Microsoft has linked the exploitation of several Windows and Adobe zero-days targeting organizations in Europe and Central America to a little-known Austrian spyware maker. The technology giant’s threat intelligence and security response units have linked a number of cyberattacks to a threat actor it calls “Knotweed,” better known as the Vienna-based intelligence-gathering company, Decision Supporting…
Fly.io co-founder and CEO Kurt Mackey says that developers don’t really understand the term edge computing. They just know they want to run their applications closer to the user to make them more responsive. He believes that the traditional way of doing this with a content delivery network (CDN) is a flawed approach, and he…
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Peacock, the streaming service of Comcast’s NBCUniversal, ended the second quarter with 13 million paid subscribers, parent company Comcast reported this morning. In the first quarter, there were 13 million paying customers out of 28 million monthly active accounts. This means that Peacock’s paid subscriber base, as of the end of June, stalled with zero…
After Snap’s poorly received Q1 digest and ahead of this week’s string of earnings reports from the largest U.S. tech companies, we wondered whether the advertising market is in trouble. Not that most folks associate Microsoft or Apple with advertising the way they may with Alphabet or Meta, but the majors — Amazon and Apple…
The Southern Ring Nebula looks as though a bomb dropped into an ocean, tsunami waves surging away, into the darkness. Cosmic light, presented in the colors of a lapis stone, seems to fill a gaping crater in space. For fatalists the world over, gazing into this planetary nebula some 2,500 light-years away may not have…
A first brief glimpse at Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has been offered up in the form of a new teaser and you can see it below: Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy and is a biopic of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer. It will chart Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. The…
Video editing is coming to Google Photos soon, allowing users to live out their film-making dreams – however, there may be some limitations. Users will soon be able to create and edit movies in just a couple of taps, as revealed in a lengthy Google blog post outlining the new movie-making features – and a…
Wix has upgraded its website builder with the launch of a new editor offering a personalized web creation tool for each individual user. The launch essentially sees the company combine its Wix Artificial Design Intelligence (ADI) features with its classic Wix Editor, offering new themes, section layout suggestions for design optimization, as well as a…
Microsoft is reportedly preparing to lobby the US government to ensure that large-scale cloud computing contracts are spread out between different vendors. Sources reported by the Wall Street Journal claim the tech giant is in the process of rallying other big players such as Google Cloud and Oracle to persuade Washington into taking what’s known…