Google on Wednesday patched a major security flaw affecting Gmail and G Suite’s email servers. The bug could send a threatening actor spoof emails that mimic any Gmail or G Suite customer. According to security researcher Allison Husain, who discovered this problem in April and reported it to Google, the …
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Founder of Vista Equity Partners under U.S. tax investigation
Robert Smith, the private equity investor who made headlines with his commitment to pay off last year’s student loans from Morehouse College, is the target of a U.S. probe into his tax affairs. Vista Equity Partners, the group that Mr. Smith founded in 2000, wrote to investors Friday about the …
Read More »Finally a video game worthy of Samurai Jack
Sanurai Jack: Battle through time, out today for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC, and Apple Arcade.Illustration: Games for adults Samurai Jack, The superb animated martial arts drama by Genndy Tartakovsky, debuted on Cartoon Network in December 2001. It lasted until 2004, and returned for a fifth and final season on …
Read More »Elon Musk will have a hard time finding clean nickel
(Bloomberg) – Elon Musk promises a “giant contract” with the miner that can supply nickel for Tesla Inc. batteries at low cost with minimal environmental impact, yet the sector’s sloppy track record could make this deal difficult to gland. Recent accidents such as a diesel spill in Arctic Russia and …
Read More »Apple apparently blocks WordPress app updates to force IAP support
In yet another example of Apple’s increasingly strained relationship with developers, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg tweeted that the free WordPress app on iOS had not seen any updates a while ago because “we were locked out by the App Store. ” According to his tweet, there was no way for …
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