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The city of New Orleans is dealing with a cyber-attack. The nature of the cyber-attack has not yet been determined at the time of writing, but the incident bears the classic signs of a ransomware infection.
The attack was discovered e…
Seeking to ultimately reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules, Mozilla, Etsy, 22 state governments and several other petitioners have filed an appeal to an October court ruling that effectively greenlit the FCC’s reversal of net neutrality regulations…
In early 2018, I learned all about 5G at Qualcomm’s 5G Day event in San Diego, but I was skeptical we would actually see 5G networks and phones that support the networks until at least 2020. It turns out that all major carriers have some level of …
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The team behind npm, the biggest package manager for JavaScript libraries, has issued a security alert yesterday, advising all users to update to the latest version (6.13.4) to prevent “binary planting” attacks.
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As you pick your favorite smartphone, it’s also important to consider what network you will be using with that phone. Deciphering different plans from the four major US carriers, and then throwing in all of the MVNO options, can be daunting. Swappa …
Perhaps the most famous vintage baseball player of all time was the Big Ban, the Colossus of Clout, the Behemoth of Bust, the Mammoth of Maul, the Wall of Wallop, the King of Swing, the Terrible TItan, George Herman “Babe” Ruth, Jr., himself. If you’d …
Usually the most underappreciated, hard-to-deliver, and flat-out-difficult of strategic activities in any major IT project is the integration of multiple systems or sources of data together to help support a new unified business solution. Long a one-of…
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Famed anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” In his latest book, People Powered, community expert Jon…
Mozilla announced this week that all developers of Firefox add-ons must enable a two-factor authentication (2FA) solution for their account.
“Starting in early 2020, extension developers will be required to have 2FA enabled on AMO [the Mozilla Add-On…
Can there be a holy monopoly?
Screenshot by ZDNetI want to be everything to you. I really do.
I realize, however, that I can’t be because I don’t know enough about, oh, Marvel movies, coding and the alluiring softness of Allbirds.
So I accept my fai…
