Month: June 2021
Unplug your WD My Book Live, or you might find your drive’s data wiped
If you own a WD My Book Live NAS, you should immediately disconnect it from your network — users have discovered that their data has seemingly been deleted off the device, with no action on their part (via Ars Technica). In a post on its community forum, WD says that…
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Google wants to create a standard vocabulary for describing security vulnerabilities Security
Google aims to make open source software more secure by creating a unified schema to describe security vulnerabilities more accurately. Back in February, the search giant released the Open Source Vulnerabilities (OSV) database with the goal of both automating and improving vulnerability triage for developers and those who rely on…
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Kayak co-founder Paul English just launched Moonbeam, a podcast discovery app
Podcast downloads have boomed over the last year, and Kayak co-founder and tech entrepreneur Paul English became an avid, daily listener. But anyone who loves podcasts knows that podcast discovery can be challenging. Even the top streaming apps like Apple Podcasts and Spotify lack robust discovery tools — so last…
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Microsoft is now a $2 trillion company
Microsoft can add ending the day as a $2 trillion company to the list of things it’s accomplished today, alongside announcing Windows 11. That makes it the second American publicly traded company ever to have a market capitalization of over $2 trillion (the other member of the club being Apple,…
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Microsoft is supporting AMD’s answer to DLSS on Xbox consoles
Microsoft is enabling Xbox developers to utilize AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s DLSS on console games. FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) appeared recently on Windows PCs with the aim of boosting frame rates and maintaining image quality. It’s AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) and early tests have shown…
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Reddit is experiencing a major outage
Reddit appears to be down for many right now. The site will regularly take a while to try to load a page before showing an error screen with error code 503. Pages are loading more frequently than when I first published this story, but I see the error page often.…
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