Month: April 2023

[CuriousMarc] Repairs a Floppy

[CuriousMarc] has a pile of 8-inch drives, all marked bad. You can’t just pop over to the computer store and buy a new one these days, so it was off to the repair bench. Although the target drive would do a quick seek,  once it was in use, it just kind of shut down. So

Read More
[CuriousMarc] Repairs a Floppy

[CuriousMarc] has a pile of 8-inch drives, all marked bad. You can’t just pop over to the computer store and buy a new one these days, so it was off to the repair bench. Although the target drive would do a quick seek,  once it was in use, it just kind of shut down. So

Read More
Google rolls out a Chrome security update to patch a zero-day, exploited in the wild, due to a high-severity type confusion weakness in the V8 JavaScript engine (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google rolls out a Chrome security update to patch a zero-day, exploited in the wild, due to a high-severity type confusion weakness in the V8 JavaScript engine  —  Google has released an emergency Chrome security update to address the first zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks since the start of the year.

Read More
Numerous public service Twitter accounts, including for US National Weather Service offices, say they can’t automatically post all alerts due to new API rules (Matt Binder/Mashable)

Matt Binder / Mashable: Numerous public service Twitter accounts, including for US National Weather Service offices, say they can’t automatically post all alerts due to new API rules  —  Twitter’s new API rules just blocked numerous National Weather Service alert accounts and others from working.

Read More
Amid an AI stocks frenzy, enterprise AI company CXApp’s stock closed at $13.85 on April 14, up from a $1.33 closing on April 11, taking its market cap to ~$164M (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)

Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Amid an AI stocks frenzy, enterprise AI company CXApp’s stock closed at $13.85 on April 14, up from a $1.33 closing on April 11, taking its market cap to ~$164M  —  CXApp Inc. soared 94% on Friday, bringing its rally over the past three days to 941% on the back of

Read More
Twitter faces a backlash in Brazil after initially resisting 500+ government requests to take down posts and profiles suspected of inspiring violence in schools (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Twitter faces a backlash in Brazil after initially resisting 500+ government requests to take down posts and profiles suspected of inspiring violence in schools  —  Twitter is facing condemnation in Latin America’s largest economy for its laissez-faire approach on content suspected of inspiring violence in schools.

Read More
How the US military, which uses Twitch and Discord for recruitment, struggles with the risks posed by Gen Z service members who live much of their lives online (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: How the US military, which uses Twitch and Discord for recruitment, struggles with the risks posed by Gen Z service members who live much of their lives online  —  Defense officials told service members not to ‘post anything in Discord that you wouldn’t want seen by the general public.’ But

Read More
Twitter faces a backlash in Brazil after initially resisting 500+ government requests to take down posts and profiles suspected of inspiring violence in schools (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Twitter faces a backlash in Brazil after initially resisting 500+ government requests to take down posts and profiles suspected of inspiring violence in schools  —  Twitter is facing condemnation in Latin America’s largest economy for its laissez-faire approach on content suspected of inspiring violence in schools.

Read More
Numerous public service Twitter accounts, including for US National Weather Service offices, say they can’t automatically post all alerts due to new API rules (Matt Binder/Mashable)

Matt Binder / Mashable: Numerous public service Twitter accounts, including for US National Weather Service offices, say they can’t automatically post all alerts due to new API rules  —  Twitter’s new API rules just blocked numerous National Weather Service alert accounts and others from working.

Read More
This Modern QA Software Offers Customer Retention Solutions in a Difficult Economy

Entrepreneurs and executives are scrambling to recession-proof their businesses this year amid a looming economic downturn and a still-tight labor market. Among many other strategies, they want to reduce costs with Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). BPOs are not a new phenomenon. Companies have outsourced non-core functions like accounting, legal, HR, and customer service for decades.

Read More
The US SEC reopens public comment for a draft rule that expands its crypto regulatory power, adding explicit language covering digital asset and DeFi exchanges (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)

Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: The US SEC reopens public comment for a draft rule that expands its crypto regulatory power, adding explicit language covering digital asset and DeFi exchanges  —  The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday altered a proposed rule to make more explicit that digital-asset exchanges …

Read More