Thousands of enterprise systems are believed to have been infected with a cryptocurrency-mining malware operated by a group tracked under the codename of Blue Mockingbird. From a report: Discovered earlier this month by malware analysts from cloud security firm Red Canary, the Blue Mockingbird group is believed to have been active since December 2019. Researchers say Blue Mockingbird attacks public-facing servers…
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Google’s Flutter: 2 Million Developers, Uptick In Enterprise Use, New Release Model Revealed
Liam Tung writing via ZDNet: Google says two million developers have used its Flutter user-interface (UI) framework for building apps targeting mobile, desktop, and the web since declaring it production ready at Google I/O 2018. Flutter is on the rise, according to Google’s Tim Sneath, who said Flutter use grew 10% in March compared with February — despite COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic…
Microsoft Teases Revamped UI For Windows 10
In celebration of Windows 10 hitting 1 billion users, Microsoft’s chief product officer Panos Panay teased Windows 10’s next UI refresh. Gizmodo reports: In the video posted to Instagram, Microsoft starts by showing the evolution of its OS throughout the years going as far back as Windows 1.01 all the way to Windows 10. However, where things start to get interesting…
Chrome OS To Get Native App For Printing and Scanning Documents
According to 9to5Google, Google is working on a native Chrome OS app for printing and scanning documents. From the report: While there are many ways to start printing on Chrome OS, there’s no real way to see what you’ve currently got queued to print, when not using Cloud Print [which is shutting down at the end of the year]. This is…
TCL Unveils Trifold and Rollable Smartphones
A year ago, we started to see the first wave of foldable devices and they were … disappointing. But companies are not backing down. TCL is already looking ahead with a pair of foldable and rollable prototypes that imagines what the future of phones could look like. From a report: One is a trifold variant with two hinges, while the other…
Larry Tesler, Computer Scientist Who Created Cut, Copy, and Paste, Dies At 74
Larry Tesler, a computer scientist who created the terms “cut,” “copy,” and “paste,” has passed away at the age of 74. Gizmodo reports: Born in 1945 in New York, Tesler went on to study computer science at Stanford University, and after graduation he dabbled in artificial intelligence research (long before it became a deeply concerning tool) and became involved in the…
Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?
Recently a well-respected UI consulting firm (the Nielsen Norman Group) published their analysis of academic studies on the question of whether Dark Mode or Light Mode was better for reading? Cosima Piepenbrock and her colleagues at the Institut für Experimentelle Psychologie in Düsseldorf, Germany studied two groups of adults with normal (or corrected-to-normal) vision: young adults (18 to 33 years old)…
Chrome 80 Arrives With Mixed Content Autoupgraded To HTTPS, Cookie Changes, and Contact Picker API
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Google today launched Chrome 80 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The release includes autoupgrading mixed content to HTTPS, SameSite cookie changes, quieter permission UI for notifications, and more developer features. This release thus beefs up security for the world’s most popular browser and begins cracking down on cross-site cookies. You can…
The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
John Gruber: Ten years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the iPad on stage at the Yerba Buena theater in San Francisco. […] Ten years later, though, I don’t think the iPad has come close to living up to its potential. […] Software is where the iPad has gotten lost. iPadOS’s “multitasking” model is far more capable than the iPhone’s, yes, but…
Jira Software Gets Better Roadmaps
Atlassian today announced an update to Jira Software, its popular project and issue-tracking tool, that brings a number of major updates to the roadmapping feature it first introduced back in 2018. From a report: Back in 2018, Atlassian also launched its rebuilt version of Jira Software, which took some of its cues from Trello, and today’s release builds upon this. “When…