Day: April 1, 2019

Now Toto’s Africa is Stuck in Our Heads

April Fool’s Day is bad. April Fool’s Day is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. For one day a year, we’re inundated with pieces that can, accurately and without any sense of irony, be called fake news. YouTube is worse. But you know what’s worse than April Fool’s Day? A hundred children playing…


iPhone 11 rumors: Price, specs, features and everything else we know – CNET

As Samsung leads the market toward 5G, bi-lateral charging and foldable screens, can Apple keep up? …read more Source:: CNet


Over 13K iSCSI storage clusters left exposed online without a password

New attack vector opens backdoor inside enterprise disk storage arrays and people’s NAS devices. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Sony To Slash Smartphone Workforce 50% By 2020

Sony is cutting up to half its smartphone workforce as sales shrink in the face of stiff global competition. From a report: The job cuts come as the global smartphone industry suffers one of the severest downturns of recent years. Worldwide shipments are expected to decline for the third straight year in 2019 to about…


Cloudflare offers mobile VPN to hide more of your browsing history – CNET

It’ll speed up your connection too, the company says. …read more Source:: CNet


Global Video Streaming Market is Largely Controlled by the Usual Suspects

An anonymous reader shares a report: Weeks after Steven Spielberg took a swing at Netflix and Hulu, the Hollywood legend had a change of heart about the medium, appearing at Apple’s star-studded event to help the iPhone-maker launch a streaming service. The embrace comes as people are increasingly cutting their cable connections and moving to…


Google employees urge removal of AI council member for alleged anti-trans views – CNET

The new council, set up to get input on AI issues from outside experts, is already in turmoil. …read more Source:: CNet


No April Fools’ joke: This Burger King Whopper is meat-free, and you’d never know – CNET

I ate the new Impossible Whopper, made of plant meat. Here’s how it went. …read more Source:: CNet


Bye Bye vi: GNU/Linux Distros Drop Support

If you grew up with Unix systems like we did, you’ll be sorry to hear the news: vi, the noble text editor that has served us so well these 40 years, is going away — from many GNU/Linux systems, anyway. As of this writing, GNU/Linux Mint, Debian, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE — four of the five…


New York capital hit by ransomware attack, taking services offline – CNET

The situation hasn’t been resolved yet. …read more Source:: CNet