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An anonymous reader shares a report: Adam Mosseri isn’t doing Facebook any favors. The head of Instagram was interviewed on the Recode Media podcast this week following a damning series of articles in the Wall Street Journal based on leaked internal Facebook documents. In the interview with host Peter Kafka, Mosseri attempted to defend the…

The newest watch starts at $399 and isn’t coming until later in the fall. If you were considering a Series 6, you may want to wait a bit. …read more Source:: CNet

The new guidance comes as GM extends downtime for the Bolt EV and EUV’s production site due to the battery-related recall. …read more Source:: CNet

It’s CUs and GDRs here on out for Microsoft’s SQL Server It’s the end of an era. Microsoft has finally released its very last SQL Server service pack.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

OpenSea head of product Nate Chastain, who was recently accused of a form of NFT insider trading, appears to no longer be working for the company. His Twitter bio now includes the phrase “Past: @opensea.” From a report: OpenSea has not publicly named the employee involved in the incident, but CEO Devin Finzer says the…

Bitdefender’s Bogdan Botezatu said they have tested the tool against recent attacks and found that it cannot yet decrypt attacks after the July 13 date. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Ikea parent Interogo Holding among the investors Full-fibre network operator CityFibre has grabbed £1.125bn in financing to help support its plan to wire up to eight million homes in the UK.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

While internet-connected devices can be very useful around the house, and it is pretty cool to be able to monitor your dishwasher from half a world away, it’s important to be mindful of privacy and security issues. For instance, the Cecotec Conga 1490 robot vacuum [Rastersoft] bought came with an Android app, which upon installation…

Breach and attack simulation tools help you raise your game, Keysight says Sponsored Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but something appears to be amiss with cybersecurity. The spectacular success of ransomware is only the latest and worst example, a phenomenon in which small groups of often barely technically literate attackers ransack some of…