Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF's team says the plugin was taken away “without consent”
It's super late at night on Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. Edward Targett / The Stack : Wordpress Wars: Forking crazy nuclear takeover triggers fury Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : WordPress Forcefully Take...
Iran has emerged as the most aggressive foreign threat to the US election; a Microsoft report showed ways it has tried to hack a presidential campaign and more
Microsoft reveals apparent attack ahead of US election SC Media : Iranian influence operations against US elections escalate Juliana Kim / NPR : Microsoft detects fake news sites linked to Iran aimed ...
Microsoft says hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan' DDoS attacks “temporarily impacted availability” of Azure, Teams, Outlook, and more services in early June 2023
Possibly Pro-Russian Ties The Hacker News : Microsoft Blames Massive DDoS Attack for Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive Disruptions Wes Davis / The Verge : Microsoft says June Outlook outages were a DDoS at...
India's education minister demos BharOS, a homegrown mobile OS claimed to ship with no preloaded apps, share no user data, and incapable of running malware
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Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon join the NIST's push to scrap the leap second, which keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's rotation but can cause glitches
so Meta wants to get rid of them Mariella Moon / Engadget : Meta calls for the death of the leap second Ciaran / worthreading : Worth Reading Issue #12 Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : Meta and ot...
Researchers discover macOS malware dubbed “Silver Sparrow” on at least 30K Macs, which includes a native M1 version and leverages the Installer JavaScript API
and this one is dangerous Matthew Humphries / PCMag : Silver Sparrow Malware Discovered on 30K Infected Macs Joe Rice-Jones / KnowTechie : Mysterious malware was found on nearly 30,000 Macs - here's w...
Researcher finds a database from a Chinese company with details on 2.4M influential people around the world, their kids, and how to exert influence over them
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Cambridge Analytica claims to not use Facebook data in voter profiles, perhaps because the models it built from 2014 data do not require more data from Facebook
Last week Reuters reported on the Harris Brand Survey: Casey Johnston / The Outline : Cambridge Analytica's leak shouldn't surprise you, but it should scare you Todd Haselton / CNBC : How to control w...
Study: in the 148 days after Pokémon Go's release, there were 286 more car crashes in one Indiana county than the period before; 134 happened near PokéStops
POKEMON … SSRN : Abstract — Based on detailed police accident reports … Simon Sharwood / The Register : Pokémon GO caused hundreds of deaths, increased crashes Eric Brackett / Digital Trends : Distr...
Apple releases iOS 10.3 with Apple File System, Find My AirPods, CarPlay updates, ability for devs to reply to app reviews, iCloud Analytics opt-in option, more
here's what's new Lookout Blog : Mobile Safari scareware campaign thwarted Zach Epstein / BGR : Hidden changes in iOS 10.3 will give your iPhone a speed boost Neil Hughes / AppleInsider : Apple's CarP...