New Twitter owner Elon Musk has signalled a potential interest in reviving Vine, the social video app Twitter gave up on six years ago. In the last few hours the self styled “Chief Twit”) has tweeted a yes/no poll to his 112.4M followers — pithily positing: “Bring back Vine?”. The question — whether serious product…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
More than 12,000 poorly configured Microsoft servers have been discovered being abused to conduct impressively potent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Cybersecurity researchers from Black Lotus Labs uncovered a total of 12,142 servers sporting Microsoft domain controllers hosting the company’s Active Directory services that were being used by multiple malware variants to magnify the…
Apple has some new Macs on the horizon, but we won’t see these devices this year sadly – the fresh hardware supposedly won’t turn up until early 2023. This is the latest from well-known leaker Mark Gurman, who made the prediction in his newsletter as published by Bloomberg. The theory is – stay sceptical as…
It looks like Instagram is down. Millions of users have been trying to scroll through their feed on the app, but rather than being brought with photos or reels, people are discovering that their accounts are locked out. As of the afternoon of Monday, October 31, Instagram seems incapable of letting many users access their…
Elon Musk speaking at the ONS 2022 oil and gas conference in Norway. Reuters Elon Musk said reports he’s speeding up layoffs to avoid paying out stock grants are false. Musk is set to lay off workers before Tuesday, when they’re scheduled to receive stock grants, per the NYT. Media reports suggest that Musk may…
Samuel Corum/Getty Images The Fed’s last interest rate hike is poised to happen in December, according to Pantheon Macro.That’s because the labor market and wage is inflation is finally showing signs of cooling down.“Don’t be deceived by low and stable initial claims; labor demand is slowing markedly,” Pantheon said. A Fed pivot in its interest…
Rebecca Zisser/Insider Hong Kong is considering a plan to allow retail investors to trade cryptocurrencies. The new proposal could also allow future offerings of real estate security tokens. If it goes through, the plan would mark a further divergence from mainland China, which has banned crypto trading. Hong Kong is weighing a proposal to allow…
The data: Total US credit card balances hit $916 billion in September—reaching pre-pandemic levels for the first time, according to Equifax data cited by the Wall Street Journal. Balances in September mirrored December 2019 levels and were 23% higher than their pandemic low in April 2021. Read the original article on Business Insider Read More
Instagram Reels CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images Instagram confirmed it’s having issues on Monday. Some users took to Twitter to complain they had been randomly suspended. Outage reports surged at Downdetector. It’s not just you — Instagram is having issues. The company confirmed it was experiencing problems on Monday morning. “We’re aware that some of…
The news: The four largest UK banks released their Q3 2022 earnings and outlooks for 2023. The results showed the banks in relatively strong financial positions, but the economic downturn in the UK has banks on guard. Read the original article on Business Insider Read More