May 2, 2025

The Download: foreign disinformation intel, and gene-edited pork

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A senior State Department official demanded records of communications with journalists, European officials, and Trump critics A previously unreported document distributed by senior US State Department official Darren Beattie reveals a sweeping effort…

October 2023

Enabling enterprise growth with data intelligence

October 19, 2023
Data — how it’s stored and managed — has become a key competitive differentiator. As global data continues to grow exponentially, organizations face many hurdles between piling up historical data, real-time data streams from IoT sensors, and building data-driven supply chains. Senior vice president of product engineering at Hitachi Vantara, Bharti Patel sees these challenges…

All eyes on Tesla’s margins

October 19, 2023

The company has enjoyed gross margins far in excess of its major automotive rivals in recent years.

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Hackers exploit zero-day to compromise tens of thousands of Cisco devices

October 19, 2023

Hackers have exploited an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Cisco’s networking software to compromise tens of thousands of devices, researchers have warned. Cisco on Monday issued an advisory warning that a critical-rated vulnerability in IOS XE, the software that powers the company’s range of networking devices, was being actively exploited by hackers. Cisco said the bug […]

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Calendar Planning to Create Work-Life Balance

October 19, 2023
From the Monday morning work meeting and that new assignment to a child’s soccer game and a friend’s upcoming birthday party, life is busy. Finding the perfect balance between work…

Photon’s app for pro photographers lets you shoot and save to an external drive

October 19, 2023

Photon, an iOS app for pro photographers, is introducing a new feature that will allow iPhone 15 Pro users to save their photos directly to an external drive, freeing up valuable disk space on their device. The app, which hails from LateNightSoft, the makers of the popular consumer app, Camera+, was launched this July to […]

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Discord is growing its developer monetization efforts

October 19, 2023

In a time when X (formerly Twitter) and Reddit have sequestered API access behind steep paywalls, Discord is taking the opposite approach. A few weeks ago, Discord enabled U.S. developers to sell their apps to Discord users in a centralized hub, and today, that feature expands to include developers in the UK and Europe. Developers […]

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Google Meet now lets you apply a skin-smoothing effect with its new portrait touch-up mode

October 19, 2023

Google Meet finally rolled out a portrait touch-up mode to compete with rivals Zoom and Microsoft Teams. The new capability allows you to apply beautifying features during video calls, including complexion smoothing, under-eye lightening and eye whitening. Google now offers two portrait modes– “Subtle,” which provides light cosmetic adjustments and “Smoothing,” which has a “slightly […]

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Telegram is still leaking user IP addresses to contacts

October 19, 2023

The popular messaging app Telegram can leak your IP address if you simply add a hacker to your contacts and accept a phone call from them. Denis Simonov, a security researcher, who is also known as n0a, recently highlighted the issue and wrote a simple tool to exploit it. TechCrunch verified the researcher’s findings by […]

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