Matt Butcher and Radu Matei worked on container technologies for years, “containers” in this context referring to software packages containing all the necessary elements to run in any environment, from desktop PCs to servers. As engineers at Deis, and then DeisLabs once Microsoft acquired it in 2017, their team explored the container landscape and built…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Apple has always been shy when it comes to bright, vivid colors. Gadgets with the Apple logo are traditionally some shade of gray, and even those that come in a wider variety of colors are typically quite subdued. As you can see in our analysis of pink gadget history here, Apple has mostly reserved the…
Apple’s sixth-generation iPad Pro is a simple affair: It’s almost entirely the same as last year’s iPad Pro, with one key difference: Apple’s new M2 processor. It’s powerful and great to use as a tablet, but it’s still far from becoming a truly versatile laptop replacement. It’s all about the M2 and iPadOS 16 The…
More than one in every ten GitHub repositories sharing exploit proof-of-concepts could be holding some form of malware or malicious content, putting software developers and cybersecurity researchers at plenty of risk, experts have found. GitHub is used, among other things, to share proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for various vulnerabilities. That helps researchers and developers verify existing…
Steam broke a major milestone in terms of concurrent gamers using the platform at the weekend, exceeding the 30 million mark. As Tom’s Hardware spotted, the number of gamers simultaneously on Steam reached 30,032,005 on October 23. Note that there’s a distinction here regarding those active users, as they were not necessarily simultaneously playing games…
If you asked us to compile a list of possible products Focal might conceptualise, research, craft and release next, pebble-shaped, stone-colored outdoor speakers would feature precisely nowhere on it – but that doesn’t mean we’re not onboard. The French high-end audio specialist (see the most recent Focal Bathys and Focal Utopia – aka some of the…
Rishi Sunak speaks in the House of Commons, London, February 3 2022. ©UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor Rishi Sunak is due to become the UK’s next prime minister after the chaotic departure of Liz Truss. The former finance minister won a vote of MPs after Truss’s economic plans left Britain in tumult. Sunak is the country’s third…
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Mohamed El-Erian. Getty Images The Fed’s rapid rate-hiking pace is significantly increasing risks to financial stability, economist Mohamed El-Erian warned. In a Bloomberg column, he pointed to risks in bond markets and said non-banks that are less regulated have become the weakest links. “The faster the rate-increase cycle, the greater the risk of large financial…
Xinhua/Wang Ying/ Getty Images The Fed is realizing inflation is a smaller “black hole of pain” than previously thought, Fundstrat said. The firm pointed to softer comments from Fed officials that suggested a pause in December. A pivot on rate hikes could lead stocks to rally 16% through the end of this year, Fundstrat said. …