Brussels introduces declaration to establish digital rights
The European Commission has announced a declaration to protect digital human rights. With the 'Declaration on European Digital Rights and Principles', the Commission hopes to make any future online activity fairer and safer.
The European Commission (EC) wrote the Declaration on European Digital ... Read more
WordPress 5.9 available: themes customizable with no-code interface
WordPress 5.9 is available. The update introduces the Site Editor, a no-code replacement for Customizer.
The road to 5.9 has been long and hard. The release was delayed for months. Addison Stavlo, one of the devs, described the development process as a "red flag" and "dangerously rushed". Yet, t... Read more
Europe’s Wi-Fi satellite program will exclude non-EU countries
The EC's lead Commissioner says full proposal will include strict criteria for those wishing to take part.
Thierry Breton, the EC's Internal Market Commissioner, said this week that the bloc will likely exclude non-EU countries from a new communications satellite program. The reason for the excl... Read more
Git 2.35 is available: mostly bug fixes, slight improvements
The release of Git 2.35 introduces a new parameter and various bug fixes.
Git 2.35 is a relatively minor update totalling 494 non-merge commits. The version fixes various bugs, including fetch misses, matching issues in sparse-checkout and a number of grep issues. Git-stash, a new parameter, all... Read more
Microsoft reports it has more than 270M monthly active users on Teams
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that the company now has more than 270 million monthly active Teams users as of 2022 Q2. That number has risen from 250 million monthly active users in July 2021.
During the Q2 2022 earnings call, Officials also reported that it now has more than 1.4 billion monthl... Read more
Sophos introduces ZTNA for secure user and device connections
Sophos is introducing a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) portfolio. Zero trust principles and far-reaching integration with Sophos Intercept X's endpoint security are key to the release.
With the arrival of Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Sophos wants to offer a transparent and scalable securi... Read more
Critical Linux vulnerability affects all major distributions
Security researchers have found vulnerabilities in Linux PolicyKit (also known as Polkit). The vulnerabilities allow hackers to gain complete access to affected machines and upload malicious code. The issue has since been patched.
According to Qualys researchers, the so-called PwnKit exploit man... Read more
Canonical adds MLFlow integration to latest Charmed Kubeflow release
The new release enhances how enterprises collaborate on AI and machine learning innovation throughout the lifecycle of the project.
This week the Canonical, the U.K.-based publisher of Ubuntu, announced the release of Charmed Kubeflow 1.4. The new release enables data science teams to securely ... Read more
Microsoft exceeds financial expectations, cloud revenue drives numbers
Microsoft's fourth-quarter earnings were higher than expected in 2021. Intelligent Cloud business revenue -- which includes Azure -- shot up. Yet, the stock market reacted with disappointment.
During the presentation of the figures, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella indicates that the org is doing wel... Read more
Google launches Topics API, new alternative to cookies and FLoC
Google hopes to launch a test phase of the Google Topics API in April. The Topics API maps users' internet behaviour to push personalized ads. Similar to cookies, but -- according to Google -- compliant with privacy laws worldwide.
Google is co-dependent on personalized ads. The organization use... Read more