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• NXNSAttack technique can be abused for large-scale DDoS attacks

  19-05-2020 23:23 via zdnet.com
  
  New vulnerability in DNS server software can be leveraged for DDoS attacks with an 1620x amplification factor.
  
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• Report: What to expect from your new car in 2030

  19-05-2020 22:53 via zdnet.com
  
  New research forecasts that built-in vehicle connectivity will increase sharply over the next decade
  
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• The car of the future is connected, autonomous, shared, and electric

  19-05-2020 20:25 via zdnet.com
  
  The automotive industry is undergoing massive digital transformation. By 2030, cars will be more connected, autonomous, shared, and electric.
  
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• Stalking: My ex-partner sent me 4,000 emails

  19-05-2020 19:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One victim speaks out about her ordeal as her former partner is convicted of stalking her.
  
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• Microsoft Build 2020: Everything announced and then some

  19-05-2020 19:44 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft Build gets back to its roots with a focus on developers. Go figure.
  
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• Hacker arrested in Ukraine for selling billions of stolen credentials

  19-05-2020 19:36 via zdnet.com
  
  Hacker "Sanix" has been selling billions of hacked user credentials on hacker forums and Telegram channels.
  
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• Facebook develops new AI techniques to one day make "anything shoppable"

  19-05-2020 19:30 via zdnet.com
  
  By improving product segmentation, detection and classification, Facebook is working towards building a holistic AI system for frictionless shopping on Marketplace or Facebook Pages.
  
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• WolfRAT targets WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger app users on Android devices

  19-05-2020 19:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The new malware is unstable and appears to be a slapdash effort based on leaked DenDroid code.
  
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• How an unofficial Club Penguin game turned toxic

  19-05-2020 18:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Disney orders unauthorised copies of its game to close after the BBC exposes their misuse.
  
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• Chrome 83 released with enhanced privacy controls, tab groups feature

  19-05-2020 18:05 via zdnet.com
  
  Chrome 83 is one of the feature-rich Chrome releases in recent years.
  
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• Microsoft buys robotic process automation vendor Softomotive

  19-05-2020 17:46 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft is bringing together Softomotive's RPA products, including WinAutomation, with its Power Automate to make building bots and automating Windows tasks easier.
  
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• Breitling’s rainbow Superocean raises money for health workers

  19-05-2020 17:23
  
  If you’re a fan of Breitling’s Superocean series, there’s more than one reason to be tempted by its latest multi-coloured creation
  
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• Microsoft's hybrid platform, Azure Stack Hub, gets management, machine learning updates

  19-05-2020 17:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft is adding some new incremental features to its hybrid Azure Stack Hub platform, and it's continuing its Azure Arc unified management push at Build 2020.
  
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• Microsoft to open source Fluid Framework; previews end-user experience

  19-05-2020 17:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft's Fluid Framework collaboration and compound document technology is moving forward. The company also is adding new developer features for Teams, along with a new Lists application.
  
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• Microsoft to bring sidebar search, new work-related search page to Chromium-based Edge

  19-05-2020 17:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft is going to start moving all Windows 10 users (minus Enterprise and Education) to the new Edge browser over the next few weeks. It's also continuing to add new consumer and work features to Chredge.
  
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• Microsoft readies more developer tools for its 'Project Cortex' knowledge-management service

  19-05-2020 17:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft's Project Cortex knowledge service is still on track to be generally available this summer. Microsoft has 75 companies privately testing Cortex and is working to get more developers on board.
  
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• Microsoft continues to try to unify Win32, UWP Windows apps with 'Project Reunion'

  19-05-2020 17:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft is continuing its quest to try to get Win32 developers to adopt more 'modern' Windows 10 platform elements. That effort now has a name, Project Reunion, and its first two official libraries.
  
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• Microsoft builds a supercomputer for OpenAI for training massive AI models

  19-05-2020 17:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft is building a supercomputer for and with OpenAI and is using it to train massive distributed AI models, which it is counting on to improve the AI capabilities in its own software and services.
  
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• Microsoft Build brings announcements for cloud data, analytics services, and intersection of the two

  19-05-2020 17:00 via zdnet.com
  
  A series of announcements around Synapse Analytics, Cosmos DB, Azure Database and SQL Edge make this year's Microsoft Build conference a virtual event revealing actual advances and concrete integrations.
  
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• Microsoft announces first vertical cloud offering: Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare

  19-05-2020 17:00 via zdnet.com
  
  At Build 2020, Microsoft is taking the wraps off the first of its planned industry-specific clouds, the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, which is due to start rolling out in Q4 this year.
  
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• Bushfire and floods to blame for TIO complaints in Q3

  19-05-2020 16:01 via zdnet.com
  
  Total complaints reached 32,441 during the quarter, a 13% rise from Q2.
  
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• Zoho launches small business CRM system called Bigin

  19-05-2020 16:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The timing for Zoho's launch is notable given that small businesses have been crushed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
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• Dell overhauls its commercial lineup with new Latitude, Precision and OptiPlex devices

  19-05-2020 16:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Dell's commercial PC strategy revolves around pleasing the remote worker as well as IT.
  
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• Working from home: A government agency tells the truth and it's wonderful

  19-05-2020 15:26 via zdnet.com
  
  It's tempting to think working from home is the new normal. However, one government agency wanted employees to know what it really is. And the message is brilliant.
  
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• GitLab's take on the current state of DevOps

  19-05-2020 15:18 via zdnet.com
  
  A GitLab survey found that DevOps is continuing to gain momentum, but there's plenty of room for improvement when it comes to testing and security.
  
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• Salespeople navigating digital transformation, data, virtual selling in new normal, says LinkedIn

  19-05-2020 15:00 via zdnet.com
  
  A LinkedIn survey highlights how sales departments are struggling and transforming operations to prepare for the post-COVID-19 new normal.
  
