Chinese Apps and India’s ban – Where do we stand now?
It was in May last year that India and China engaged in a border skirmish that had its echoes in the economic firmament of both countries. The federal government in...
The Raxio Group sets out Pan-African colocation datacentre expansion plans
Pan-African datacentre developer The Raxio Group has set out plans to open colocation facilities in several more countries, having opened its first in Uganda in May 2021. The Ugandan...
Instagram needs your birthday – Here’s why
Instagram, which recently brought in new features to make things safer for youngsters on the platform, is taking more steps in that direction. It will now ask the users who’ve...
Coinbase erroneously reported 2FA changes to 125,000 customers
Enlarge / On Friday afternoon, Coinbase sent email and SMS text messages to 125,000 customers, erroneously telling them that their 2FA settings had been changed. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase sent an...
Not enough backup power: AT&T and T-Mobile suffer big outages in Louisiana
Enlarge / LaPlace, Louisiana: Jacqueline Smith waits with her mother Lucille Matthew for transportation after they were rescued from their flooded neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on August...
China now has over a billion citizens connected to the internet
More than a billion Chinese citizens now use the internet, majority via their smartphones, according to the latest round of figures released by the China Internet Network Information Centre. Parsing their...
A bad solar storm could cause an “Internet apocalypse”
Enlarge / Even if the power comes back after the next big solar storm, the internet may not.Jean Claude Moschetti | REA | REDUX Scientists have known for decades that...
“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure
Enlarge / Cosmos DB is a managed database service offering—including both relational and noSQL data structures—belonging to Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure. Cloud security vendor Wiz announced yesterday that it found...
Need to get root on a Windows box? Plug in a Razer gaming mouse
Razer This weekend, security researcher jonhat disclosed a long-standing security bug in the Synapse software associated with Razer gaming mice. During software installation, the wizard produces a clickable link to the...
Boots leading drive for ‘professionalisation of IT’ in retail
Boots’ CIO for UK and Ireland, Rich Corbridge, says he is “striving for the professionalisation of IT”. In a recent LinkedIn Pulse post, Corbridge – who has been CIO...