoo! Japan! offers! free! comment!-moderation!-as!-a!-service! API!

'Constructive comment ranking model' can detect bias, promote respectful contributions, already zaps 20,000 posts a day

AI + ML19 May 2021 | 13

Yahoo! and! AOL! sold! for! $5bn! as! Verizon! abandons! media! empire! dreams!

They! may! take! the! exclamation! point! but! they! will! never! take! our! headlines!

Networks03 May 2021 | 33

Yahoo! Answers! will! be! wiped! from! the! internet! next! month!

Now we'll never know how babby is formed

Personal Tech05 Apr 2021 | 26

Sloppy data compliance sees Japanese government cut out its own use of LINE messaging app

May! crush! super-app! dreams! of! the! company! formerly! known! as! Yahoo! Japan!

Personal Tech22 Mar 2021 | 7

Yahoo! owes! us! one! billion! dollars! in! back! taxes! say! US! govt! beancounters!

IRS willing to settle for a seventh of what it asked for - it's nice to be rich

On-Prem17 Jun 2020 | 7

Yahoo! hack! payout! nearly! approved! and! the! question! is! how! to! spend! 60! cents!?

Now all you have to do is remember what your Y! email address was amid sounds of lawyers popping champagne

Security06 Feb 2020 | 33

Quick!! The! top! five! things! you! want! to! see! from! Yahoo! – what! are! they!?

Logowatch Yeah, well, tough, you get a brand rejig instead

Bootnotes24 Sep 2019 | 21

Yahoo! customers! wake! up! to! borked! email! (Yes! people! still! actually! use! it!)

Updated FFS!

SaaS05 Sep 2019 | 73

Yahoo! tries! again! with! 3 billion! email! account! theft! payout!

$7,500 compensation up for grabs if you're the right victim

Security09 Apr 2019 | 14

Judge! snuffs! Yahoo!'s attempt! to! settle! 2013! megahack! class-action!

$35m for attorney fees? Judge Lucy says Koh, hell no!

Security29 Jan 2019 | 13

Tech sector meekly waves arms in another bid to get Oz to amend its crypto-busting laws

Comment Rather than binning them and starting again

Security24 Jan 2019 | 20

30 spies dead after Iran cracked CIA comms network with, er, Google search – new claim

Uncle Sam's snoops got sloppy with online chat, it seems

Security02 Nov 2018 | 108

Biz! Formerly! Known! As! Yahoo! Settles! Data! Breach! Cases! To! The! Tune! Of! $47m!

Didja think we'd get rid of the exclaims just 'cos you're Altaba now?

Security18 Sep 2018 | 21

UK! watchdog! slaps! Yahoo! with! £250k! fine! for! 2014! data! breach!

'Systemic failures' put Brit users' personal info at risk

Security12 Jun 2018 | 20

Yahoo! Kills! The! Messenger!

Chat app won't be part of Purple Palace's Oath chapter

Personal Tech08 Jun 2018 | 41

Yahoo! merc! hacker! Karim! Baratov! gets! five! years! in! the! clink!

Canadian avoids maximum stretch behind bars after doing FSB's bidding

Security30 May 2018 | 8

Yahoo! fined! $35m! for! covering! up! massive! IT! security! screwup!

Now, who wants to take a look at the revamped Yahoo Mail?

Security24 Apr 2018 | 24

Yahoo! dismemberment! begins! as! Oath! offloads! Flickr!

SmugMug now the proud owner of more than twenty billion photographs

On-Prem23 Apr 2018 | 25

Yahoo! webmail! hacker! faces! nearly! eight! years! in! the! cooler!

Prosecutors ask judge to give Baratov 94 months for stealing accounts on behalf of FSB

Security19 Apr 2018 | 17

Yahoo! Can't! Toss! Hacking! Lawsuit!

Judge Koh trims class-action complaint, but suit will proceed

Security12 Mar 2018 | 8

Corpse! of! Yahoo! drags! emails! of! the! dead! case! to! US! Supreme! Court!

'Pon their Oath, they're not having this

Security09 Feb 2018 | 34

Yahooooo! says! its! email! is! scrahoooo-ed!

Services down and out for seven hours and counting

Software05 Jan 2018 | 32

Mozilla and Yahoo! trade sueballs over Firefox-Google search deal

'Your search is trash and you stopped paying ' vs. 'we had a deal you can't walk away from'

Software06 Dec 2017 | 15

Yahoo! Groups! Go! TITSUP! for! Days!

Cunning plan: anger rusted-on users who've been with you before social networks existed

Personal Tech27 Nov 2017 | 40

Remember CompuServe forums? They're still around! Also they're about to die

From the same people who turned Yahoo! into Oath, the end of an era

On-Prem15 Nov 2017 | 61

Marissa! Mayer! pulled! out! of! retirement! to! explain! Yahoo! hack! to! Senators!

Joins Equifax and Verizon execs to explain pitiful security

Security08 Nov 2017 | 26

Dying! Yahoo! loses! fight! to! lock! dead! man's! dead! account!

Sure, now they care about protecting email

Legal16 Oct 2017 | 19

Oath-my-God: THREE! BILLION! Yahoo! accounts! hacked! in! 2013! – not! 'just!' 1bn!

Every user pwned, how's that $4bn looking now, Verizon?

