Day: March 25, 2020

Palo Alto Networks intros new security features in Prisma Cloud

New features in this latest release focus on giving DevOps and SecOps teams more visibility and improved security across the technology stack. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Nuclear Scientists Developing Faster, Cheaper Covid-19 Test

Nuclear scientists in Austria are closing in on new coronavirus testing kits that could dramatically lower the cost and time it takes to diagnose people for the disease. From a report: With Covid-19 tests in short supply in many places, some individuals have turned to private laboratories that can genetically detect the pathogen. That process,…


HPE fixes another SAS SSD death bug: This time, drives will conk out after 40,000 hours of operation

Get your patch in place to avoid future data loss HPE has told customers that four kinds of solid-state drives (SSDs) in its servers and storage systems may experience failure and data loss at 40,000 hours, or 4.5 years, of operation.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Singapore Government To Make Its Contact-Tracing App Freely Available To Developers Worldwide

In a move to help the international community combat the coronavirus pandemic, the Singapore government will be making the software for its contact-tracing application TraceTogether, which has already been installed by more than 620,000 people, freely available to developers around the world. From a report: In a post on Monday, Minister-in-charge of the Smart Nation…


GSM Module Does More Than Advertised

For many projects, a WiFi connection is overkill, too complicated, or too far away to work properly. Even though it’s relatively ubiquitous, sometimes the best choice for getting data to or from the real world is a connection to the cellular network, which can be done with the M590 module for about a dollar each….


London court tells Julian Assange: No, coronavirus is not a good reason for you to be let out of prison

Flight risk remains, says judge as she refuses bail attempt Julian Assange has failed to use the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason to get out of prison – after a judge ruled that his previous antics made him a flight risk.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Amazon, Owned by World’s Richest Man, Soliciting Public Donations To Pay Workers’ Sick Leave

While much of the economy grinds to a halt, Amazon is doing more business than ever. The company has announced it is hiring 100,000 workers to try to meet surging demand. In 2019, Amazon had over $280 billion in revenue and $11.9 billion in profits. As more Americans shift their shopping online, it will likely…


Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks hardware supply chains and elasticity: ‘Bigger issue’ is what happens around US and Europe’s ‘demand side’

Staying upright as more restrictions slapped on its clouds Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella put a brave face on things yesterday as the Windows giant’s infrastructure creaks under “unprecedented” load.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Britons Saying Final Goodbyes To Dying Relatives By Videolink

People are having to use videolinks to say their last goodbyes to dying relatives with Covid-19 because hospitals are curtailing visits to prevent spread of the virus. From a report: In a sad scene that is increasingly being played out out across the country, in the early hours of Tuesday morning a patient with coronavirus…


Geofence Warrant Sends Bicyclist’s Privacy Over the Handlebars

About a year ago, Zachary McCoy took a bike ride around his neighborhood in Gainesville, Florida. It may have been forgettable to him, but not to history. Because McCoy used an app to track his mileage, the route was forever etched in the Google-verse and attached to his name. On the day of this ill-fated…