October 2021 – Page 11 – MSI Net, Inc. & mCloudServ

Europol announces the arrest of two alleged ransomware gang members in Ukraine, with help from US and French authorities, as some think they may belong to REvil (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)

Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: Europol announces the arrest of two alleged ransomware gang members in Ukraine, with help from US and French authorities, as some think they may belong to REvil — Two members of a ransomware gang were arrested in Ukraine following a joint international law enforcement operation.

EPOS announced its latest premium gaming headset

A new gaming headset from a trusted audio company. What you need to know EPOS announced the H6PRO Series gaming headset. It comes in either next-gen closed acoustic or open acoustic. There are three colors: Sebring Black, Ghost White, or Racing Green. The H6PRO has a retail price of $179 USD/$259 CAD. Category Spec Compatibility

Kinetic Synth-Kebab Sculpture Plays Punk Sequentially

What’s better than an Atari Punk Console synthesizer? How about four Atari Punk Console synthesizers. And what better way to present them but as brass wire art sculptures. We’d have forgiven [iSax] if he’d stopped at four brass wire synths, but he took things to another level with his kinetic sculpture that does double duty

Frances Haugen’s prepared Senate testimony: Facebook putting profits over safety has resulted in a system that amplifies division, extremism, and polarization (Reuters)

Reuters: Frances Haugen’s prepared Senate testimony: Facebook putting profits over safety has resulted in a system that amplifies division, extremism, and polarization — Former Facebook (FB.O) employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen will urge the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to regulate the social media giant …

Rent the Runway, whose online marketplace offers subscription fashion rentals, files for IPO and reports loss of $84.7M on revenue of $80.2M in H1 2021 (Lauren Thomas/CNBC)

Lauren Thomas / CNBC: Rent the Runway, whose online marketplace offers subscription fashion rentals, files for IPO and reports loss of $84.7M on revenue of $80.2M in H1 2021 — – Rent the Runway filed for an initial public offering on Monday and revealed its subscriber base tumbled during the Covid pandemic but has since

What’s On Your Bank Card? Hacker Tool Teaches All About NFC and RFID

The Flipper Zero hacker tool is a multipurpose hacker tool that aims to make the world of hardware hacking more accessible with a slick design, wide array of capabilities, and a fantastic looking UI. They are struggling with manufacturing delays like everyone else right now, but there’s a silver lining: the team’s updates are genuinely

Facebook has finally given a reason for the six-hour outage Monday

Facebook was down for six hours on Monday | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook said in a blog post Monday night that the six-hour outage that took it offline along with Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp, and OculusVR was the result of a configuration change to its routers — not of a hack or

Facebook says configuration changes on its backbone routers disrupted network traffic between its data centers, causing an outage across its platforms (Santosh Janardhan/Facebook Engineering)

Santosh Janardhan / Facebook Engineering: Facebook says configuration changes on its backbone routers disrupted network traffic between its data centers, causing an outage across its platforms — To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms.

Filing: GitLab is looking to raise as much as $624M in its US IPO, targeting a valuation of ~$9B; GitLab was valued at $6B in a January secondary share sale (Sohini Podder/Reuters)

Sohini Podder / Reuters: Filing: GitLab is looking to raise as much as $624M in its US IPO, targeting a valuation of ~$9B; GitLab was valued at $6B in a January secondary share sale — GitLab Inc, a coding platform backed by the likes of ICONIQ Capital and Khosla Ventures, is looking to raise as

London-based freight forwarding and supply chain finance startup Beacon raises $50M Series B led by Northstar.vc, claims revenue has grown 12x in the last year (VentureBeat)

VentureBeat: London-based freight forwarding and supply chain finance startup Beacon raises $50M Series B led by Northstar.vc, claims revenue has grown 12x in the last year — Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.

