Month: December 2022
Elon Musk starts banning critical journalists from Twitter
Twitter has suspended the accounts of several prominent reporters on Twitter, such as The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, The Intercept’s Micha Lee, Mashable’s Matt Binder, Aaron Rupar, Tony Webster, and potentially more. A list of the suspensions is being compiled by…
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Twitter suspends Mastodon after it tweeted about Elon’s jet
Twitter has suspended the official Twitter account of Mastodon, one of the most popular destinations for people seeking a Twitter-like alternative. If you visit @joinmastodon’s profile, you’ll see a message that the account has been suspended. We don’t know exactly why the account was banned, but it may not have…
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Google’s stranglehold on the mapping space could be challenged by new initiative from Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and others
Meta, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and mapping company TomTom have launched a new mapping initiative in partnership with The Linux Foundation that could challenge the dominance Google holds in the mapping world, TechCrunch reports. The recently launched Overture Maps Foundation aims to encourage the development of new map products…
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Tim Sweeney wants Epic to help build a metaverse that’s actually positive
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney laid out what he called his “grand vision” for the company in a livestream on Thursday, and it might not be surprising that the company that builds Fortnite wants to help usher in the best version of the metaverse. According to Sweeney, Epic wants to…
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Microsoft bans cryptomining in Azure
Audio player loading… Microsoft has officially banned cryptomining within its Azure cloud services in a rather inconspicuous way. An update (opens in new tab) to its Universal License Terms for Online Services, which mainly applies to its cloud platform, states that “mining cryptocurrency is prohibited without prior Microsoft approval.” The…
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Microsoft has found a whole load of IoT and industrial cyber flaws
Audio player loading… Microsoft has identified a huge number of IoT security issues, finding unpatched, high-severity vulnerabilities in 75% of the most common industrial controllers in customer operational technology (OT) networks. The tech giant’s research also found that 72% of the software exploits utilized by what Microsoft terms “Incontroller” are…
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