Day: April 29, 2020

Coronavirus and plant restarts: The automakers returning to work – CNET

From FCA to Porsche, here are the automakers with plants back online in some capacity. …read more Source:: CNet


Galaxy Fold 2 rumors: August release date, no word yet on price – CNET

What will the cameras, features and price for Samsung’s next foldable phone be? Here’s what we’ve heard so far. …read more Source:: CNet


Google Cloud opens Las Vegas region

Google now has four regions in the western US, seven across the entire US and 23 globally. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Google rumored to release Pixel 4A next month – CNET

The phone will reportedly be available in Europe on May 22. …read more Source:: CNet


Facebook’s WhatsApp Eyes Lending Feature in India

WhatsApp, which began testing its mobile payments feature in India two years ago, could offer at least one more financial service to people in its biggest market. From a report: In a filing with the local regulator in India, the Facebook-owned service has listed credit as one of the areas it will pursue in the…


ThreatList: Human-Mimicking Bots Spike, Targeting e-Commerce and Travel

Overall bot activity on the web has soared, with a 26 percent growth rate — attacks on applications, APIs and mobile sites are all on the rise. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Critical GitLab Flaw Earns Bounty Hunter $20K

A GitLab path traversal flaw could allow attackers to read arbitrary files and remotely execute code. …read more Source:: Threatpost


US Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession

The record-long U.S. economic expansion is over after almost 11 years, with what’s likely to be the deepest recession in at least eight decades now under way. The world’s largest economy shrank at a 4.8% annualized pace in the first quarter, the biggest slide since 2008 and the first contraction since 2014, as the need…


Facebook says its Blender chatbot ‘feels more human’ – CNET

Facebook’s new open-source chatbot blends personality, knowledge and empathy with the goal of being more humanlike. …read more Source:: CNet


We need you, Reg IT pros: How are you modernizing your databases in a hybrid world?

Clue us in so we can better understanding the challenges and opportunities you face Reader survey Relational database systems are in many ways the workhorses of IT. But how are they holding up in the modern age?… …read more Source:: Reg IT pros: How are you modernizing your databases in a hybrid world?” >TheRegister