A recent Dell Technologies Brain on Tech study found when people were tasked with logging into a computer with a long, difficult password, their stress not only increased by 31% within 5 seconds, but it continued to rise even after successfully logging in. Password stress goes hand in hand with a growing appetite for biometrics…

The Raspberry Pi is a fine machine that appears in many a retrocomputing project, but its custom Linux distribution lacks one thing. It boots into a GNU/Linux shell or a fully-featured desktop GUI rather than as proper computers should, to a BASIC interpreter. This vexed [Alan Pope], who yearned for his early days of ROM…

Ian Allison, reporting at CoinDesk: IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing, according to four people familiar with the situation. Job losses at IBM escalated as the company failed to meet its revenue targets for the once-fÃted technology by 90% this year, according to one of the sources. “IBM is doing a…

The company founded by the creators of Apache Spark nabs $1B in fresh funding from an array of financial services and cloud companies’ venture funds, marking a vote of confidence in the data lakehouse model. …read more Source:: ZDNet

iGiant says case alleging state aid from Ireland was ‘catgorically annulled’ Last year Apple won a long-fought legal battle against the European Commission, which argued it had received unlawful state aid from Ireland that allowed it to swerve nearly €13bn in back taxes.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

AmiMoJo shares a report: Xiaomi has sued the U.S. Defense and Treasury departments, challenging a blacklisting that blocks American investors from buying the Chinese smartphone giant’s securities. The lawsuit came after the Defense Department determined earlier this month that China’s biggest smartphone maker was affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army. Beijing-based Xiaomi called the blacklisting…

How confident are you in your security team’s ability to protect your organization from phishing? …read more Source:: DarkReading

Based in Tel Aviv, Alcide’s technology aims to bridge security and DevOps with code-to-production security for Kubernetes deployments. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Spot can gather up the dirty clothes you left on the floor, you animal. …read more Source:: CNet

Adding Serial API, Web NFC support, richer human interface device support Google has released a beta of Chrome 89, adding further hardware interaction APIs even though Mozilla and Apple consider many of these features harmful, as well as introducing a desktop-sharing API for Windows and Chrome OS.… …read more Source:: Register