Security03 Oct 2017 | 66

Yahoo! search! results!, recommendations!, ad! flinging! code! is! now! open! source!

Here's the keys to ride Vespa into the sunset

Devops27 Sep 2017 | 8

Google, Bing, Yahoo! data hoarding is like homeopathy. It doesn't work – new study claims

Boffins find search quality unaffected

Legal19 Sep 2017 | 48

Yahoo! must! face! the! music! over! data! breaches! judge! rules!

Purple Palace's corporate carcass to cop a kicking as class action gets green light

On-Prem04 Sep 2017 | 9

Accused! Yahoo! hacker! pleads! not! guilty! in! US! court!

It wasn't me nor the FSB, claims Karim Baratov

Security24 Aug 2017 | 2

Verizon!-owned! Yahoo! bins! AT&T! IDs! for! Tumblr! logins!

Yahoo!,Tumblr users need to register new email addresses

Personal Tech26 Jun 2017 | 7

Yahoo! cleanup! will! cost! Verizon! half! a! billion! bucks!

Ha! Ha! Another! chance! to! use! these! exclamations!

On-Prem15 Jun 2017 | 11

Marissa! Mayer! out! as! Yahoo!-Verizon! closes!

Chief exec says Yaho-o-oo! as biz becomes Oath

On-Prem13 Jun 2017 | 33

Yahoo! shareholders! sign! off! sale! to! Verizon!, which! sharpens! axe!

Purple Palace as we know it to close on June 13th

On-Prem09 Jun 2017 | 7

Yahoo! retires! bleeding! ImageMagick! to! kill! 0-day! vulnerability!

Purple Palace pays researcher US$778 bounty per byte

Security21 May 2017 | 16

Yahoo!'s Marissa! will! eject! with! $186m!.. $185m!.. $184m!..

Burning down the Purple Palace has its rewards

On-Prem25 Apr 2017 | 20

For the first time ever, Verizon sheds subs: 300,000 punters walk out

Don't worry guys, Yahoo! is coming to the rescue

Personal Tech20 Apr 2017 | 7

MEYER! SUES! YAHOO!

Brouhaha over shoddy website and payments sparks lawsuit

On-Prem18 Apr 2017 | 6

Irish! data! police! are! preparing! to! whack! Yahoo! over! that! hack!

Er, wait, which hack? We've lost track...

Security13 Apr 2017 | 6

Yahoo! human! rights! fund! called! a! sham!! $13m! of! $17m! wasted!

Lawsuit says Purple Palace's China fund was just 'window dressing'

On-Prem12 Apr 2017 | 8

Verizon utters solemn Oath: Yahoo! will remain Yahoo!

Logo Watch Purple Palace keeps its exclamation mark under Alphabetical umbrella

On-Prem04 Apr 2017 | 10

Yahoo!'s big, fat clustered Google Machine Learning wedding

Analysis Yahoo! open-source code fling builds a better Google, again

Software23 Mar 2017 |

Russian! spies! 'brains! behind!' Yahoo! mega-hack! – four! charged!

Two FSB agents and two stooges fingered for 2014's 500m webmail account raid

Security15 Mar 2017 | 39

Marissa! Mayer! out! as! CEO! of! Yahoo! corpse! post-Verizon! gobble!

She won't lead Altaba, she may pop up at the US telco, she will pocket $23m, though

On-Prem13 Mar 2017 | 35

Yahoo! dysfunction! meant! security! warnings! were! ignored!

Investigation reveals 32 million accounts were attacked with forged cookies, costing CEO Marissa Mayer her bonus

Security02 Mar 2017 | 15

$350m! shaved! off! sale! price! as! Verizon! swallows! Yahoo!

$4.48bn... cheap! (apols to Alfred E Neuman)

On-Prem21 Feb 2017 | 26

Haven't deleted your Yahoo account yet? Reminder: Hackers forged login cookies

We're! not! even! bothering! with! exclamation! mark! this! time!

Security16 Feb 2017 | 40

Verizon! surprisingly! OK! with! Yahoo! despite! mega-hack!

Can't get that bonus if the merger falls through, so meh, shave off 5% and let's go

Security15 Feb 2017 | 8

Explain! yourself! US! senators! yell! at! Yahoo!

Purple Palace pressed to come clean on its mega-breaches

Security14 Feb 2017 | 13

Yahoo! boo! hoo! hoo!: Verizon! hits! brakes! on! $4.8bn! biz! gobble!

And SEC probes three-year gap between data swipe and disclosure

On-Prem24 Jan 2017 | 4

Is! Yahoo! dead?! Why! web! biz! will! rename! to! Altaba! – the! truth!

Verizon deal looks like it could go ahead

On-Prem10 Jan 2017 | 47

Cancel! that! yacht! order! Marissa! – Verizon's! still! cold! on! Yahoo! gobble!

$4.8bn deal still very much up in the air

On-Prem05 Jan 2017 | 17

FYI! – Your! hacked! Yahoo! account! is! worth! $0.0003!

Stolen billion-user database being flogged for $300,000, apparently

Security19 Dec 2016 | 18

German infosec agency urges security review after Yahoo! flensing

Local companies take security seriously, says BSI head, but give 'em fake phone numbers and addresses anyway

Security16 Dec 2016 | 5