Microsoft Cheers, ACLU Jeers Washington State Law Restricting Use of Facial Recognition Softwareupstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:Microsoft cheers, ACLU jeers law restricting use of facial-recognition technology:
Millions of Guests Impacted in Marriott Data Breach, Againupstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Millions of Guests Impacted in Marriott Data Breach, Again:
wirelessduck writes:https://www.barrons.com/articles/xerox-withdraws-hostile-bid-for-hp-citing-impact-of-coronavirus-51585688762Xerox Holdings is withdrawing its hostile bid for HP Inc., the latest example of Covid-19's wide-ranging impact on markets.Xerox (ticker: XRX) said Thursday afternoon that it will pull both its tender offer for HP (HPQ) shares and its proposed slate of directors for the HP board."The current global health crisis and resulting macroeconomic and market turmoil caused by Covid-19 have created an environment that is not conducive to Xerox continuing to pursue an acquisition of HP Inc.," Xerox said in a statement. "Accordingly, we are withdrawing our tender offer to acquire HP and will no longer seek to nominate our slate of highly qualified candidates to HP's Board of Directors."Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
The Mighty Buzzard writes:The 4/1 joke this year is on me. Working from home apparently doesn't get you out of working on your home, or in this case a church destined to shortly be my home. Which is what kept me from having time to annoy you lot with a terrible/goofy/whatever theme or some other silliness this year. Enjoy your lazy Wednesday and feel free to have a chuckle at my expense.Side note: there are only sixty-one four-digit uids left at the time of this writing (the morning of 3/31) . Any of you long time ACs who think you might want to register before we hit five digits need to do it soon.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
evilcam writes:Forbes are reporting on a recent Microsoft Blog post, claiming a 775% increase in Cloud Services uptake from regions that are enforcing social distancing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.In addition, there's been a 3x surge in Remote Desktop use and the Number of Teams users has more than doubled to 44 Million since November 2019.How has your use of on-line meetings changed since the pandemic hit?takyon: Apparently Microsoft's Claim of 775 Percent Surge in Cloud Services Wasn't Really Accurate
This story is a merge of 30 story submissions. Given that it was well over 17,000 words of original source material (excluding HTML markup!), a great deal of pruning was performed to get it to a manageable size. I strongly encourage folks to read the linked articles for more information.For latest statistics, and finer granularity, see https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/.As of 20200330_151936 UTC, it reported these world-wide totals:
canopic jug writes:WordPress, the most common content management system (CMS) on the Web, has about 60% market share. It is even found on nearly a third of all web sites, not just those running a CMS. Given this enormous presence,WordPress has changed the Web quite a bit through its existence. Here are seventeen trivia about WordPress.
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:'A game changer': FDA authorizes Abbott Labs' portable, 5-minute coronavirus test the size of a toaster:
[20200330_130145 UTC: It appears the author's native language is not English; any mistakes seen here were in the original.--martyb]fliptop writes:Will Low-Code and No-Code merge into a single market segment for both enterprise-class and user-friendly developers?