The Google-owned platform is taking advantage of its position as a solid music player. In an announcement, the company says it will now promote live gigs on related artists videos. To help with this, the platform has teamed with Ticketmaster to integrate the latter’s live show sales into YouTube. For the end user, there may not be too many differences. Under the current system, artists can still promote their own dates alongside videos....

Sure, YouTube Red has already has some movie releases, but none have been an expression of the art form. The latest aims to change that, and has a Hollywood bona-fide attached in Susa Sarandon. Right, some of a certain generation may be asking, “Who”? It’s in post-production at the moment so we will have to see if YouTube’s ambitions are met in the final product. Still, it shows a new path the company will be increasingly treading in the coming years....

The survey looks at close 100,000 PCs and indicates a 5% uptick in 1903 users since last month. This puts it on par with the initial adoption rate of the previous Windows 10 October 2018 update, which isn’t good news. Many months after its release, the October update (1809) sits at just 30% adoption. The 1803 April update from early last year remains the most popular, despite numerous security and feature improvements in the later builds....

Microsoft warned on November 8 that worse BlueKeep exploits are coming after the first attack, which was a crypto miner, began on November 2. The ‘wormable’ bug lies in Remote Desktop Services in Windows 7, XP, and Server 2003 and 2008. By using service Shodan.io, SANS was able to analyze the number of systems vulnerable to BlueKeep over time and combine it with the number of systems responding on port 3389....

The publication says an Echo device sent 1,700 recordings from one user to another when Alexa was requested to play back recordings. For some reason, the Echo played back recordings from another user. Speaking to Reuters, the company says: “We resolved the issue with the two customers involved and took measures to further optimize our processes. As a precautionary measure we contacted the relevant authorities.” Recent Problems “We’re contacting you to let you know that our website inadvertently disclosed your email address due to a technical error....

“Since we filed our protest, we’ve been clear in our intent: we don’t think the JEDI award was adjudicated fairly, we think political interference blatantly impacted the award decision, and we’re committed to ensuring the evaluation receives a fair, objective, and impartial review. Recently, Microsoft has published multiple self-righteous and pontificating blog posts that amount to nothing more than misleading noise intended to distract those following the protest. To save you some space (and time)”....

Starting in 2020, the company will present a new screen on Android when devices are being setup. The page will offer users a choice of search engines beyond Google’s own market-leading Search. Whatever search choice the user makes will then become the default search on the device (it can still be changed later via settings). This chosen search will be visible on the Android home screen and in the Chrome browser....

Speaking to Engadget, Cupertino confirmed it will ditch the products. Despite this decision, Apple will continue to support its existing routers with security patches and bug fixes. The move brings to an end the almost two-decade lifespan of the AirPort lineup, one of Apple’s most established product series. Apple was early into router development, aiming to dominate what was then a nascent market. However, the company was always (correctly) more focused on other hardware and more dedicated router providers took control of the market....

However, VentureBeat is asking a wider question about what Minecraft Earth’s demise means for the wider AR gaming scene. Along with the clear decline of Pokémon Go, does this all mean AR gaming ends here? No, is the answer and the reality is AR gaming had a debut few other gaming technologies have ever had. As it now moves through a period of decline, there’s a lot of positives for the future of the genre....

This new service sees Microsoft move its idea of unifying data towards governance. Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform is an integration of analytics, databases, and governance solutions into a single product. By gathering all elements under one product umbrella, Microsoft says it is taking another step towards unifying data in the cloud. This new product includes the Azure Data product line-up (Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Factory, Azure AQL, Cosmos DB, SQL Server 2022, etc....

Thankfully, Microsoft’s cloud storage solution has now doubled its maximum. Consumers can now get up to 2 TB of space without having a business account by adding to their current Office 365 plan. They can add 200, 400, 600, 800, or 1000 GB more, with varying costs: 200 GB – $1.99 a month 400 GB – $3.99 a month 600 GB – $5.99 a month 800 GB – $7.99 a month 1 TB – $9....

The publication says its 15″ Ryzen 5 Surface Laptop has moderate backlight bleeding, DPC latency issues, and display flickering. Interestingly, Reddit users are reporting a multitude of different issues, many of them different from Notebook Checks’. Meanwhile, several users are reporting abnormally loud fans. This includes u/mancala24 with a Ryzen 7 Laptop 3, and u/Gernug with the Pro 7. Other issues with the Pro 7 appear to include wobbly kickstands and rattling noises....

Included in the dump are card numbers, account holder names, banks, card types, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, expiration dates, and CVV numbers. Yes, just about everything someone would need to purchase items online using the card. As well as the obvious risk of financial fraud, the data provides enough for a threat actor to steal the identity of those involved. Many of the cards are active with expiration dates between 2023 and 2026....

However, the guidelines, for the moment, are just that. They’re entirely voluntary. It’s a tactic that hasn’t always worked for Brussels in the past, with the voluntary standardization of charging connectors being a recent example. It seems that once again, Brussels isn’t happy with the progress. EU commissioner for security Julian King says it may “take stronger action”. Speaking to the Financial Times, he revealed plans to enact regulation on sites, regardless of size....

“Facebook has earned the prize of domination. It is worth half a trillion dollars and commands, by my estimate, more than 80 percent of the world’s social networking revenue,” he said in a New York Times op-ed. “It is a powerful monopoly, eclipsing all of its rivals and erasing competition from the social networking category. This explains why, even during the annus horribilis of 2018, Facebook’s earnings per share increased by an astounding 40 percent compared with the year before....

Facebook sees the growing popularity of Stories and wants to make the feature more visible. With that in mind, it seems the company is testing an integration where Stories are combined with the News Feed. Of course, the News Feed is the central hub of Facebook, so clearly Stories till become a major part of the network’s whole experience. They will also change the way users interact with the News Feed....

In a Private Industry Notification (PDF) on Monday, the FBI says the attack groups fooled investors by using information and logos from legitimate financial institutions. People thought they were connecting with a real cryptocurrency firm when in reality they were being defrauded. This was a relatively sophisticated scam that also involved creating websites to look authentic. The goal was to prey on the interest around cryptocurrency investments. While crypto is going through a challenging spell, it remains popular amongst investors....

There are two stand-outs here. The first is Frostpunk, a critically acclaimed city-building strategy game that has players managing the last city on a frozen earth. Created by the team behind This War is Mine, it forces players to make tough decisions to keep their colonists alive while keeping a tense atmosphere and engaging story. FTL: Faster than Light is also excellent in its own right. The rouge-like real-time strategy game has been around a good while now and has players managing their space-crew through a randomly generated galaxy....

The source code was available through a commit on the company’s DMCA section. Whoever perpetrated the “attack” made the claim it came from Nat Friedman, CEO of GitHub. In response, Friedman took to the YCombinator Hacker News site to deny a hack has taken place. He says neither his nor company data has been compromised. Friedman points out the leak does not cover all of GitHub’s source code but does include some from the Enterprise Server service....

In a blog post, the company confirmed it has launched a subsidiary in India. Like other areas of tech, India is a major growth market. For GitHub, the company is looking to capitalize on the significant growth it has seen in the country. Indeed, the company says India is now home to the third-largest community of developers on the platform. In 2019 alone the market saw a 22% growth and 75% boost in public repositories....