Day: February 26, 2019

Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film’s Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls

Rotten Tomatoes is finally addressing its troll problem. The review aggregation website has unveiled a new initiative to “modernize its audience rating system through a series of product enhancements,” — the first of which includes banning user reviews and comments prior to a movie’s theatrical release. Getting rid of pre-release user reviews means internet trolls…


Pokemon Direct promises delicious new info on Wednesday – CNET

Nintendo teased some Pokemon announcements on the series’ 23rd anniversary. …read more Source:: CNet


Storage mad lads VAST Data tell world+dog: We’ve just inhaled $80m. Oh, and here’s how we do that ‘no more tiers’ thing

Just one tier of cheap deduped accelerated flash Startup VAST Data lifted the lid on its secret storage sauce today, revealing cheap, exabyte-level scale out flash arrays sped by Optane SSDs – which it hopes will persuade users to load up their on-premises spinning rust in the ‘barrow and wheel it to the tip.… …read…


California AG Expanding Consumer Privacy Protections

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The Dark Sides Of Modern Cars: Hacking And Data Collection

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Consumers no longer think voice assistants are mediocre – CNET

Adobe’s latest report shows consumer sentiment about Alexa, Siri and others is much more positive. …read more Source:: CNet


Putting the Brakes on High-Frequency Trading with Physics

In the middle of the East Coast’s slow broil in the summer of 2018, a curious phenomenon surfaced. As a tropical air mass settled in and smothered the metropolitan New York area, a certain breed of stock speculator began feeling the financial heat as the microwave signals linking together various data centers and exchanges began…


I used the Huawei Mate X and now I’m a foldable phone believer – CNET

Forget about the $2,600 price tag. The Galaxy Fold and Mate X aren’t just about the money. …read more Source:: CNet


Critical WinRAR Flaw Found Actively Being Exploited

The spam campaign is being used to spread a malicious .exe file, taking advantage of a vulnerability in WinRAR which was patched in January. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Extreme CO2 Levels Could Trigger Clouds ‘Tipping Point’ and 8C of Global Warming

If atmospheric CO2 levels exceed 1,200 parts per million (ppm), it could push the Earth’s climate over a “tipping point”, finds a new study. This would see clouds that shade large part of the oceans start to break up. From a report: According to the new paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, this could…