An anonymous reader writes: Videos collected by 404 Media over months give a peek into the world of spoofing numbers, automated call scripts, and a specific seller of the phones. From the report: “Alright lads,” a man sitting in the passenger seat of a…

Australian telecoms provider Optus said on Monday that a massive outage which effectively cut off 40% of the country’s population and triggered a political firestorm was caused by “changes to routing information” after a “routine software upgrade.” Fro…

Despite having a population of just 1,400, until recently, Tokelau’s .tk domain had more users than any other country. Here’s why: Tokelau, a necklace of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Ea…

An anonymous reader shares a report: A young man sits in a car, pointing a cellphone camera out of the window, seemingly trying to remain undetected. As he breathes heavily in anticipation, he peers at a T-Mobile store across the road from where he is …

An ongoing Cloudflare outage has taken down many of its products, including the company’s dashboard and related application programming interfaces (APIs) customers use to manage and read service configurations. From a report: The complete list of servi…

Negotiations to merge Western Digital’s semiconductor memory business and Japan’s Kioxia Holdings have been terminated, Nikkei reported Thursday. From the report: The companies were aiming to reach an agreement by the end of October. U.S.-based Western…

Unciphered, a Seattle-based startup, claims to have cracked the seemingly unbreakable encryption of IronKey S200, a decade-old USB thumb drive. By exploiting an undisclosed vulnerability in the device, the company says it can bypass the drive’s feature…

Matter — the IOT connectivity standard with ambitions to fix the smart home and make all of our gadgets talk to each other — has hit version 1.2, adding support for nine new types of connected devices. From a report: Robot vacuums, refrigerators, was…

“Dropbox said Friday that it’s agreed to return over one quarter of its San Francisco headquarters to the landlord,” reports CNBC, “as the commercial real estate market continues to soften following the Covid pandemic.”

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Redis, the go-to in-memory database used as a cache and system broker, is looking to include disk as part of a tiered storage architecture to reduce costs and broaden the system’s appeal. From a report: Speaking to The Register, CEO Rowan Trollope said…