Month: February 2021
‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ debuts on Disney+ on May 4th
Alongside a slew of other Disney+ premiere dates, including one for Marvel's Loki show, Disney has revealed when you'll get to check out Star Wars: The Bad Batch. The first episode of the animated series will arrive on Star Wars Day, May the… Source
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iRobot says it’ll be a few weeks until it can clean up its latest Roomba software update mess
iRobot, maker of the robotic Roomba vacuums, has confirmed to The Verge that a software update has been causing issues for some users of its i7 and s9 robots and that it’s working on another one to prevent future issues. The catch? It might be a bit before things get…
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Disney Plus reveals Loki and Star Wars: The Bad Batch release dates – and more Loki TV Disney Plus
Disney Plus just confirmed a whole host of dates for TV shows like Loki and Star Wars: The Bad Batch, as well as more family-oriented programming like High School Musical: The Musical season 2 and Turner & Hooch. Marvel movies spin-off Loki will now launch on Friday, June 11, with…
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Europe kicks off bid to find a route to ‘better’ gig work
The European Union has kicked off the first stage of a consultation process involving gig platforms and workers. Regional lawmakers have said they want to improve working conditions for people who provide labor via platforms which EU digital policy chief, Margrethe Vestager, accepted in a speech today can be “poor”…
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Google is funding Linux Kernel developers with a special focus on security html code
To further bolster the security credentials of the Linux kernel, Google and the Linux Foundation have decided to fund two kernel developers to work exclusively on security-related developments. The kernel developers, Gustavo Silva and Nathan Chancellor, are long-time kernel developers and have now been tasked to maintain and improve kernel…
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Select Star raises seed to automatically document datasets for data scientists
Back when I was a wee lad with a very security-compromised MySQL installation, I used to answer every web request with multiple “SELECT *” database requests — give me all the data and I’ll figure out what to do with it myself. Today in a modern, data-intensive org, “SELECT *”…
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