The Nevada Capitol AdobeStock The State of Nevada is experiencing significant internet outages Friday morning, impacting most state websites and online services for residents. The Department of Administration has identified a physical failure with a fiber connection and a repair is currently in progress. There is not yet an estimated……

Elon MuskPhoto: Michael Gonzalez (Getty Images) Elon Musk made headlines this week—normally music to the attention-fed Tesla non-founder’s ears/monkey-killing brain chip. But the tone of these latest news reports have been negative even by Musk’s very low standards, presenting attacks from multiple angles: His ongoing, disastrous efforts to acquire/not-acquire Twitter;……

GATINEAU, QC, Oct. 14, 2022 /CNW/ – Menstrual products are a basic need and are essential to upholding Canadians’ sexual and reproductive health and rights, as well as to ensuring women’s participation in school, work and society. Yet, one in three Canadians who need pads, tampons or other menstrual products……

After anti-Xi-Jinping protests erupted in China’s capital, the country censored the word ‘Beijing’ on social media. The protest comes just ahead of the 20th Party Congress, scheduled for October 16. Beijing authorities removed rare protest banners from an overpass in city (Photo: Twitter) By India Today Web Desk: The rare……

Despite many claims stating otherwise, you cannot prevent Facebook from using your data or photos by posting a message on Facebook. For at least a decade, variations of a chain message that claims to protect the data of the poster have spread around Facebook. In each version of the message,……

News Microsoft Ignite: Security and Office 365 Products and Services Hitting ‘General Availability’ By Kurt Mackie October 12, 2022 Microsoft kicked off this year’s Ignite event with a bevy of  announced products hitting the “general availability” (GA) commercial-release stage. The announcements were all over the map, without real standouts. The……

Crypto Influencer Eric Wall Talks Censorship Resistance At Devcon When investor and social media star Eric Wall took the main stage at Ethereum’s marquee conference in Bogota, Colombia Thursday afternoon, he came with a warning. When he stepped off a half hour later, Skylar Weaver, the conference’s organizer, told the……

The Kali Linux distribution enables penetration testers to explore how potential attackers may enter a system. The suite features hundreds of tools to effectively test all aspects of an IT system, from applications to networks. Author and pen tester Vijay Kumar Velu wrote Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing……

Murong Xuecun was one of the brightest stars of China’s literary scene, his novels offering searing critiques of contemporary social issues that few other writers dared to imitate. But after a decade of diminishing freedom of speech under President Xi Jinping, he could not publish in his own country and……

You’d think, given the various questions and controversies around Meta’s metaverse avatars, that it’d probably want to reduce the focus on them for the time being, just till things start to take more shape. But that’s evidently not the approach that Meta’s taking, as it’s rolled out a new set……