Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense website suffered from what appeared to be a distributed denial of service attack Tuesday, according to the government’s Facebook account. The military’s website remained unavailable as of 12 p.m. PT Tuesday, with the Ukrainian military’s Facebook account saying work is currently underway to restore regular functioning Read more…
In an AWS blog post, Amazon announced that its Elastic File Systems (Amazon EFS) “now provide average latency as low as 600 microseconds for the majority of read operations on data and metadata. “We seem to be approaching the speed of light, even when taking into account IOPS, throughput, and Read more…
In an all-hands meeting at Meta “explaining the company’s updated values,” Mark Zuckerberg says employees are not supposed to “nice ourselves to death,” adding that they are now to be known as “Metamates.” According to the Daily Beast, citing long-time executive Andrew Bosworth, “the term was coined by the cognitive Read more…
Virgin Galactic announced that it’s opening ticket sales to the general public for its spaceflight system, “letting you become an astronaut if you’re willing to pay $450,000 and put down a $150,000 deposit,” reports Engadget. For that $450K, you’ll get a 90-minute ride to the edge of space including the Read more…
Robots are being trialled to deliver food and other items in South Korea, which is planning to allow them on roads from 2023. Woowa Brothers, operator of the country’s biggest food delivery app, started using robots on a trial basis in 2020 while a convenience store chain started in November Read more…
The White House is warning the chip industry to diversify its supply chain in case Russia retaliates against threatened U.S. export curbs by blocking access to key materials, people familiar with the matter said. The potential for retaliation has garnered more attention in recent days after Techcet, a market research Read more…
“Apple said Thursday it plans to add more safeguards to AirTags to cut down on unwanted tracking,” reports CNN, “following reports that the devices have been used to stalk people and steal cars.” In a blog post, Apple said it has worked with safety groups and law enforcement agencies to Read more…