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Amazon rips Microsoft for ‘spotty operational performance during the COVID-19 crisis’

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services has long been the cloud infrastructure market leader, though Microsoft Azure has gained momentum in recent years. Cloud services have helped fuel revenue for tech giants over the past few months as more people and businesses rely on the internet amid the pandemic. GeekWire File Photo).

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LinkedIn Shuts Down Four XSS Flaws, Is wireless the Trojan horse in your network security? and more

CTOvision

IE zero-day vulnerability exploited more widely than previously thought - “A recently announced and yet-to-be-patched vulnerability that affects all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) has been exploited in targeted attacks against organizations in Taiwan since the beginning of July, according to security researchers.”

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How the pandemic is bringing Elon Musk’s dream to connect everyone on Earth closer to reality

Vox

In vast swaths of the United States and the world, there are millions of people who don’t have reliable internet access. In early March, just days before cities across the US shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Elon Musk shared the latest details about his plan to build a satellite broadband service called Starlink.

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Deception and Forensics for the Next Generation – Part 7: Device Forensics in a Deception Environment

SecureWorld News

It is a challenge because the deception net is, or should be, configured to prevent access to the outside—including the internet, as well as local networks—by any code running inside the device. We need a better solution for this problem and, fortunately, we have one: device memory forensics is built into the deception net.

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Why Epic is burning its own cash to cook Apple

The Verge

Epic Games Store runs on Amazon Web Services. That’s in line with Minitel , the French pre-internet, which also had a 30 / 70 split for third-party content, says Bill Maurer, a professor of anthropology at the University of California Irvine who specializes in payment processors. “At So does Fortnite itself.

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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

GeekWire

AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 ” Sharma joined Madrona last year from Amazon Web Services. The company posted revenue of $4.2 billion in 2019.

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Amazon’s strategy to squeeze marketplace sellers and maximize its own profits is evolving

Vox

That revenue translates to a lot of profit — more than even Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing platform typically believed to be the company’s most profitable arm. AWS netted $13.5 ILSR estimates seller fees netted $24 billion. billion in 2020, according to Amazon’s financial data.

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