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Microsoft’s profits continue to climb.
Profit and sales at the tech giant, the first of the largest tech companies to report earnings for the three months ending in December, grew about 20 percent.
A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on every major Linux distro
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Linux users on Tuesday got a major dose of bad news—a 12-year-old vulnerability in a system tool called Polkit gives attackers unfettered root privileges on machines running any major distribution of the open source operating system. Previously called PolicyKit, Polkit manages system-wide privileges in Unix-like OSes. It provides a mechanism for...
Booby-trapped sites delivered potent new backdoor trojan to macOS users
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have uncovered advanced, never-before-seen macOS malware that was installed using exploits that were almost impossible for most users to detect or stop once the users landed on a malicious website. The malware was a full-featured backdoor that was written from scratch, an indication that the developers behind it have significant...
Starlink preps rugged user terminal that may avoid “thermal shutdown” problem
Enlarge / The current Starlink user terminal. Images of the planned ruggedized terminal aren’t available yet. (credit: Starlink) SpaceX’s Starlink division is planning a new ruggedized satellite dish that can operate in hotter and colder temperatures. This is the second ruggedized Starlink dish the company has revealed—the first is designed for vehicles, ships, and aircraft,...
(BPRW) Award-Winning Music Competition The Mic: Africa Announces Season 2 Winners
(Black PR Wire) GLOBAL – Two-time Telly Award-winning music competition and docu-series The Mic: Africa – the first interactive TV format born on the continent – has announced its winning artists for Season 2. Tanzanian emcee, YEYO, aka &ldquo
Why Is Silicon Valley Still Waiting for the Next Big Thing?
The tech industry has grown ever more rich off big ideas that were developed more than a decade ago. New things like quantum computing and self-driving cars could take a while.
Four Attorneys General Sue Google Over Privacy Claims
Three states and the District of Columbia allege that the tech giant misled consumers by continuing to track those who had changed their privacy settings to prevent data collection.
Dark Souls servers taken down following discovery of critical vulnerability
Enlarge (credit: The_Grim_Sleeper) Bandai Namco, publisher of the Dark Souls role-playing game series, has taken down its player-versus-player servers while it investigates reports of a serious vulnerability that allows players to execute malicious code on the PCs of fellow players. Word of the critical remote-code-execution flaw emerged over the weekend in Reddit threads here and...
AT&T announces multi-gigabit fiber: $110 a month for 2Gbps, $180 for 5Gbps
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | zf L) AT&T has started offering 2Gbps and 5Gbps symmetrical Internet speeds over its fiber-to-the-home network, the telecom company announced today. The multi-gigabit speeds are available to “nearly 5.2 million customer locations in parts of more than 70 metro areas, such as LA, Atlanta, and Dallas,” AT&T said. AT&T is...









