Disappeared databases since returned with no memory of what happened, speculation of bug abounds Several versions of Amazon Web Services’ Aurora PostgreSQL went missing earlier this week, prompting concern among AWS customers.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Ugly: And it’s all about video game robberies at this stage Two people have been arrested in Malaysia as part of America’s crackdown on the Chinese government’s hackers.… …read more Source:: Register

Facebook plans to launch Ray-Ban smartglasses in 2021 while testing out AR glasses; meanwhile, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has already held a team meeting in VR. …read more Source:: ZDNet

USB-C is near-ubiquitous: Almost every modern laptop and smartphone has at least one USB-C port, with the exception of the iPhone, which still uses Apple’s proprietary Lightning port. For all its improvements, USB-C has become a mess of tangled standards — a nightmare for consumers to navigate despite the initial promise of simplicity. From a…

After years of complaints from users, Goodreads’ reign over the world of book talk might be coming to an end. From a report: Goodreads started off the way you might think: two avid readers, in the mid-Noughties, wanting to build space online for people to track, share, and talk about books they were reading. Husband…

The five Chinese nationals are among seven defendants arrested for intrusion campaigns into more than 100 organizations, the DoJ reports. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Please just patch your infrastructure, begs US-CISA Where Chinese hackers exploit, Iranians aren’t far behind. So says the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is warning that malicious persons from Iran are exploiting a slew of vulns in VPN products from Citrix, F5 Networks and Pulse Secure.… …read more Source:: Register

Roll your negotiation skill, because this d20 is a hefty one. The Tweet is also below. We are charmed by [Greg Davill]’s twenty-sided LED contraption, but what do we call it? Is it a device? A sculpture? A die? Even though “d20” is right on his custom controller PCB, we don’t think this will grace…

Samsung has succeeded in making a follow-up foldable phone that improves almost everything we hated about the original Galaxy Fold. …read more Source:: CNet

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