Month: July 2022
A major Rogers outage is affecting 911 calls and internet access in parts of Canada
Rogers has acknowledged a major outage in parts of Canada this morning, affecting cellular and internet connectivity. Downdetector has thousands of reports of issues with Rogers, and problems seem to have started at around 5AM ET. Another third-party service tracker is reporting Rogers outages across Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal. Rogers…
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Engadget Podcast: How bad is the Supreme Court’s EPA ruling?
This week, Devindra and Senior Writer Sam Rutherford dive into the Supreme Court’s latest EPA ruling, which severely limits the agency’s ability to curtail power plant emissions. Devindra also chats with ProPublica reporter Lisa Song about what this means for the EPA and other federal agencies. (Basically, it makes fighting…
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QNAP warns yet another wave of attacks are targeting NAS devices
Audio player loading… At this point, it’s probably easier to count ransomware strains that haven’t struck QNAP NAS devices (opens in new tab) than those that have, with Checkmate the latest to be accused of targeting network-attached storage endpoints. The company has warned users that their internet-connected NAS drives (opens…
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Speedway’s Mini 4 Pro Is a Great City-Friendly Electric Scooter
This relatively lightweight escooter gets nearly everything right. Source
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The Morning After: Tesla’s ‘open’ Supercharger network
When Tesla first launched its network of Supercharger stations, they were just for Teslas. But with increasing rival EVs, demand for charging station access has steadily risen, prompting Tesla to begin opening its existing charger network to third-party EVs. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted last year that the company’s open-access…
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Microsoft rolls back blocking Office VBA macros by default
Microsoft is rolling back a planned change to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default in a variety of Office apps. Announced earlier this year, Microsoft had been planning to prevent Office users from easily enabling certain content in files downloaded from the internet that include macros, in…
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