The viral event in Nevada to “see them aliens” is finally happening, and so are the memes. …read more Source:: CNet

twocows writes: Philippine health officials declared a polio outbreak in the country on Thursday, nearly two decades after the World Health Organization declared it to be free of the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said at a news conference that authorities have confirmed at least one case of polio…

The Senate Majority leader had been blocking legislation for election security funding for more than a year. …read more Source:: CNet

Microsoft broke its built-in antivirus utility, thanks to a patch for a different issue. …read more Source:: Threatpost

An on premise hacker can cripple even the best cybersecurity defenses. …read more Source:: Threatpost

‘Pain points’ include data collection, lock-in and uncontrollable costs The Federal Ministry of the Interior (Bundesministerium des Innern or BMI) in Germany says it will reduce reliance on specific IT suppliers, especially Microsoft, in order to strengthen its “digital sovereignty”.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The identity management company plans to sell 12.5 million shares, raising $187.5 million in its initial public offering. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Microsoft’s ‘Project Saturn’ is an effort to rearchitect its Azure Stack hybrid computing platform and, possibly one day, to allow key Azure services and APIs to run anywhere. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Delicious data hoard handed over from UK contracts Five National Health Trusts have signed up to transfer their existing data deals with DeepMind to its parent company Google, but one has refused.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The Mate 30 series of smartphones from Huawei is now official, starting with the Mate 30 Pro and the Mate 30. From a report: The announcement of Mate 30 series comes at a difficult time for Huawei, whose presence on the USA’s entity list prevents US companies from doing business with the Chinese firm. Google…