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Because of the richness and variety of content you can find on Substack, many users take to Twitter to repost their favorite Substack finds or even their own work. As of last Thursday, that came to an end. Starting on Apr. 6, anytime a Twitter user wanted to share a Substack link, they were met with an error message saying, “Twitter has unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets in Substack posts,” according to reports....

The Singapore bank noted that digital banking now was the preferred choice for many of its customers, with the global pandemic fuelling the adoption of online services. Digital payment platforms in Singapore, for instance, had seen usage climb by more than 200% last year, UOB said in a statement Wednesday, pointing to e-payment services such as PayNow and QR code. In comparison, physical cash deposits and withdrawals dipped by more than 30%, the bank said....

According to both the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Apostolos Trovias is facing criminal charges “in connection with his scheme to solicit and sell stock trading tips and pre-release earnings and deal information regarding public companies.” The charges were unsealed in Manhattan federal court last week. The 30-year-old, operating under the name “TheBull,” has allegedly operated an insider trading business since at least 2016 through the Dark Web and encrypted messaging services, through to early 2021....

Despite the upbeat results, the report sent Veeva shares down by 10% in late trading. CEO and founder Peter Gassner thanked the team and credited “the trust of our customers” for producing “another great quarter.” Added Gassner, “Rapid innovation is driving expansion in existing markets and significant early traction in newer areas like CDMS and safety as we start to realize the major potential of Veeva Development Cloud.” CFO Brent Bowman remarked that it had been “a strong quarter of financial performance with impressive execution across the business....

Customers will be able to leverage unlimited cloud capacity on demand and access VMware cloud services through vCenter. Project Arctic showcases how VMware is evolving its products to support customers’ multi-cloud strategies. Enterprises are increasingly building a “unified approach to all clouds,” Matt Morgan, VMware’s VP of marketing in the cloud infrastructure business group, said to reporters. “Multi-cloud is all about embracing a single platform and single set of cross-cloud services that can add value across heterogeneous infrastructure,” he said....

The volcano is around 65 kilometres northwest of Tongan capital, Nuku’alofa, with experts saying it was one of the most powerful eruptions since the 1990s. “The sea level gauge at Nuku’alofa, Tonga, recorded a tsunami wave of 1.19 metres before it stopped reporting,” Dr Hannah Power of the University of Newcastle said. “Waves of over a metre were also observed in Vanuatu and Norfolk Island, Australia, and as far afield as Chile....

Russia has been accused of being behind attacks that took down Ukrainian power grids in December 2015, and it’s thought that the Russian military was also behind the widespread and disruptive NotPetya malware attack of June 2017. NotPetya was designed to target organisations in the Ukrainian financial, energy and government sectors, but the impact quickly spread to organisations around the world. SEE: Cybersecurity: Let’s get tactical (ZDNet special report) And as the conflict continues, firms far from that geography have been urged to check their security posture....

Researchers from Avast named MonPass as the compromised CA, which was potentially breached up to eight times as eight different web shells and backdoors were present on the CA’s server. During an analysis conducted between March and April, Avast found indicators of compromise due to the web shells and backdoors and a version of the MonPass client, available from February 8, 2021, until March 3 2021, for download, was malicious....

Neuromorphic computing aims to use computer science to develop AI hardware that is more flexible and can emulate the functions of the human brain, including contextual interpretation, sensory applications, and autonomous adaptation. See: What is neuromorphic computing? Everything you need to know about how it is changing the future of computing “We don’t really know how brains take signals from our body sensors and processes it, and make sense of the world around it....

Also: The best task management software Curious? Let’s step back a bit first and talk about just what project management is. And now, the next question. Although project management is very well suited for those efforts made by bigger companies working on massive projects, it can also apply to all sorts of things. You can: Track your kid’s school assignments and studies.Track your home improvement efforts.Track your club’s event planning....

The back story is that, while Cloudera has made firm progress, not only in reaffirming commitment of over 90% of the installed base, and inching toward profitability after early post-Hortonworks merger stumbles, Wall Street is not quite so patient. Following its blockbuster IPO, Wall Street is looking for the next Snowflake and is hungrily eyeing Databricks, which has amassed over $1 billion in venture capital. Under private equity, Cloudera is hoping for a path that will look a lot like Informatica....

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects a 10% decline in U.S. programmer employment between 2020 and 2030, due to global competition. However, the median annual programmer salary is more than double the median annual wage for all occupations. Despite the competitive landscape, high-quality opportunities exist for the right programmers. Here, we examine what these professionals do, what they make, and what they need to qualify for employment. What’s life like as a programmer?...

The app will also put a placeholder app icon on the iPhone’s home screen for all free apps that are found on the Android device, allowing the user to download the iOS version of the app with just a tap on the app’s icon without opening the App Store at all. It’s a simple, convenient, and streamlined process. For WhatsApp users, however, a sticking point has been the lack of a method to transfer conversation history, photos, videos, and audio clips from an Android device to an iPhone....

Red Hat surveyed 1,703 IT leaders to in an effort to discover where organizations are on their digital transformation journeys, funding priorities and the challenges faced. It found that investment in IT security was “by far” the most common overall funding priority during the next 12 months, with 44% of respondents placing it in their top three priorities alongside cloud infrastructure (36%) and IT/cloud management (35%). Security was cited as a priority across a variety of technology categories, including cloud infrastructure (42%), big data and analytics (45%), and automation (35%)....

I’ve written a number of articles on VPNs, as well as ZDNET’s list of the best VPN services of 2022, and so I get lots of interesting questions. Over time, I’ll try to answer most of them. This week, we’re looking at why a proxy server can’t protect you like a VPN can. To understand that, you need to understand the difference between a proxy server and a VPN. Let’s start with proxy servers....

Despite this, the iPad Mini 6 is not only the most exciting product Apple has launched this year, but it is one of the most exciting new products that Apple has released in years, period. It belongs in a class of other groundbreaking Apple products, such as the current-generation M1 iPad Pro and the Apple Silicon M1 chip itself that powers its new Macbook and Mac Mini line. Why is it the most exciting new product in years?...

iPads, MacBooks, and iPhones suddenly stop charging, and the owners try different chargers and cables with no success. They start pointing fingers at the battery and think it’s time for a replacement (battery or device). Also: How to build a winter emergency kit (and why you should) And then, later in the day, the device suddenly starts charging again, and everything seems fine. It’s like the problem just fixed itself....

All of these were successful releases, but we’ve also had some real clunkers as well. Some of these were early versions of technologies that were to be exploited in more refined iterations, later on, not yet ready for prime time. But some of these were just plain… bad. We’ve presented these OS disasters chronologically – not in the order of how much they suck. Did we miss anything? And if we were to sort these by reputation – from bad to worst – what would the correct sort order be?...

Also: Best Windows 10 laptop in 2021 With Windows 11, Microsoft is shifting servicing gears yet again. But this time, in a way that IT will likely find much more palatable. Microsoft is moving to a single annual update per year for Windows 11. The Home and Pro editions will get 24 months of support. Enterprise and Education will get 36 months of support. Microsoft will continue to make available regular cumulative updates with patches and fixes throughout the year for all Windows 11 users....

No. It’s a bad time to buy a Windows PC. The utter confusion coming from the Microsoft camp as to what the final system requirements will be means that it’s hard to plan a safe upgrade path. After all, you could go out today and drop almost $5,000 for a Surface Studio 2 PC – a Microsoft Surface Studio 2 – and find yourself unable to upgrade to Windows 11 in a few months....