Day: May 18, 2020

Car crash: Uber axes another 3,000 jobs, closes 45 offices as it struggles amid coronavirus pandemic

That’s a total of 6,700 employees let go this month – so far Uber has let another 3,000 people go after axing 3,700 earlier this month amid the coronavirus pandemic. That’s about 30 per cent of its 22,000-strong workforce slashed in a month.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Best credit card payment processors in 2020: Square, PayPal, Stripe, and more

Here we take a look at some of the industry’s more popular credit and debit card processors. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Brazil shifts public health websites to the cloud

The Ministry of Health portal and websites relating to the coronavirus pandemic have migrated to an environment operated by Embratel. …read more Source:: ZDNet


FBI slams ‘Apple problem’ as it unlocks Pensacola shooter’s iPhones – CNET

The Justice Department says Apple’s refusal to break its own encryption hampered a national security investigation. …read more Source:: CNet


The FBI Successfully Broke Into a Gunman’s iPhone, But It’s Still Very Angry at Apple

After months of trying, the FBI successfully broke into iPhones belonging to the gunman responsible for a deadly shooting at Pensacola Naval Air Station in December 2019, and it now claims he had associations with terrorist organization al-Qaeda. Investigators managed to do so without Apple’s help, but Attorney General William Barr and FBI director Christopher…


Get 2 years of CyberGhost VPN for just $66 – CNET

The company’s $2.75-a-month deal is back. …read more Source:: CNet


A French Cleat Twist on Electronics Bench Organization

For some of us, our workbench is where organization goes to die. Getting ready to tackle a new project means sweeping away a pile of old projects, exposing exactly as much bench space needed to plop down the new parts. On the other end of the spectrum lie those for whom organization isn’t a means…


Tulsa Mayor wants Tesla Cybertruck police vehicles, if company builds plant – CNET

Tulsa, Oklahoma, is reportedly a finalist for the Cybertruck’s future production plant. …read more Source:: CNet


What will the Bitcoin halving event do for blockchain and digital commerce?

On May 11, the amount earned to process a Bitcoin (BTC) transaction on the blockchain halved. And that could be a big problem from the miners that process the transactions. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Mercedes-Benz Onboard Logic Unit (OLU) Source Code Leaks Online

The source code for “smart car” components installed in Mercedez-Benz vans has been leaked online over the weekend, ZDNet has learned. From the report: The leak occurred after Till Kottmann, a Swiss-based software engineer, discovered a Git web portal belonging to Daimler AG, the German automotive company behind the Mercedes-Benz car brand. Kottmann told ZDNet…