A popular family tracking app was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks after the developer left a server exposed without a password.
The app, Family Locator, built by Australia-based software house React Apps, allows...
Nvidia announced an expanded array of RTX server solutions designed to leverage the power of ray-tracing at GTC 2019. The effort will help Nvidia take on Google's Stadia in game streaming with GeForce Now, and the company's investments in GPU tech...
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Overnight, the Apple Music service has received a server-side upgrade which results in a redesigned Browse tab in the Music app for iPhone and iPad. The new look seems to be rolling out slowly, as some readers are reporting they are still seeing the...
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HMD, the Finnish company making Nokia-branded devices, is now being investigated by the country’s data protection watchdog amid reports that some of its phones sent data to servers in China. The investigation comes after NRK, a Norwegian...
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A vulnerability in Valve‘s Steam platform made it possible for malicious actors to take over user accounts, pilfer their items, and even infect their systems with additional malware. The security kink resided in Steam‘s server browser...
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Facebook on Thursday admitted that millions of passwords were stored in plain text on its internal servers, a security slip that left them readable by the social networking giant's employees.
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Using radial velocity method and direct imaging, astronomers have found a compact companion of a nearby star known as HD 118475. The finding is detailed in a paper published March 11 on the arXiv pre-print server, in which the authors reveal...
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Opera is one of the first browsers that brought a free VPN service to the desktop, and now the company is bringing it to Android as well.
Opera for Android 51 thus allows users to browse the web securely by easily connecting to a VPN server, all...
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Claims ForsaOS can engorge server memory by up to 24x Formulus Black has proposed a way to make x86 servers run faster, using a data-reduction method.…
Training wheels for… wheels GTC This week at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Silicon Valley, the chip slinger claimed its Drive Constellation – a server and software combo designed to give self-driving cars a virtual world where...
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Google isn’t launching a gaming console. The company is launching a service instead, Stadia. You’ll be able to run a game on a server and stream the video feed to your device. You won’t need to buy new hardware to access Stadia, but Stadia...
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Myspace has apologized for losing more than a decade of data in a possible server migration error. A message on the social network warns folks that any photos, videos, and audio files uploaded […]
The post Myspace ‘Sorry’ For...
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Z refresh cycles slows, bruises Big Blue's server revenue IBM's worldwide server sales took a turn for the worse in Q4, declining by almost a third as the dust settled on the Z mainframe refresh rush.…
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Myspace has apparently lost most or all of the music files uploaded by its users before 2015, and it told users that the data was corrupted beyond repair during a server migration. Myspace...
It was a "server configuration change." The word "cats" is in there somewhere.
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Despite clear evidence that Microsoft is de-emphasising Cortana in Windows 10, the team continues to work on adding new features and functionality to the app. The latest is a server-side update to the user interface of the app, which can be seen in...
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Valve is opening up its latency-reducing, DoS-protecting network relay infrastructure to every developer using its Steamworks platform.
A few years ago, large-scale denial-of-service attacks against game servers were...
Facebook just can't catch a break. The target of myriad investigations, scandals and user ire that's led to a steady migration away from the main app, the biggest social network in the world confirmed Thursday that the widespread outage that...
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After a 14-hour period of downtime, Facebook announced today that ‘a server configuration change’ was the root cause of the error.On Twitter, Facebook noted, “Yesterday, as a result of a server configuration change, many people had...
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