Day: August 5, 2020

Clue’s in the name: Samsung’s next Galaxy Note line captures scrawls with responsive stylus then punts them over to a PC

It’s good at taking notes. Plus: Tablet-sized foldable, ear beans, and more Samsung has unveiled two new models of its Galaxy Note smartphone and made sure they’re really good at helping you to take notes.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


FBI Issues Warning Over Windows 7 End-of-Life

The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a private industry notification (PIN) on Monday to partners in the US private sector about the dangers of continuing to use Windows 7 after the operating system reached its official end-of-life (EOL) earlier this year. From a report: “The FBI has observed cyber criminals targeting computer network infrastructure after…


Teardown: Orthofix SpinalStim

If you’ve ever had a particularly nasty fracture, your doctor may have prescribed the use of an electronic bone growth stimulator. These wearable devices produce a pulsed electromagnetic field around the bone, which has been shown to speed up the natural healing process in a statistically significant number of patients. That’s not to say there…


Network sniffers find COVID-19 did not break the internet, but it was behind a massive jump in outages

Disruptions leapt 63% as lockdowns came into force after February Global internet disruptions went up 63 per cent after February and remained elevated throughout the first half of 2020 compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to net and cloud researcher ThousandEyes.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


DDoS Attacks Doubled in Q2 Compared with Prior Quarter

Most attacks were small, but the big ones got bigger than ever, Cloudflare says. …read more Source:: DarkReading


A Cyber ‘Vigilante’ is Sabotaging Emotet’s Return

During Black Hat USA 2020, Threatpost talks to Sherrod DeGrippo, with Proofpoint, about Emotet’s recent return -and how a cyber vigilante is attempting to thwart the malware’s comeback. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Anthony Levandowski Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison, As New $4 Billion Lawsuit Against Uber Is Filed

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer and serial entrepreneur who was at the center of a lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, has been sentenced to 18 months on one count of stealing trade secrets. Judge Alsup said that home confinement would “[give] a green light to every…


Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer

‘Not the most glorious of returns to public market’ says analyst Twelve years after first going public, Rackspace has returned to the NASDAQ with more of a whimper than a bang. It has raised $704m, the vast majority of which will be used to pay down debts owed to its private equity backer.… …read more…


Google to pull plug on Play Music, its streaming service that couldn’t beat Spotify, in favour of YouTube Music

Phased shutdown ends December, and subs will be shunted to other platform Google will begin the process of shutting down its Play Music streaming service later this month, concluding in December when the tech giant nukes all user-uploaded tracks.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Class action comedy: Is Microsoft stealing its business customers’ data? (Uh, no)

A trio of Office 365 business customers have filed suit in Northern California accusing Microsoft of outrageous privacy violations. Their case doesn’t stand up to even the most casual scrutiny. …read more Source:: ZDNet