The project began 18 months ago as a simple concept: Count every known U.S. case at the time. When the virus grew exponentially, so did the efforts to document it.
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“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted
Enlarge (credit: Western Digital) Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending customers unplug My Disk Live storage devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped data from devices around the world. The mass incidents of disk wiping came to light...
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Hackers are using unknown user accounts to target Zyxel firewalls and VPNs
Enlarge (credit: Zyxel) Network device maker Zyxel is warning customers of active and ongoing attacks that are targeting a range of the company’s firewalls and other types of security appliances. In an email, the company said that targeted devices included security appliances that have remote management or SSL VPN enabled, namely in the USG/ZyWALL, USG...
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No End to Whiplash in Meme Stocks, Crypto and More
With the pandemic starting to ease in the United States, many had expected a year of wild investments to slow. It hasn’t. Yet.
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Turn Tech to Your Advantage in the New Hybrid Workplace
With people splitting work hours between office and home, it can be a challenge to figure out what tools to use in which situation.
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What Is Facebook?
Facebook keeps dabbling in new things. Is it now an overstuffed mess, or a genius idea factory?
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BuzzFeed Closes In on Deal to Go Public
The digital publisher is said to be on the verge of announcing a SPAC merger that would take the company public.
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John McAfee Dies in Spanish Prison
Mr. McAfee, who has not been associated with the company that bears his name for more than two decades, was fighting extradition to the United States after his arrest in Spain.
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AV mogul John McAfee found dead by hanging in Spanish prison cell
Enlarge / John McAfee on his yacht off the coast of Cuba in 2019. (credit: Adalberto ROQUE / AFP / Getty) John McAfee—the antivirus tycoon whose eccentric and often illegal antics on yachts and in tropical rain forests came to define him in later years—took his own life in a Spanish prison cell shortly after...
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Altice is reducing cable-Internet upload speeds by up to 86% next month
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | buzbuzzer) Altice is slashing its cable-Internet upload speeds by up to 86 percent starting on July 12. Altice Optimum Online plans that currently have advertised upload speeds of 35Mbps will be reduced to uploads of either 5Mbps, 10Mbps, or 20Mbps, depending on the plan. Altice did not announce any immediate...