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Quibi pretty much dead in the water
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Monday, 20 July 2020 12:25

Quibi pretty much dead in the water


Blames coronavirus

Jeffrey Katzenberg is blaming the coronavirus for the failure of his Quibi streaming service to attract much interest in three months. He is ignoring the fact that if you can’t flog a streaming service when people can’t leave their homes and have nothing to do, you are probably in trouble.

Trump brags how he forced the UK to abandon Hauwei
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Boris Johnson has to give me his lunch money now

Britain announced on Tuesday that it would ban equipment from the Chinese technology giant Huawei from the country's high-speed wireless network, even if it means falling behind on 5G and ending up with a more expensive product.

SigRed bug worms into Windows DNS
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Wednesday, 15 July 2020 10:36

SigRed bug worms into Windows DNS


Microsoft warns the 17 year old bug is critical

A potentially "wormable" vulnerability -- meaning an attack can spread from one machine to another with no human interaction -- has appeared in Microsoft's implementation of the domain name system protocol.