Prime Day hasn’t started, but there are already some notable sales on wearables. …read more Source:: CNet

These are some of the best deals on the best games during the current Steam summer sale. We’ll keep this updated with new picks daily. …read more Source:: CNet

At least one head rolls after second Florida city pays gigantic ransom demand to ransomware gang. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Another step towards self-reliance amid US trade tiff China-owned semiconductor giant Tsinghua Unigroup, which already manufactures flash memory, is about to try its luck at making DRAM – a much more complicated endeavour.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The show’s executive producer wants Luci-fans to let hell freeze over. …read more Source:: CNet

To many, Jony Ive’s departure from Apple last week felt very sudden. But a narrative is forming to suggest that he’s been slowly drifting apart from the company for several years as the iPhone maker’s priorities shifted from product design to operations. Here are some of the highlights from The Wall Street Journal [paywalled] piece:…

He goes from Superman to mythical monster hunter. …read more Source:: CNet

Don’t forget to swing by the nearest recycling bin Another milestone was reached today in the long, drawn-out death of Windows Phone: Microsoft has stopped distributing app updates to the dozen or so Windows Phone 8.x devices not already consigned to the recyclers.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

An anonymous reader shares a report: Three and a half years ago, Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, Microsoft’s cloud, said, “One in four [Azure] instances are Linux.” Next, in 2017, Microsoft revealed that 40% of Azure virtual machines (VM) were Linux-based. Then in the fall of 2018, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executive VP of the cloud and…

Commentary: And it’s not even close. …read more Source:: CNet