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I love a scheduled social media post right in the middle of a major PC outage. IT admins certainly aren’t enjoying the CrowdStrike 2024 PC era.

Not now, Intel.

Ecommerce fraud is rising — here’s how to stop it. Catch up with this on-demand VB Spotlight for insight into the most common types of fraud. Participants will come away with a plan for a strategic and technological framework that protects against these threats without disrupting users. Watch...

The mindset, technology and tools that are stopping ecommerce in its tracks

It’s against this backdrop that Danish startup Toddle has thrown its hat into the visual development ring: It has launched a no-code platform designed as a full-featured alternative to JavaScript frameworks, replete with real-time collaboration, version control and hosting. Ultimately, the company says it wants to “change how we...

Toddle wants to ‘change how we build software’ with a collaborative visual web app builder

Industries ranging from healthcare to banking, air travel, and others are struggling with a global IT outage that hit Microsoft Windows PCs and servers connected to the CrowdStrike security platform early Friday morning. It could take a while to fully resolve these Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) errors, with the standard fix requiring a trip into Safe Mode, but Microsoft is now advising that rebooting systems affected by the CrowdStrike glitch up to 15 times could get them back up and running.

CrowdStrike and Microsoft: all the latest news on the global IT outage

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After people in NYC reported a large boom at around 11:17AM that some attributed to military weapons tests, NASA Meteor Watch reports it was actually a meteor. With more reports collected from eyewitnesses, its latest update says the space rock's path took it west over New Jersey at 38,000 miles per hour.

Tuesday morning boom over New York may have been a "daylight fireball" meteor

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

GHENT, Belgium—Lighthouse announced the release of Channel Manager, an AI-powered solution that impacts pricing, promotion, and distribution for independent hotels. Building on the recent acquisition and integration of Stardekk into the Lighthouse platform, this announcement updates channel management for independent hotels by addressing the long-standing limitations of static pricing, promotion, and distribution technologies.

Lighthouse Launches Channel Manager, an AI Solution for Independent Hotels

Loop Media, Inc., a leading multichannel streaming CTV platform that provides curated music videos, sports highlights, news, and premium entertainment channels is pleased to announce that it is partnering with DoubleVerify, Inc. to utilize the DV Marketplace Suite Quality Insights’ pre-bid fraud and invalid traffic protection solution, which helps Loop avoid serving advertisements to sites identified by the Internet Advertising Bureau (“IAB”) as being invalid or fraudulent, as well as utilizing DV’s measurement and reporting tools.

Loop Media Announces Viewability Measurement and Fraud Protection Partnership with DoubleVerify

Frontier says that if your flight was impacted, you can request a refund. The Federal Aviation Administration had to ground Frontier flights, but that ground stop was lifted after 10PM ET. Microsoft services had been subject to a few problems Thursday evening, that got even worse on Friday after a...

A Microsoft outage affected Frontier’s systems.

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History has been made by Sheila Jackson and Natasha McCrea. They are reportedly the first Black women entrepreneurs to own a whiskey brand in the state of California. The founders’ vision stemmed from a 2020 conversation held over dinner when they bonded through a shared interest in whiskey. It was then that they came to… Continue reading Meet The First Black Women Entrepreneurs To Own A Whiskey Brand In California

Meet The First Black Women Entrepreneurs To Own A Whiskey Brand In California

Microsoft is integrating Nvidia’s GeForce Now service into its store pages for Xbox games. The integration will allow you to pick between either Xbox Cloud Gaming or Nvidia’s GeForce Now service when you view a game listing on the web. Currently, Microsoft only lists its own Xbox Cloud...

Microsoft integrates Nvidia’s GeForce Now into its Xbox game pages

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How long do you sleep at night? Do you have a fixed sleeping pattern? Scientists recommend sleeping for at least seven hours per day. But some zodiac signs struggle to catch sleep. Sleep deprivation reduces someone’ concentration, cognitive ability, and performance. However, taking a balanced diet and working out can improve sleep. Still, sleeping well helps in weight management as it reduces appetite. Read on to learn about the best-sleeping zodiac signs.

5 Zodiac Signs Who Get the Best Sleep

Look, in the grand scheme of the global outage that’s wreaking havoc across airlines, banks, supermarkets, TV stations, and countless businesses, being unable to order a Trenta iced coffee from Starbucks with my smartphone is a minor inconvenience. But you can add the company’s mobile ordering system to the list of casualties from this CrowdStrike BSOD situation.

Starbucks mobile ordering falls victim to the CrowdStrike BSOD outage

The Federal Trade Commission has blasted Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass price increases in a filing to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Microsoft revealed last week that it’s increasing PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate prices and planning to launch a new Game Pass Standard tier soon without day one access to first-party Xbox games.

FTC blasts Microsoft’s new ‘degraded’ Xbox Game Pass Standard tier and price increases

Amid an AI-driven digital transformation, the construction of data centers is reaching unprecedented heights. To keep up with the surging demand for computing power, drones are now playing a crucial role in monitoring these developments, thanks to a partnership between DroneDeploy and GLOBHE. DroneDeploy, which specializes in aerial and ground...

On-demand drone pilots transforming data center monitoring in Europe

Four months after releasing its first sub-$400 smartphone, Nothing is teasing a new addition to its A-series lineup. On Monday the company posted just a single plus sign on X, and today added an event page to its website revealing a July 31st at 5AM ET announcement for the new Phone 2A Plus. Expect more teases from Nothing over the next two weeks.

Nothing teases a bigger version of its budget Phone 2A.

Boost Mobile, the historically MVNO wireless carrier acquired by Disk Network (which rejoined EchoStar), has relaunched as an umbrella company that now includes Boost Infinite and combines all its pre- and post-paid services. Along with the rebranding, Boost Mobile is offering new deals, including an affordable $25 per month option with 5G speeds.

Boost Mobile is getting a $25 monthly unlimited plan

Hisense’s CanvasTV, a matte screen television designed to blend into your home decor as a piece of artwork when you’re not watching TV, is now available in a 65-inch model for $1,299.99. A smaller 55-inch version, expected to sell for $999, is still en route for later this summer.

Hisense’s new TV is just like Samsung’s Frame but costs a lot less

Interra Systems, the leading provider of end-to-end quality assurance solutions to the digital media industry, will showcase its latest innovations in content-aware QC, monitoring, captioning, and analysis at IBC2024, Sept. 13-16 in Amsterdam. Attendees can visit Interra Systems in Hall 7, Stand C11, to explore the newest features of the company’s BATON and BATON Captions solutions, alongside its award-winning ORION content monitoring solution, designed for comprehensive monitoring of linear/IP and live/VOD streaming content. The company’s VEGA media analyzer, offering detailed analysis and compliance validation of compressed video, and the company’s new Relay Workflow management tool will also be on display.

Interra Systems to Present Company’s Cutting-Edge Media QC, Monitoring, and Analysis Solutions at IBC2024

IT admins around the world are scrambling to fix a major issue with Windows computers today after a faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike knocked thousands of PCs and servers offline with a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error. While CrowdStrike has fixed the update that originally caused the problems, many systems are still offline, with banks, airlines, supermarkets, and TV broadcasters struggling to cope without their machines.

Here’s how IT admins are fixing the Windows Blue Screen of Death chaos

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The biggest names in AI have teamed up to promote AI security

Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, and other big names in AI are coming together to form the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI), according to an...

The biggest names in AI have teamed up to promote AI security

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