Some companies regret sharing information with tech giant and its Alexa Fund. From a report: When Amazon.com’s venture-capital fund invested in DefinedCrowd, it gained access to the technology startup’s finances and other confidential information. Nearly four years later, in April, Amazon’s cloud-computing unit launched an artificial-intelligence product that does almost exactly what DefinedCrowd does, said…

Revealed at Comic-Con 2020, the new Trek cartoon will boldly steal where no one has stolen before… …read more Source:: CNet

The service has reportedly hired a security firm after 17 million user records were found on a public hacking forum. …read more Source:: DarkReading

When coronavirus ruins your summer, shake it off — but keep plenty of blank space around you. …read more Source:: CNet

‘Most stable’ release yet boosts scaling speed, data observability The beta version of Apache Cassandra 4.0, the most significant new release of column-oriented NoSQL database in years according to those involved, hit the downloads centre this week, with the promise of a 5x scaling speed improvement, new observability features and less “unnecessary garbage”.… …read more…

COVID-19 has changed the face of cybercrime, as the latest malware statistics show. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Samsung’s gearing up to announce some new phones, and we’ve rounded up everything we could find out about the Note 20 and Z Fold2. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The delayed Roadster doesn’t sound like it’s a candidate for Tesla’s new and upcoming Texas-based Gigafactory. …read more Source:: CNet

Microsoft promised this Halo game will feature bigger and more visually intense battles. …read more Source:: CNet

The two flaws allow man-in-the-middle attacks that would give an attacker access to all data flowing through the router. …read more Source:: Threatpost