Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) FishPig, a UK-based maker of e-commerce software used by as many as 200,000 websites, is urging customers to reinstall or update all existing program extensions after discovering a security breach of its distribution server that allowed criminals to surreptitiously backdoor customer systems. The unknown threat actors used their control of FishPig’s…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Enlarge / Microsoft’s event teaser image is a colorful riff on the Windows 11 desktop wallpaper bloom, with handwritten “save the date” text that evokes the Surface Pen. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is planning a product event for 10 am Eastern on October 12, 2022. The announcement page doesn’t give much away—it’s a multi-colored version of…
Enlarge / The gang (and the other gang) is all here! Even though Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope is a sequel to a well-loved crossover, it’s still hard to fathom that it’s a real game. Blending the distinct worlds of Nintendo’s iconic Super Mario franchise and Ubisoft’s raving, oddball Rabbids series, the original Mario…
Enlarge (credit: picture alliance via Getty) The United States gets about 40 percent of its electricity from carbon-free sources, including renewables and nuclear, and researchers have a pretty good idea of how to cost-effectively get to about 90 percent. But that last 10 percent? It gets expensive, and there is little agreement about how to…
Mass personalization through data is key to innovation in higher education, according to Anthology CEO Jim Milton. Here’s how the company is moving forward after last year’s Blackboard merger to enable data-informed decisions across the university.Read More
Apple’s updated AirPods Pro help you escape crowded spaces while presenting music that never feels overly compressed. Tony Ware We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Some people think cucumbers taste better pickled. Butter vs. margarine. Coke vs. Pepsi. There are plenty of times things look…
Auroras shimmer above the Pacific Northwest in images taken from the International Space Station in 2016. ESA/NASA The autumnal equinox is upon us, and vibrant falling leaves aren’t the only things returning to our skies. The aurora borealis, a.k.a. the northern lights, will begin to dazzle in high-latitude skies far more often. But why? Popular…
As of January of this year, there are more than 18 million cancer survivors, compared to only 3 million 1971. Pexels The American Association for Cancer Research’s 12th annual Cancer Progress Report came with some welcome good news this year. Rates of cancer in the United States are falling steadily and more people are surviving…
Heading into the final days of the third quarter, I am looking forward to more than just a new sheaf of data concerning venture capital flows around the world. When September wraps, we’ll start a countdown for earnings reports from consumer-serving fintech giants, data that will help us understand present-day market appetite for trading and…
A jury in a Texas federal court has ordered Meta to pay walkie-talkie app company Voxer more than $174.5 million in damages, according to court documents filed on Wednesday. Voxer, the creator of the Walkie Talkie app, first filed its lawsuit against Meta (formerly known as Facebook) in 2020 after it accused the company of…