eclipse_images LONDON — The scale of a sophisticated cyberattack on the U.S. government that was unearthed this week is much bigger than many first anticipated. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a summary on Thursday that the threat “poses a grave risk to the federal government.” It added that “state, local, tribal,
Month: December 2020
Sony is pulling the much-hyped Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation stores around the world, the firm said Friday, after a flood of complaints and ridicule over bugs, compatibility issues and even health risks. The dystopian-themed title is reportedly one of the most expensive video games ever made, and its December 10 release was hotly anticipated, but
Twitter is planning to create a new type of account for bots next year that will identify them as automated, the company said in a blog post on Thursday finalising plans for a reboot of its long-paused verification programme. The company said bot accounts “can bring a lot of value to the service,” but acknowledged
In recent years, enterprises have increasingly adopted bring your own device policies, allowing employees to use self-selected computers and smartphones rather than ones issued by IT departments — a change that enabled many companies to rapidly shift people to working from home, and is expected to continue growing for the next five years. But as
A labour office’s preliminary investigation into violence last weekend at a factory run by Apple supplier Wistron found several violations by the Taiwanese firm and its vendors, according to its report reviewed by Reuters. Angry workers complaining about the non-payment of wages for months smashed equipment and iPhone models on Saturday at the Wistron plant,
Boba Fett is getting his own Star Wars series. At the very end of The Mandalorian season 2 episode 8, Disney and Lucasfilm revealed that The Book of Boba Fett will be released in December 2021. The Boba Fett spin-off show will be available on Disney+ and Disney+ wherever available. Temuera Morrison’s Boba Fett will
Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during the company’s annual shareholders meeting in Bellevue, Washington, on Nov. 29, 2017. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Intel dropped as much as 6% on Friday afternoon following a Bloomberg report that Microsoft plans to design its own chips for its Surface PCs as
Among Us, the popular multiplayer game that rose to popularity this year, will be available on Xbox consoles in 2021. The announcement came soon after the game joined Xbox Game Pass for PC. Among Us will be available on Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S in 2021, although the launch date has
How can your app hook into a geocoding service that offers forward and reverse geocoding and an auto-completion facility? Geocoding turns a location name or address into geocoordinates. The service gets used by thousands of applications like Uber and Grubhub to track and plot their map data. Yet, it can also help web development by
Walmart, which is looking to invest in TikTok, said on Thursday it would partner with the Chinese-owned video-sharing app to sell items seen on a livestream by creators featuring the retailer’s fashion merchandise. Walmart said viewers on TikTok, which reaches 100 million US users a month, can shop for fashion items featured in content from
Datakin is announcing OpenLineage, its initiative to define industry standards for data lineage, at the Open Core Summit today. OpenLineage’s end-to-end management intends to make data operations more efficient and trustworthy for enterprises. Datakin is developing OpenLineage in collaboration with contributors to other open source projects, including Admunsen, DataHub, Pandas, and Spark. Data lineage is
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC has been put through a series of synthetic industry benchmark tests by the company itself. Launched earlier this month as a successor to last year’s Snapdragon 865, the new SoC from Qualcomm posted impressive scores in benchmark tests including platforms such as AnTuTu, Geekbench, and more. The company usually allows third-party
Dec.16 — Scott Minerd, Guggenheim Global chief investment officer, says his interest in Bitcoin is tied to Federal Reserve monetary policy. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets.”
