惊叹号 Yahoo! has confirmed it is quitting China due to the “increasingly challenging” business and legal environment just as the country’s new Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) comes into effect.… …read more Source:: ! shuts! down! last! China! operations! as! doing! business! becomes ! ‘increasingly challenging’!” >TheRegister

[Michael Lynch] has been a solo developer for over three years now, and has been carefully cataloguing his attempts at generating revenue for himself ever since making the jump to being self-employed. Success is not just hard work; it is partly knowing when the pull the plug on an idea, and [Micheal] has been very…

More than 2,000 New York City first responders are taking medical leave as the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for municipal employees went into effect. According to New York City Fire Department Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro, many people are calling in sick to protest the vaccine mandate. …read more Source:: SecurityMagazine

Yahoo has officially exited China, shutting down all of its services in the communist country as of Monday, Nov. 1. From a report: “In recognition of the increasingly challenging business and legal environment in China, Yahoo’s suite of services will no longer be accessible from mainland China as of November 1,” a company spokesperson said…

Ads will be rolled out on the browser page users see once they end their meeting and free Basic users in certain countries will see these ads if they join meetings that are hosted by other free Basic users. …read more Source:: ZDNet

We say GMT, you say BST, let’s call the whole thing off Sky+ set-top boxes have failed to set themselves back an hour after the UK stumbled from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time last weekend.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Zoom is piloting showing ads to users on its free “Basic” tier, the company has announced in a blog post. From a report: Ads will appear on the browser page shown to users at the end of a call. Zoom says ads are being rolled out to free users in “certain countries,” though its blog…

Need the best Wi-Fi coverage possible? Netgear has you covered. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Back during the 2019 Superconference in Pasadena, I had the chance to go to Northrop Grumman’s Redondo Beach campus to get a look at the James Webb Space Telescope. There is the high-bay class 10,000+ cleanroom in building M8, my wife and I along with fellow space nerd Tom Nardi got a chance to look…

Resellers: Apple is doing OK compared to PC makers A component shortfall is reportedly forcing Apple to divert supplies of essential innards to the iPhone 13 at the expense of the iPad – but European suppliers are not yet seeing elongated lead times for buyers in all but the basic models.… …read more Source:: TheRegister