Experts in workplace psychology overwhelmingly agree that burnout is a growing public health crisis. An excerpt from a long report: When the FT set out to investigate this issue, we asked readers to describe how their employers handle mental health issues, including stress, burnout, anxiety and depression. More than 450 people responded from 43 countries….

Google is under fire after a report found that Google Home and Google Assistant records user audio, even when no wake-up word is used. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Walt Disney World will be first to get the second ride for Galaxy’s Edge, this December. …read more Source:: CNet

The vehicles may stall and be unable to restart. …read more Source:: CNet

The outage is just the latest in a slew of major service disruptions to hit social media and cloud service providers. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Resellers missing their lost licences get crumb of comfort Inspire Microsoft’s ironically named Inspire conference kicks off next week in Las Vegas, with the Windows giant hoping to persuade wounded channel middlemen that there remains reasons to be cheerful.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Multiple users are reporting issues while trying to load Twitter. Third-party internet firm DownDetector corroborates the claim, saying more than 10,500 users have reported issues with Twitter in the last 15 minutes. TweetDeck, a service offered by Twitter, is also facing an outage. of this story at Slashdot. …read more Source:: Slashdot

The US Conference of Mayors unanimously adopted a resolution this week to not pay any more ransom demands to hackers following ransomware infections. From a report: “Paying ransomware attackers encourages continued attacks on other government systems, as perpetrators financially benefit,” the adopted resolution reads. “The United States Conference of Mayors has a vested interest in…

US mayors vow not to give in to more extortion demands following ransomware attacks. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Would you add another radio to your smartphone? No, not another WiFi or cellular radio; a smartphone already has that. I’m talking about something that provides connectivity through ISM bands, either 433 or 915 MHz. This can be used where you don’t have cell phone coverage, and it has a longer range than WiFi. This…