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Capital One data breach affects more than 100 million U.S., Canadian account holders

Following the discovery of the Capital One hack on July 19th, in which Capital One Bank’s accounts on the Amazon Web Services cloud were hacked by an AWS engineer who took advantage of a misconfigured firewall and stole data, approximately 100 million people in the United States and 6 million people in Canada are affected. […]

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Apple reportedly spending more than $30 million per month on Amazon Web Services to aid Services efforts

Sometimes you need some extra servers on hand. Although Apple and Amazon are often viewed as competitors, it appears that Apple is spending more than $30 million per month using Amazon Web Services to power Apple services such as iCloud. Apple is reportedly spending more than $300 million per year via Amazon’s cloud services. Apple […]

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Assorted Alexa-based devices have begun laughing at their users

Even though the HomePod may leave something to be desired in its current incarnation (wood-stained rings included), a number of Amazon’s Echo Alexa units have begun laughing at their owners. Following customer complaints of creepy, unprompted laughs coming from inside Alexa devices, Amazon has confirmed that it is aware of the feature issue and is […]

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Microsoft hints at bringing Visual Studio to macOS, launch date unknown

It’s a sign of both Microsoft and Apple growing up to the point that they’re sharing development tools for each other’s platforms. Microsoft has announced that it will be launching Visual Studio, its primary coding interface, for macOS. This has been a long time coming, but it’ll allow developers to easily write for platform-independent cloud […]