Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks
Over the weekend, hackers targeted federated social networks like Mastodon to carry out ongoing spam attacks that were organized on Discord, and conducted using Discord applications. But Discord has yet to remove the server where the attacks are facilitated, and Mastodon community leaders have been unable to reach anyone at
Read moreRivian lays off 10% of workforce as EV pricing pressure mounts
Rivian is laying off 10% of its salaried workforce in a bid to cut costs in an increasingly tough market for electric vehicles, putting even more pressure on its future, more affordable EV called the R2. A limited number of non-manufacturing hourly employees will also be cut, founder and CEO
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Read moreOpenText sustainability report cites challenges IT departments face
A new report commissioned by OpenText, released yesterday, indicates that IT departments are playing a major role in achieving corporate sustainability objectives, but concludes a lack of innovative tools and expertise are primary roadblocks to allowing them to meet their goals. The 2023 State of IT Sustainability Report, conducted by
Read moreHiring to continue in Canada despite challenges: Robert Half study
Over 50 per cent of Canadian technology managers plan to hire in the first half of 2024 despite persisting challenges to find skilled talent, a new study by hiring platform Robert Half reveals. Respondents included executives, senior managers and workers from small (20-249 employees), medium (250-499 employees) and large (500+
Read moreIn a reversal, Apple is now demanding 30% of the donations to meditation app Insight Timer’s teachers
The CEO of meditation app Insight Timer, Christopher Plowman, is frustrated. He doesn’t think the teachers who leverage his app’s marketplace to reach their students should have to share 30% of their income with Apple — its commission on in-app purchases — and for the past 12 months, Apple had
Read moreAbuse of valid accounts by threat actors hits a high, says IBM
For years, cybersecurity experts have been warning organizations of the importance of identity and access management processes — including password management and protection against compromise of multifactor authentication — to secure IT assets. A new report from IBM, released Wednesday, suggests failure to do that is increasingly costing firms badly.
Read moreOpposition MPs hammer head of PHAC over ArriveCAN app
Opposition MPs hammered the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) on Tuesday for its role in not tightly overseeing the $59 million spent on the ArriveCAN app, but failed to get answers to repeated demands asking who made decisions. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and
Read moreVaraha helps Indian farmers reduce climate-harming practices like burning crop residue and flooding rice fields
Varaha has attacted investor interest as an end-to-end developer for carbon credits that it generates by working with thousands of smallholder farmers yielding crops on a total land of over 700,000 acres across India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Kenya. The voluntary carbon offset market will reach $250 billion by 2050 from
Read moreNodeShift wants to challenge the hyperscalers with its decentralized cloud
When the large cloud providers have excess compute capacity, they tend to discount it through programs like AWS’s and Azure’s spot instances. Any time a server idles, it isn’t making the company money, after all. NodeShift aims to take this concept and expand it well beyond the big clouds —
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