Day: June 25, 2021

Microsoft’s Shareholders Demand Right-To-Repair

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Microsoft shareholders have filed a resolution demanding the company seriously consider making its products easier to repair. As You Sow, a non-profit that specializes in shareholder advocacy, delivered the shareholder resolution on Thursday. According to As You Sow, the right-to-repair is important to Microsoft’s shareholders because discarded…


AWS launches BugBust contest: Help fix a $100m problem for a $12 tshirt

Did we mention you’ll soon be paying to play in 30 days, too? AWS has set up a competition for its customers’ developers to find and fix one million bugs.… …read more Source:: Register


HBO Max: Movies, shows, streaming ‘free’ and everything else to know – CNET

HBO Max streams movies, shows, originals and big-screen movies the same day they hit theaters (just not Fast and Furious 9). …read more Source:: CNet


Mercedes-Benz Customer Data Flies Out the Window

For over three years, a vendor was recklessly driving the cloud-stored data of luxury-car-owning customers and wannabe buyers. …read more Source:: Threatpost


PS3 Players Ban: Latest Victims of Surging Attacks on Gaming Industry  

Every Sony PlayStation 3 ID out there was compromised, provoking bans of legit players on the network. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Facebook CEO puts picture of himself wearing too much sunscreen on new board

Surfboard, not corporate board. But we’re sure Zuck is working on that, too Uncanny Valley-dwelling Facebook founderbot Mark Zuckerberg has revealed pictures of a new surfboard he has had custom-made, resplendent with a cartoon picture of him surfing while wearing too much sunscreen.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


After Repeatedly Promising Not To, Facebook Keeps Recommending Political Groups To Its Users

An anonymous reader shares a report: Four days after the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill, a member of the “Not My President” Facebook group wrote in a post, “remember, our founding fathers were seen as terrorist [sic] and traitors.” A fellow group member commented, “I’ll fight for what’s right, this corruption has to be…


Massive Human Head In Chinese Well Forces Scientists To Rethink Evolution

The discovery of a huge fossilised skull that was wrapped up and hidden in a Chinese well nearly 90 years ago has forced scientists to rewrite the story of human evolution. Shmoodling writes: Analysis of the remains has revealed a new branch of the human family tree that points to a previously unknown sister group…


Happy with your existing Windows 10 setup? Good, because Windows 11 could turn its nose up at your CPU

If your chip’s not on the list, you’re not coming in. Even you, Surface Studio 2 Windows 11 won’t land until nearer the end of the year and when it does users will only get a supported sample of the OS if they have relatively new hardware.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Hulu: 10 best movies to watch tonight – CNET

Bloody horror False Positive arrives on Friday. …read more Source:: CNet