2020-11-26 07:20:04 www.zdnet.com With the introduction of the Raspberry Pi 4 series, with more than 1GB of memory, it has become much more practical to install and run Linux distributions other than the standard Raspberry Pi OS (formerly known…
2020-11-26 07:39:50 www.zdnet.com Although the internet is available in almost every country around the globe subscription costs, internet speeds, and average salaries wildly differ. And some countries are getting a much better deal than others. It might be a…
2020-11-26 04:31:21 www.zdnet.com UK-based cyber-security vendor Sophos is currently notifying customers via email about a security breach the company suffered earlier this week. "On November 24, 2020, Sophos was advised of an access permission issue in a tool used…
2020-11-25 17:00:03 www.zdnet.com Office Depot and OfficeMax's Black Friday 2020 ad has leaked a few days after its rival Staples dropped its deals ad, but it's a lot slimmer than in year's past. A mere four pages long, the…
2020-11-25 23:01:02 www.zdnet.com The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has thrown out a request from Chinese telco equipment maker ZTE to reconsider its status as a national security threat. In June, the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security…
2020-11-25 23:16:29 www.zdnet.com Image: Joshua Hoehne Facebook has been fined 6.7 billion won, approximately $6 million, in South Korea for sharing user data without their consent. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said the US company shared data of…
2020-11-25 18:46:00 www.zdnet.com Black Friday 2020 is here, and with it, you can expect a range of tablet deals to appear. From Samsung Galaxy tablets to Apple iPads, over the course of the shopping event -- no longer just…
2020-11-25 19:02:05 www.zdnet.com Image: Asha Barbaschow/ZDNet The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) started proceedings in the Federal Court on Thursday against Telstra, over the telco improperly signing up 108 Indigenous Australians to postpaid mobile contracts. The telco had…
2020-11-25 17:00:04 www.zdnet.com Like its rival Newegg, TigerDirect has been selling PCs and PC parts online for a long, long time. While that history can provide confidence in ordering any of the following Black Friday deals from the retailer,…
2020-11-25 15:46:28 www.zdnet.com Image: Microsoft A French security researcher has accidentally discovered a zero-day vulnerability that impacts the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems while working on an update to a Windows security tool.The vulnerability resides…
2020-11-25 13:47:00 www.zdnet.com This year's hottest Black Friday trend this year may be "pre-Black Friday," with retailers looking to jumpstart holiday shopping with early deals that will reward shoppers who think waiting until the end of November to start…
2020-11-24 16:48:00 www.zdnet.com Dell Technologies third quarter results crushed estimates as it rode a PC demand surge amid remote work and learning.The company reported earnings of $881 million, or $1.08 a share, in the third quarter on revenue of…
2020-11-24 08:24:00 www.zdnet.com Need to pick up a charging accessory for your smartphone or tablet? Premium accessory maker Aukey has some great deals over the Black Friday period. Everything ranging from power banks to travel adapters, and all available…
2020-11-24 08:47:00 www.zdnet.com After watching the video and reading the article covering my home office, a representative from Vari reached out to see if I wanted to test one of its Electric Standing Desk options. My old Costco desk…
2020-11-24 10:00:04 www.zdnet.com Stantinko, one of the oldest malware botnets still operating today, has rolled out updates to its class of Linux malware, upgrading its trojan to pose as the legitimate Apache web server process (httpd) in order to…
2020-11-24 09:08:00 www.zdnet.com I'm a huge fan of Zendure power banks and chargers. Most of my travel and off-grid kit has one or more Zendure products because they do what they say they'll do, no question. Problem is, Zendure…
2020-11-24 05:27:00 www.zdnet.com A hacker has leaked this month the data of more than 4.2 million users registered on Peatix, an event organizing platform, currently ranked among the Alexa Top 3,500 most popular sites on the internet. The site's user…
2020-11-24 04:07:49 www.zdnet.com Black Friday 2020 is here, and with it, you can expect a range of tablet deals to appear. From Samsung Galaxy tablets to Apple iPads, over the course of the shopping event -- no longer just…
2020-11-23 21:30:51 www.zdnet.com Image: Mika Baumeister Google has delayed the implementation of a new policy that would have seen it charge higher commission fees to South Korean developers for sales made through the Play Store. With the new policy, the…
2020-11-23 18:07:00 www.zdnet.com The trend of retailers moving from Black Friday as a single day of shopping to a month-long state of mind continues as BJ's Wholesale Club announces its deals, which will begin on Nov. 5 and go…
2020-11-23 15:33:00 www.zdnet.com Like its rival Newegg, TigerDirect has been selling PCs and PC parts online for a long, long time. While that history can provide confidence in ordering any of the following Black Friday deals from the retailer,…
2020-11-23 12:37:13 www.zdnet.com Image: Tesla Motors A Belgian security researcher has discovered a method to overwrite and hijack the firmware of Tesla Model X key fobs, allowing him to steal any car that isn't running on the latest software…
2020-11-23 10:10:12 www.zdnet.com Image: ZDNet, WordPress A new cybercrime gang has been seen taking over vulnerable WordPress sites to install hidden e-commerce stores with the purpose of hijacking the original site's search engine ranking and reputation and promote online…
2020-11-23 07:40:03 www.zdnet.com Apple's MacBook Air has always been my preferred technological travelling companion (back in the days when we actually travelled) thanks to its lightweight design and solid battery life. The MacBook Air was first launched in 2008,…
2020-11-23 08:00:03 www.zdnet.com Ever since IBM unveiled Cloud Pak for Data as a cloud-native integrated set of analytics and AI platform, we've been wondering when IBM will take the next step and announce a full-blown managed cloud service. It's…
2020-11-22 07:35:51 www.zdnet.com The latest version of the Google Chrome browser, v87, released earlier this month, contains a new redesigned PDF reader.New features that come with the redesigned PDF reader include support for page thumbnail previews, support for document outlines…
2020-11-21 15:25:18 www.zdnet.com Image: Alessio Festa European football club Manchester United disclosed on late Friday a cyber-security incident that impacted its internal systems. The football club said it's still investigating the incident and couldn't say if the breach allowed…
2020-11-21 03:00:03 www.zdnet.com Drawing little attention to themselves, multiple threat actors have spent the past two-three years mass-scanning the internet for ENV files that have been accidentally uploaded and left exposed on web servers. ENV files, or environment files, are a…
2020-11-20 14:16:00 www.zdnet.com Dell launched its holiday shopping plans for Black Friday and Cyber Monday on Oct. 15, two weeks before Halloween and just after the dust settled on Amazon's annual Prime Day extravaganza. While its first round of…
2020-11-20 14:20:00 www.zdnet.com Office Depot and OfficeMax's Black Friday 2020 ad has leaked a few days after its rival Staples dropped its deals ad, but it's a lot slimmer than in year's past. A mere four pages long, the…
2020-11-20 13:11:50 www.zdnet.com Over the Black Friday 2020 shopping event, vendors worldwide will begin launching time-sensitive sales for a range of laptops. Whether you're in the market for a hefty workhorse able to manage power-hungry programs, you're an illustrator…
2020-11-20 11:26:00 www.zdnet.com With so much riding on the performance and accuracy of artificial intelligence algorithms -- from medical diagnoses to legal advice to financial planning -- there have been calls for the "professionalization" of AI developers, through mechanisms…
2020-11-20 06:47:54 www.zdnet.com Logitech Ergo K860 Keyboard. Image: Logitech SA Finally (hooray!), Logitech has a "Natural" ergonomic keyboard widely available again. I have been waiting literally several years for this, and I have worn out several of the previous…