Day: April 26, 2020

Apple, Google address privacy concerns with coronavirus tracking tech – CNET

The tech giants added new security features for their iPhone and Android phone technology. …read more Source:: CNet


Coronavirus is forcing tech companies to embrace work-life balance – CNET

Apple, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Uber have new work from home policies as tech culture clashes with family life. …read more Source:: CNet


This hospital is using Microsoft video chat to protect doctors fighting coronavirus – CNET

Video chat has changed the way we work during the pandemic. It’s changing medicine too. …read more Source:: CNet


Galaxy Fold 2 rumors: Huge glass screen, stylus, August release, price up in the air – CNET

What will the cameras, features and price for Samsung’s next foldable phone be? Here’s what we’ve heard so far. …read more Source:: CNet


Developer Attempts ‘Doom’ Clone for the Amiga 500

Mike Bouma is Slashdot reader #85,252. (And judging by his Slashdot profile, he was also a participant in the short-lived Amiga webring.) He writes: KK of the demo scene group Altair is making a Doom clone for the Amiga 500. The system requirements are a mere 7 Mhz Amiga 500 with 1 MB of RAM!…


These are the best dog movies to watch with your pup today – CNET

It’s National Pet Parents Day, and Fandango Now has curated 60 classic dog movies for the occasion. …read more Source:: CNet


Firefox Raises Its Bug Bounties to $10,000

“We’re updating our bug bounty policy and payouts to make it more appealing to researchers and reflect the more hardened security stance we adopted after moving to a multi-process, sandboxed architecture,” reports the Mozilla security blog: Besides rewarding duplicate submissions, we’re clarifying our payout criteria and raising the payouts for higher impact bugs. Now, sandbox…


Why Aren’t More Developers Using Rust?

An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet: Rust has been voted the “most-loved” programming language by developers on Stack Overflow for four years in a row. But the Rust project now admits it has an adoption problem among developers and organizations. Rust’s adoption issue surfaced in January’s Stack Overflow’s 2019 survey, which revealed that despite developers’ positive…


Another one-line npm package breaks the JavaScript ecosystem

An update to tiny “is-promise” library impacted millions of JavaScript projects. …read more Source:: ZDNet


How Australia’s New Contact-Tracing App Tries to Fight Covid-19 While Protecting Privacy

“Australia’s coronavirus tracing app, dubbed COVIDSafe, has been released as the nation seeks to contain the spread of the deadly pandemic,” reports ABC.net.au: People who download the app will be asked to supply a name, which can be a pseudonym, their age range, a mobile number and post code. Those who download the software will…