Tag: software

January 9, 2019

IT’S MICROSOFT’S MONTHLY PATCHING TIME, with Redmond pasting over some 51 security holes across Windows 10, 7, and 8.1, along with other nasties in its suite of software. One major security bork in the Windows Jet Database Engine, which can […]

January 7, 2019

unCAPTCHA, an artificial intelligence-based automated system designed at the University of Maryland, has been updated to break Google’s latest audio-based reCAPTCHA challenges with an accuracy rate of 90 percent. Google has been working on refining and strengthening reCAPTCHA for years, […]

January 4, 2019

THE MOZILLA FOUNDATION is planning a serious upgrade to its open source desktop email client, Thunderbird. Thunderbird has been around for a long time now and is starting to feel extremely clunky and dated, plus it doesn’t have support for […]

January 4, 2019

Adobe has released a security update which resolves two critical vulnerabilities uncovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader software. The software giant said the bugs are deemed critical, as they can lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution in the […]

January 3, 2019

GOOGLE CHROME is bringing its long-requested Dark Theme to Windows 10, after debuting it on macOS late last year. Given that Windows 10 has been capable of supporting Dark Modes for quite a while now, the lack of progress on […]

December 31, 2018

The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and other titles belonging to Tribune Publishing suffered distribution delays on Saturday after the company detected the malware a day earlier. Papers that share the same production platform in LA, including the […]

December 31, 2018

According to a marketing agency with sources within LCD manufacturing companies, nine players will be pushing the 8K panel market next year, across seven different sizes. Samsung will have the largest range, with 65”, 75”, 82” and 98” panels. Next […]

December 26, 2018

We recently experienced an installation of Windows 10 with system files that were corrupt to the point that certain sections of the Settings app would automatically close when being opened, among other bugs around the platform. After attempting typical repair […]

December 21, 2018

In a way, 2018 has been like the TV series of Ninja Warrior for emerging technologies with AI, automation, data and blockchain the key competitors trying to surmount the many obstacles and challenges in their way. And, like the programme, […]

December 21, 2018

While moving to the cloud is a large part of many businesses’ digital transformation efforts, some companies have yet to do so. Security concerns such as data breaches and data loss are the main reasons these businesses have held off […]