Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | fake pictures Alphabet, Google’s parent company, beat expectations for its second-quarter earnings on Thursday, marking its first decline in revenue in the company’s history. The company’s shares barely …
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Updated July 30. Article originally published on July 29. As tech geekerati prepare for the iPhone 12 launch later this year, Apple continues to leverage the supply chain to both enhance the iOS smartphone and lower Apple’s business costs. Once again, the battlefield is the screen, and once again Apple …
Read More »Woman who smashed face masks at Target is institutionalized, then husband files for divorce
Melissa Rein Lively, who went viral in early July for destroying a face mask display at an Arizona Target, says she is now undergoing treatment for mental illness. What is a brief history here? Lively, the CEO and founder of an Arizona-based public relations firm, visited a Scottsdale Target on …
Read More »Facebook Reports Second Quarter User Growth, Sales Exceeding Expectations
Facebook (FB) reported second-quarter results that easily beat estimates, further increasing its user base and ad business even during the pandemic and as the social media giant came under increased scrutiny for its policies on surveillance of harmful content on their platforms. Facebook shares rose 5% in recent trades to …
Read More »Big BootHole flaw in GRUB2 boot loader leaves millions of Windows and Linux systems at risk for hackers
A serious vulnerability named BootHole has been discovered in the bootloader GRUB2. Millions of systems are at risk of being exposed to hackers, mainly those running Linux, but Windows is also affected. Discovered by security researchers at Eclypsium, the BootHole vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2020-10713 (“GRUB2: The designed grub.cfg file …
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