Patch your darn metal bird, sighs EU aviation agency

SAMBA versus SMB: Adversarial interoperability is judo for network effects

Even when a given open source project once was the right technical choice, sometimes you need to leave it behind. Here's how to tell when it's time to find another option. @Enterprisenxt

On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its own work in data visualization and (more generally) tools to help enterprises make sense of the sea of data that they use and amass: Salesforce …

Apple has removed Dashboard support from WebKit, not long after it was discovered that the feature has been completely dropped in macOS Catalina, according to a changelog spotted by Japanese blog Mac Otakara.

The problems in communication are insurmountable. Here are the top 6 problems you may face when using the wrong communication app.

Microsoft just put out a blog post about Windows 10’s quality, and it’s very defensive. Microsoft doesn’t explain what happened with the October 2018 Update at all, nor does it promise to change the development process in the future. The only real commitment is to more transparency and improved communication going forward.

Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet.

One of the biggest shake-ups we’ve seen in the iOS user-interface was the replacement of skeuomorphism – making things look like real-life objects – with the complete opposite in iOS 7. Where once we had realistic looking 3D representations, we instead got a ‘flat’ UI which goes out of its way to remain 2D. While some feel that skeuomorphism looks old-fashioned these days, the approach still has its fans even now – and Apple has shown signs of beginning to adopt a new take on the look using something called anisotropism …

New rule narrows landmark 2014 Supreme Court decision limiting software patents.

Version 65.0, first offered to Release channel users on January 29, 2019. We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!

Born in a storm of snow, killed off in a blizzard of TCP/IP: The Bulletin Board System

One operating system for two platforms? It's an old idea, which has never worked out, but the Linux laptop and smartphone company Purism is giving it another try.

Today Apple has rolled out an update to the Browse tab in Apple Music, which all users should see soon. The new Browse tab surfaces a lot more content up front without requiring tapping through other menus first; it does, however, retain the same basic design language and feel as before. The new Browse tab starts off the same as it always has, with a collection of featured banners up top to highlight new releases, Up Next artists, or newly updated playlists.

Apple released today security updates for iOS, fixing 51 vulnerabilities in version 12.2 of the operating system. The products impacted are iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and newer, 6th generation iPods. Products running tvOS - Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD, which is based on iOS to a large degree, should be updated to 12.2 as they are also affected by 36 of the same vulnerabilities.

“Hallelujah! All our problems are solved!” At least that’s how some reacted when it was discovered that the May 2019 Update for Windows 10 will give users some control over when feature updates are installed. This reaction is perfectly understandable after last year’s update disasters, but I wouldn’t get my hopes up just yet. There are widespread reports that the recent April update for Windows 10 has caused system freezes, crashes and slowdowns for some users.

A cryptographic puzzle proposed two decades ago that involves roughly 80 trillion squarings has been cracked much earlier than expected – in just three and a half years. We say cryptographic because it involves a verifiable delay function [PDF], a moderately hard cryptographic function. The conundrum was set by Ronald Rivest in 1999, the R in RSA and a computer science professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL). Here's how he described the problem:

Job software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t.

If you’re part of the DarkModeEverything Movement (I just named it that) you’ll be disappointed to know that the much anticipated WhatsApp dark mode might not be coming to the application after all. After rumours started swirling confirming the existence of the feature we even got a closer look at what dark mode would look like but alas, the feature might have died a premature death. WABetaInfo (the authority on WhatsApp leaks) has said the company has stopped working on the feature.

Android Q introduces a bunch of new features, while putting protections in place to provide even more transparency and control over your data.