Wayne Rash

For some time now, everyone has been calling the next major release of Windows 10 the Spring Creators Update. That’s wrong. Microsoft has renamed it Windows 10 April 2018 Update.  Technically, the new Windows 10 feature update will be available on April 30 and users who want it then can download it from Microsoft, but […]

The new release of Gmail, which became available on April 25, is being aimed primarily at Google’s G Suite customers, but individuals with Gmail accounts will see the same improvements. The changes include a refreshed interface along with side panels that offer access to other features, such as the calendar and a to-do list.  Other […]

Chinese technology company ZTE has issued a statement strongly objecting to the U.S. Commerce Department’s decision to place export controls on the company.  In an April 20 email statement to eWEEK, the company said it has reflected on its lessons in export control compliance and was taking steps to get the decision reversed.  On April […]

Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X1 Carbon feels good in your hand. This is the 6th generation of this slim but powerful business ultrabook computer, and it brings back the touch screen that had been removed as an option in the 5th generation of this device.  This new generation of the X1 series includes the new faster […]

In the first joint statement of its kind, U.S. and UK cyber-security authorities have issued a Technical Alert to warn users of an ongoing campaign by Russian state-sponsored hackers to target network infrastructure.  The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) […]

Citing a long and continuing pattern of deception, cover-ups and evidence tampering as well as the failure to follow the provisions of a 2017 settlement agreement, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that he has allowed a previously imposed seven-year suspension of export privileges to go into effect.  The U.S. had agreed to not […]

When I saw the notice on my Facebook news feed, I felt a chill. My information was part of the breach that sent 87 million Facebook profiles to Cambridge Analytica. When I went back later to see what I could find out, that post had vanished, but I was able to find details in the […]

After nine hours of hearings and questions from approximately one hundred Members of Congress, Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg escaped with his life, but he may have brought regulation of social media closer to reality.  Zuckerberg was the sole witness at a joint hearing by the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees on April 10 […]

At first glance, the newest version of the standard 2018 iPad seems no different than the one it replaced. It’s the same size and weight, the screen is the same size at 9.7 inches diagonally and it comes in the same colors. But that sameness belies some real improvements, some of which move the new […]

In a week when Facebook desperately needed good news, most of what broke about the social network was anything but.  After a series of revelations about the vastness of the Cambridge Analytica data breach and acknowledgement that nearly all of Facebook’s 2.2 billion users have had their profile data scraped at one time or another, […]

The latest admissions by Facebook executives indicate that the personal information of virtually all of its 2.2 billion users could have been accessed by unauthorized third parties.  In a posting by Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer, the social network admitted that many third parties besides Cambridge Analytica had access to user personal data. Facebook increased its […]

Imagine someone running in to your office and reporting that the building is on fire. Also imagine that the person is dressed as a firefighter and that there’s a big red truck outside your building with a full firefighting crew. What would you do? If you were executives at Panera Bread, apparently you’d ignore the […]