Apple's Pay Later service, a planned strike at Amazon, and Walmart's closure of some of its tech hubs.

 

Apple's Pay Later service, a planned strike at Amazon, and Walmart's closure of some of its tech hubs.

1. Apple Pay Later continues to evolve in its testing phase with expectations for its release this spring. The latest update will use customers' Apple Pay transaction history, spending at the company's retail outlets, App Store transactions, and Apple Cash peer-to-peer payments to determine eligibility. Q: Are you interested in using Apple Pay Later? Tell us on Inside.com.

2. Amazon workers at a U.K. warehouse are planning a week-long strike to protest allegedly low wages. The strike is expected to occur on the last day of February and six business days in March to disrupt Easter holiday shopping, prompting action from the company. Q: Would disruptions at Amazon push you to shop at its competitors? Let us know on Inside.com.

3. Walmart is closing technology centers in Austin, Texas, Portland, Ore., and Carlsbad, Calif., and requiring all its tech staff to work from the office at least twice weekly. The company will try to place impacted workers in alternative roles to minimize job losses.

4. Approximately six months after launching its latest NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD, Samsung released a firmware update believed to address reports of the drive's rapidly declining health. Though the update is expected to slow the rate of degradation going forward, damage that has already occurred cannot be reversed. Q: Do you still find value in HDDs, or have you entirely switched to SSDs? Tell us on Inside.com.

5. Apple's latest updates aim to tackle a zero-day WebKit vulnerability discovered that "may have been actively exploited." The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) strongly encouraged iPhone, Mac, and iPad users to update their devices "as soon as possible" as, without it, hackers could "exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected device.”

6. On Tuesday, GitHub launched a new AI-powered coding tool called Copilot for Business, built in collaboration with OpenAI. Copilot is designed to help programmers write code more efficiently by suggesting code snippets and completing lines of code in real time.

7. Avaya Holdings Corporation (Avaya) filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday for the second time in six years following cloud subscription accounting problems faced last year. The company plans to reduce its total debt by more than 75% upon completing its financial restructuring plan.