Day: May 12, 2020

Hamilton hits Disney Plus on July 3 – CNET

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway show is coming to the streaming service just in time for the July 4 celebrations. …read more Source:: CNet


Facebook-for-suits puts on a fresh jacket. ‘Classic’ Yammer is so 2018. Behold, a public preview of ‘New’ Yammer

Didn’t a soft drinks company try a similar stunt a few years ago? Microsoft has flung open the doors on its latest crack at Facebook-for-suits with a “New” Yammer.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Ransomware: Why paying the crooks can actually cost you more in the long run

One in four organisations are paying crooks to get their data back. But doing so not only costs more, but could come back to haunt you in future. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Microsoft’s VS Code 1.45 is out: GitHub integration plus JavaScript debugger update

Microsoft has released the April 2020 update for its popular Visual Studio Code cross-platform code editor. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Court Fines YouTuber For Posting IPTV Piracy Tutorials

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Operated by Bruno Gustavo Januario, the ‘Jorge Dejorge’ channel is packed with technology-focused videos offering reviews, unboxing videos, tips and tutorials, most of which are entirely non-problematic. However, a decision to publish advice on how to obtain TV channels via pirate IPTV services attracted the attention of…


Anubis Malware Upgrade Logs When Victims Look at Their Screens

Threat actors are cooking up new features for the sophisticated banking trojan that targets Google Android apps and devices. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Psst… Wanna buy some stock in a spaceplane company? Virgin would like a word

Also: China trumpets the return of its new capsule and Cygnus has left the station Roundup Welcome to your weekly reminder that space is both expensive and difficult in The Register‘s roundup of all things rockety.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Database Week: DataStax unleashed Astra managed Cassandra cloud

A couple weeks following AWS’s release of Keyspaces, DataStax now has its answer: a managed cloud service based on DataStax Enterprise. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Yes sir, no sir, 3 bags NoSQL: Aerospike, DataStax, ScyllaDB all freshen up as community preps for cloudy future

‘An entire database can be in one rack’ DataStax, the lead vendor behind open-source DBMS Apache Cassandra, is rolling out a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) version of its wares, while the Cassandra-emulating ScyllaDB has pushed out its own upgrade to compete with DynamoDB, the AWS-native version of the same database.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


6 Free Cybersecurity Training and Awareness Courses

Most are designed to help organizations address teleworking risks related to COVID-19 scams. …read more Source:: DarkReading