Day: June 20, 2019

Slack is Now Worth More Than $20 Billion

Five years ago, Slack officially launched out of the ashes of a failed gaming project. Now the company is worth more than $20 billion. From a report: Slack, the workplace communication tool popular in tech and media circles, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, making it the latest tech unicorn to…


Kubernetes goes in for nip and tuck, comes out with 25 ‘enhancements’: We take a look at v1.15

New release is easier to customize, better performance, complex as hell A new release of Kubernetes, version 1.15, has gone live with 25 enhancements including support for go modules in Kubernetes Core, a new Events API in alpha and High Availability (HA) improvements.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Get these great Kindle ebooks for $4 or less – CNET

Get top-notch books from Daniel Silva, Stephen Ambrose and more. …read more Source:: CNet


Facebook Usage Has Collapsed Since Scandals

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Nation-Sponsored Hackers Likely Carried Out Hostile Takeover Of Rival Group’s Servers

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78,0000 Prescriptions Left In Database With No Password

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Firefox Zero Day Was Used In Attack Against Coinbase Employees

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Spy Tech: Tiny Spy Plane becomes Cold War Prize

What looks like something famous, is much smaller, and is embroiled in a web of cold war cloak-and-dagger intrigue? It sounds like the answer could be Mini-Me from the Austin Powers movies, but we were actually thinking of the D-21 supersonic spy drone. Never heard of it? It didn’t have a very long service life,…


Tor Browser Issues Update for Critical System Takeover Flaw

The update patches critical flaw (CVE-2019-11707), a type confusion vulnerability in the Mozilla Firefox code that Tor uses. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Why wait for Prime Day? Save money on Amazon’s luxury Kindle e-reader and the Kids Edition of the Fire tablet – CNET

The big sale starts in July. But the deep discounting has already begun. …read more Source:: CNet