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Microsoft Inks 10-Year Deal With Top Indian Telecom Network Reliance Jio To Court ‘Millions’ of Small and Medium Businesses

Microsoft on Monday announced a long-term partnership with India’s top telecom network Reliance Jio to reach “millions” of small and medium businesses clients in the key overseas market. From a report: The 10-year alliance between the two will see them launch new cloud data-centers in India to ensure “more of Jio’s customers can access the tools and platforms they need to…

Does Quantum Cryptography Need a Reboot?

“Despite decades of research, there’s no viable roadmap for how to scale quantum cryptography to secure real-world data and communications for the masses,” according to IEEE Spectrum. Wave723 shares their report: A handful of companies now operate or pay for access to networks secured using quantum cryptography in the United States, China, Austria, and Japan. According to a recent industry report,…

Grand Theft Auto Maker Has Paid No UK Corporation Tax in 10 Years

Rockstar North, the Edinburgh-based developer of Grand Theft Auto, has paid no corporation tax over the past 10 years, despite making billions in revenue for its parent company Take-Two Interactive, while claiming more than $52m in tax relief. From a report: A report from the investigative thinktank TaxWatch UK estimates Rockstar Games’ operating profit at $5bn between 2013 and 2019, during…

‘5 Programming Languages That Are Probably Doomed’

An anonymous reader shares a report: Not all programming languages endure forever. In fact, even the most popular ones inevitably crumble away, as new generations of developers embrace other languages and frameworks they find easier to work with. In order to determine which programming languages are likely doomed in the medium- to long-term, we looked at the popularity rankings by TIOBE…

Delta Aquariid meteors peak around now

This meteor shower doesn’t have a definite peak, but is spread out over many weeks. With little to no moonlight before dawn now, late July and early August are a good time to watch. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/delta-aquarid-meteors-peak-in-late-july…

Amazon ‘Destroyed the Retail Industry Across the US’ Says Treasury Secretary Mnuchin

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that Amazon “destroyed the retail industry across the United States” and that it’s appropriate for the attorney general to investigate the company alongside other tech giants in the sweeping antitrust review that the Justice Department announced yesterday. “There’s no question they’ve limited competition,” Mnuchin told CNBC’s Squawk Box. From the report: Mnuchin said that “although…

iOS and iPadOS 13 Beta 4 Signals Death of 3D Touch, Rise of Context Menu

Back in 2015, Apple introduced pressure-sensitive iPhone screens alongside 3D Touch as a potentially major hardware-software innovation, but barely supported the feature, leading to informed speculation that all of 2019’s iPhones would lose their pressure-sensing hardware. This week’s release of the fourth iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 developer betas appears to put the final nail in 3D Touch’s coffin, tightening up…

Is It Time To Get Rid Of The Caps Lock Key?

“At its worst, it’s a waste of precious space, an annoyance, a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist any more,” complains Daniel Colin James, a writer, developer, product manager. In a recent Medium essay, he called the Caps Lops key “an unnecessary holdover from a time when typewriters were the bleeding edge of consumer technology” — and even contacted the…

Intel Patches Two New Security Flaws

This week Intel announced two new patches, according to Tom’s Hardware:
The flaw in the processor diagnostic tool (CVE-2019-11133) is rated 8.2 out 10 on the CVSS 3.0 scale, making it a high-severity vulnerability. The flaw [found by security researcher Jesse Michael from Eclypsium] “may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, information disclosure or denial of service via…