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• DevSecOps report: Cloud IT complexity creates 'immutable' security issues

  19-05-2020 15:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Cloud IT deployments can be so complex that security issues cannot be fixed easily -- so they aren't -- raising the attack surface for enterprises.
  
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• Garmin data analysis of the global pandemic: Focused activity increases as people adapt to restrictions

  19-05-2020 14:47 via zdnet.com
  
  While the coronavirus is keeping people from participating in fitness activities they were completing just a couple of months ago, data shows that people are adapting and finding ways to stay healthy. It's important to maintain your fitness during these uncertain times so that you can help your body fight against viruses and other ailments.
  
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• EasyJet hack: 9 million customers hit and 2,000 credit cards exposed

  19-05-2020 14:33 via zdnet.com
  
  Over 2,000 customers' credit-card details have been accessed by "highly sophisticated" hackers.
  
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• Hundreds of thousands of QNAP devices vulnerable to remote takeover attacks

  19-05-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  A firmware patch has been released last year, in November.
  
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• Cell phones have never made customers happier -- wireless carriers, not so much

  19-05-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Customers report less satisfaction this year with data speeds, call reliability and the range of plans offered by their wireless carriers, according to a new survey.
  
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• Uber: We're cutting another 3,000 employees over coronavirus struggles

  19-05-2020 13:52 via zdnet.com
  
  Uber Eats is booming but it's nowhere big enough to make up for plummeting rides.
  
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• Activist philanthropy: eBay founders jump into Google antitrust battle

  19-05-2020 13:29 via zdnet.com
  
  With nearly $1.7 billion in funding from the founders of eBay,the Omidyar Network has set it sights on rooting out inequality and monopolies.
  
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• Walmart Q1 e-commerce sales surge 74% as company shuts down Jet.com, acquired for 3.3b in 2016

  19-05-2020 13:27 via zdnet.com
  
  Jet.com was critical to Walmart's e-commerce strategy and omnichannel efforts, but is no longer necessary.
  
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• Walmart Q1 e-commerce sales surge 74% as company shuts down Jet.com

  19-05-2020 13:27 via zdnet.com
  
  Jet.com was critical to Walmart's e-commerce strategy and omnichannel efforts, but is no longer necessary.
  
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• Accenture snaps up Italy's PLM Systems in digital engineering push

  19-05-2020 13:23 via zdnet.com
  
  Accenture says the acquisition will strengthen its ability to help clients generate, manage and benefit from product data in design, engineering and manufacturing.
  
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• State of Marketing 2020: Innovation is top priority with 186% increase in AI adoption since 2018

  19-05-2020 13:21 via zdnet.com
  
  Salesforce collected data from 7,000 marketing leaders across the globe for its sixth annual “State of Marketing” report. The report demonstrates the values that will remain critical as marketers and their businesses recover.
  
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• Management tips: Four ways to deal with conflict in your team

  19-05-2020 13:09 via zdnet.com
  
  Managers who want to create an effective working environment must make people in their teams feel as if their opinions are valued, even when it feels like their viewpoint is radical.
  
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• Tesla hikes Full Self-Driving add-on by $1,000 – but Elon Musk says it's worth way more

  19-05-2020 13:07 via zdnet.com
  
  Tesla to raise the price of its Full Self-Driving add-on from July 1.
  
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• The end of the supply chain as we know it?

  19-05-2020 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The world is adapting to a new kind of manufacturing. Some companies have a head start.
  
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• France defends 'centralized' coronavirus tracing app, insists privacy held sacred

  19-05-2020 12:15 via zdnet.com
  
  The country says StopCovid could be valuable in preventing a second COVID-19 wave.
  
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• Adventures of a Computational Explorer, book review: Wolfram's world, in 25 essays

  19-05-2020 11:39 via zdnet.com
  
  This wide-ranging but technically dense book covers the life and work of Stephen Wolfram, founder and CEO of the company behind Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Language and more.
  
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• AAEON AI monitoring for fever and mask detection

  19-05-2020 11:17 via zdnet.com
  
  Monitor areas with high-volume foot traffic, such as metro station entrances, for mask compliance and people running a fever.
  
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• How designers rebuilt Centre Point’s famous letters

  19-05-2020 11:00
  
  While the brutalist building’s exterior honeycomb design is distinctive at street level, the letters are what make it stand out across the capital
  
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• Baidu posts 7% revenue decline due to coronavirus

  19-05-2020 09:19 via zdnet.com
  
  Strong video, cloud, and smart device growth for the company, but advertisers have been unwilling to spend.
  
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• Samsung boss visits China to reportedly strengthen government ties

  19-05-2020 08:56 via zdnet.com
  
  Samsung's de factor leader also visited the company's plant based in Xi'an.
  
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• Canberra spent AU$92 million on the now-binned visa privatisation project

  19-05-2020 07:35 via zdnet.com
  
  Boston Consulting Group walked away with AU$43.5 million of the total spend.
  
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• This ball-blaster is just what you need for socially-distanced tennis

  19-05-2020 07:00
  
  This compact launcher can fire 144 tennis balls at 40mph before refilling and fits in the boot of your car
  
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• It looks like the UK’s data regulator has given up, blaming coronavirus

  19-05-2020 07:00
  
  Information Commissioner’s Office has effectively downed tools as a result of the pandemic, raising concerns about outstanding cases and ongoing privacy issues
  
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• I hate gifs and I hope Facebook kills them forever

  19-05-2020 07:00
  
  Facebook has snapped up Giphy and its 700 million users – will this spell the end for the gif, or the rise of a horrible new age of meme-powered disinformation?
  
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