Month: April 2022
Better broadband: CableLabs showcases 10G, the cable connection of the future
Audio player loading… There’s something in the air in Louisville, Colorado — or more specifically, in the wires. Humming along miles of networking cabling, zipping through signal repeaters: It’s the future of the Internet. On Thursday morning at the home of CableLabs — which bills itself as “the leading innovation…
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BioWare contractors want a union
A group of contractors supporting EA-owned BioWare is trying to unionize. Part of the reason is because they’ll be required to return to the office, even while full-time BioWare employees who work at the same location are being offered a hybrid work from home option, two employees told The Verge.…
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The ‘Overwatch 2’ beta brings fresh content to a stale game
My love of indie games and weird hardware is well documented, but I have to admit it here: The game I’ve sunk the most hours into is Overwatch. I’ve been playing since it came out in 2016, mostly on PlayStation, but I also have accounts on Xbox and PC. I…
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Nasty WordPress plugin bug puts thousands of sites at risk
Audio player loading… A high-severity vulnerability recently discovered in a WordPress plugin put some 60,000 websites at risk of website takeover, data exfiltration, or remote code execution. This is according to the Wordfence Threat Intelligence, a research team that hunts for bugs in one of the world’s most popular CMS…
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VMware calls off ban on SD cards as boot devices for vSphere
Audio player loading… VMware is no longer set to withdraw support for non-persistent removable storage as a boot medium for vSphere, the company’s server virtualization platform. The virtual machine software provider announced in September 2021 that storage tools such as SD cards and USB flash drives would gradually have their…
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Netflix is losing Schitt’s Creek as streaming rival snaps it up
Audio player loading… Schitt’s Creek is leaving Netflix in the fall, it was confirmed this week. The comedy. which ran for six seasons, will move from Netflix to Hulu in the US this autumn, with October 3 being its final day on Netflix. At the moment, the move is only…
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