Last week America’s Internal Revenue Service announced a live-video-feed verification of taxpayer’s faces would be required by this summer access online tax service. But now the Washington Post reports that “complaints of confusing instructions and long wait times to complete the sign-up have caused an unknown number to abandon the Read more…
Microsoft’s Azure DDoS Protection team said that in November, it fended off what industry experts say is likely the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack ever: a torrent of junk data with a throughput of 3.47 terabits per second. The record DDoS came from more than 10,000 sources located in at least Read more…
China Unicom has become the latest Chinese telecoms giant to be banned from the US over “significant” national security and espionage concerns. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it had voted unanimously to revoke authorization for the company’s American unit to operate in the US. The firm must stop providing Read more…
At least 26 public corporations are holding bitcoin on their balance sheets, according to data compiled by cryptocurrency analytics firm CoinGecko. Since the price of cryptocurrencies began to plummet in November, they’ve collectively lost nearly $7 billion. Quartz reports: The price of Bitcoin peaked above $67,000 on Nov. 8, but Read more…
This little 6-frame wonder was create by Scott Prentice in 1989 on a Commodore Amiga @ Concordia University’s MITE AVISTA LAB. My soul has enjoyed countless hours of pure happiness thanks to this little guy.
Apple “beat analyst estimates for sales in every product category except iPads and overall revenue was up 11% annually.” This is despite global supply chain challenges caused by the covid-19 pandemic. Here is how Apple did in the quarter ending Dec. 25 versus Refinitiv consensus estimates (via CNBC): EPS: $2.10 Read more…
Elderly people living near or downwind from unconventional oil and gas wells such as fracking sites are more likely to die prematurely, according to a major new US study. Extracting oil and gas through newer or unconventional methods like fracking has expanded rapidly across America over the past two decades Read more…