Instagram appears to be down for many users around the world. The issue appears to be unevenly distributed, with it working for some users, and not for others. The week of downtime continues with one more high-profile outage, with Instagram users turning to Twitter and other social platforms to complain about outages. The hashtag #Instagramdown
As 5G networks are being gradually rolled out in major cities across the world, an analysis of its network architecture has revealed a number of potential weaknesses that could be exploited to carry out a slew of cyber assaults, including denial-of-service (DoS) attacks to deprive subscribers of Internet access and intercept data traffic. The findings
Twitter’s verification policy has been revamped and it will be implemented on January 20, 2021. The company shared the development through a blog post and stated that it will also start automatically removing the verified badge from inactive and incomplete accounts. Last month, the social media platform revealed its plans to relaunch the verification programme
An unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returned safely to Earth early Thursday in the first mission in four decades to collect lunar samples, the Xinhua news agency said. The return module of the space probe known as Chang’e-5 landed in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region, Xinhua said, quoting the China
It’s a cliché of the modern internet data economy to say that if you are not paying for something online, you are the product being sold. Companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook have built massive data-driven businesses by turning their customers into the suppliers of their most important product — data. Despite attempts to recalibrate
Amazfit GTS 2 smartwatch has been launched in India and is now available for pre-orders in the country. Xiaomi-backed Chinese company Huami has said that it will start the deliveries of its latest smartwatch from December 21. The smartwatch has already been launched in China as well as in various other European countries. The smartwatch
Microsoft Edge browser with native support is now available for Apple Silicon, the Edge developers team has announced via Twitter. The team said the native support for Mac ARM64 devices is available in the Canary channel that gets all the newest releases, including the stable ones. The update should bring an optimised performance, though the
A box with the Sony PlayStation 4 Cyberpunk 2077 Collector’s Edition on the counter. Alexander Sayganov | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images LONDON — Sony has removed the video game Cyberpunk 2077 from its PlayStation Store, in a move that has shocked industry analysts and added to the woes of its developer. The
Apple’s TV app and paid streaming service Apple TV+ will be available on Google’s latest Chromecast device early next year, the search giant said on Wednesday. Apple in the past has sometimes reserved access to its services for its own ecosystem of hardware devices, but recently softened the stance in a bid to grow its
Cities: Skylines is free for one day today. Epic Games has kicked off its holiday sale offering one free game every day for 15 days, and city building sim Cities: Skylines is the first on the list. The game is available for free on the Epic Games store today, December 18, till 9:30pm IST, after
The massive state-sponsored espionage campaign that compromised software maker SolarWinds also targeted Microsoft, as the unfolding investigation into the hacking spree reveals the incident may have been far more wider in scope, sophistication, and impact than previously thought. News of Microsoft’s compromise was first reported by Reuters, which also said the company’s own products were
Instagram Lite app is being tested by Facebook in India, revealed Vishal Shah, VP of Product, Instagram, at the Facebook Fuel for India virtual event on Wednesday. The new app comes in less than 2MB of size. Facebook initially tested the Instagram Lite app in the country back in June 2018. That app, however, went
A Canadian astronaut will take part in a lunar mission for the first time in 2023, as part of the NASA-led Artemis project, the minister for innovation, science and industry announced Wednesday. “I am proud to announce another first: Canada will join the US on the first crewed mission to the Moon since the Apollo
Anomalo, a provider of data validation and documentation services for developers, today announced that it raised $5.95 million in venture capital. First Round Capital and Foundation Capital participated in the seed funding round, which is Anomalo’s first since its founding in 2018. Data validation is a top concern for businesses reliant on big data analysis
The European Union on Thursday approved Google’s $2.1-billion (roughly Rs. 15,400 crores) purchase of smartwatch maker Fitbit, after the tech titan agreed to conditions including not using health data from European users for advertising. “We can approve the proposed acquisition of Fitbit by Google because the commitments will ensure that the market for wearables and
Realme C20 has received certification from Thailand’s NBTC authority, showing the possible moniker of the smartphone that carries model number RMX3061. The listing, however, does not reveal any other information. It is speculated to be an entry-level smartphone. Another Realme handset with model number RMX3063 is reportedly believed to belong to the same Realme C20
Microsoft said on Thursday it found malicious software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by US officials this week, adding a top technology target to a growing list of attacked government agencies. The Redmond, Washington company is a user of Orion, the widely deployed networking management software from SolarWinds, which was
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