Stable, a risk management platform to help businesses limit their exposure to potential volatility in commodity prices, raises $46.5M Series A led by Greycroft (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Stable, a risk management platform to help businesses limit their exposure to potential volatility in commodity prices, raises $46.5M Series A led by Greycroft — Stable, an insurtech aiming to help minimize a businesses’ risk due to volatile commodity prices, today announced …

Deirdre O’Brien and Lisa Jackson among Fortune’s ‘Most Powerful Women’

What you need to know Apple’s Deirdre O’Brien and Lisa Jackson have made Fortune’s “Most Powerful Women” list. O’Brien is Apple’s Senior Vice President of Retail and People. Jackson is the company’s Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives. Two Apple executives are the most powerful women in the world. Fortune has published this

BrandPost: How to Layer Secure Docker Containers With Hardened Images

As organizations mature their utilization of the cloud, they find more innovative and effective solutions for their workloads. For example, containerized applications offer portability, high efficiency, and faster app start-up. These are just a few reasons why Gartner reports that by 2023, “70% of applications deployed in the cloud will use containers as a packaging

How to Advance Your Career as a Software Developer

Software development is a high-demand field with lots of future advancement potential – but that doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed to be a success just because you’ve entered this industry. In fact, many software engineers and programmers end up stagnating after just a few years because they aren’t sure how to advance their careers. Fortunately, there

Apple TV+ to premiere new Peanuts special in celebration of New Years

What you need to know A new Peanuts special is coming to Apple TV+. “For Auld Lang Syne” will celebrate New Year’s Eve. The special will premiere on the streaming service on Friday, December 10. Another Peanuts holiday special is on the way. A new Peanuts special is coming to Apple TV+. As reported by

Initial inventory of the Apple Watch Series 7 could be ‘very limited’

What you need to know Inventory of the Apple Watch Series 7 could be “very limited” at launch. Apple leaker Jon Prosser says mass production only began last month. This could cause availability issues when preorders begin on Friday. Get those preorder thumbs ready. If you are planning to be one of the first people

Removing Threadlocked Screws with a Soldering Iron

We’ve all been there – that last stubborn screw, the one thing between you and some real progress on a repair or restoration. It’s stuck tight with thread-locking fluid, and using more torque threatens to strip the head. Frustration mounting, drilling that sucker out is starting to seem pretty tempting. But wait! [Daniel] offers a

Losing Facebook is bad, but losing WhatsApp is worse

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the chaos of Monday’s Facebook outage, it’s easy to lose sight of the company’s reach. Not being able to post a new photo to Instagram is an annoyance, but it’s not necessarily catastrophic. Yet for WhatsApp users, especially outside of the US, losing Facebook’s encrypted messaging service

Apple no longer signing iOS or iPadOS 14.8 for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch

What you need to know Apple has stopped signing iOS 14.8. Users will no longer be able to install iOS 14.8 on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The only version of iOS that is now available to be installed is iOS 15. We must all say goodbye to the past at some point. Apple

Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin has a new demo, and it’s awesome

Square Enix Square Enix released Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin’s second demo, showing off a little bit more of what we can expect from the action-oriented Final Fantasy spinoff. The demo gets… interesting. In one cutscene, Jack, the main character, peaced out after a boss fight in hilarious fashion. Players shared the cutscene all

Mephisto Hints Which Future is Marvel’s Actual Sacred Timeline

WARNING: Spoilers ahead for Amazing Spider-Man #74 As one of the greatest sources of evil in the Marvel Comics universe, the demon Mephisto has access to all sorts of secrets the likes of which would bring other characters to their knees – including the truth about the Marvel Universe’s real Sacred Timeline and what it means

Hellraiser: The 5 Best & 5 Worst Cenobites In The Whole Franchise

The Hellraiser series introduced a new type of monster to the horror movie genre, but they were far from stereotypical. These creatures embodied the most twisted elements of pleasure and pain. Behind-the-scenes Hellraiser facts reveal a nightmarish collage of sadomasochism, artistic expression, and even a code of honor that reflected on their reputation. RELATED: The Real

Tabletop RPGs That Are Easy To Play Through Text Messages

Online roleplaying has surged in popularity over the past year and a half, with some tabletop gamers using virtual tabletop sites like Roll20 to play classic RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons. However, others have started participating in narrative “Play By Post” RPGs on forums and chat clients like Discord. The RPG systems below are particularly good choices for players who want

How to Fight a Mock Battle in The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War

Fighting battles are a major part of The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War, but, oddly enough, so are mock battles. Why would anyone want to fight mock battles when there are so many real battles to be fought? Mock battles don’t allow players to conquer more territory in The Lord of the Rings:

What is BGP, and how might it have helped kick Facebook off the internet?

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Monday, Facebook was completely knocked offline, taking Instagram and WhatsApp (not to mention a few other websites) down with it. Many have been quick to say that the incident had to do with BGP, or Border Gateway Protocol, citing sources from inside Facebook, traffic analysis, and the

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