One-character bug gives away $90m in COMP tokens – recipients can keep 10% or consider themselves doxxed
Hand back the money or I'm letting the IRS know, says DeFi biz bossContinue readingRobert Leshner, founder of decentralized finance biz Compound Labs, has asked for the return of roughly $90m worth of COMP tokens after a smart contract bug distributed more of the cryptocurrency than it should have.
COMP tokens get distributed on a daily basis to users of the Compound protocol. They grant holders a say in the communal governance of the protocol, which is used for financial transactions like borrowing and lending with cryptocurrencies.
Decentralized finance relies on smart contracts that don't necessarily live up to their name to handle transactions. That is to say, the code controlling these smart contracts often contains dumb mistakes.
Internet Archive's 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist
Stop cheering, you're meant to think this is a bad thingContinue readingThe Internet Archive has launched a campaign against tech regulation by setting up a Wayforward Machine, semi-parodying its famous Wayback Machine archiving site.
The Wayforward Machine paints a picture of the internet in 2046 – smeared with censorship, regulation, governmental interference, and more.
On typing in any well-known web address to the Wayforward Machine, the viewer is presented with a number of popups – all of which suggest a nightmarish future where governmental surveillance reigns supreme and privacy is heavily frowned upon.
Open-source veteran PostgreSQL emits release 14: Tweaked, scalable, and ready to get heavy
That's the hope as distributed and heavy workloads promised a boost in targeting Oracle for high-end workloadsContinue readingOpen-source database fans were given reason to celebrate this week with the release of PostgreSQL 14, an iteration of the RDBMS featuring performance improvements for heavy and distributed workloads.
The seasonal autumn release was posted yesterday, and though PostgreSQL 14 may not include a set of big wow new features, more than 220 updates add up to performance improvements for high-end systems, said Umair Shahid, head of PostgreSQL at open-source technology consultancy Percona.
'The sheer number of additional features is significantly larger, but no single feature carries the entire release. The release focuses on the performance of the database: not just the database internals performing better, but also the SQL queries running faster and a focus on parallelism,' Shahid said.
Sure, you can do Kubernetes at scale. But can you do it securely too?
Learn how to do both at KubeSec Enterprise vSummitContinue readingSponsored Doing cloud native at enterprise scale is no mean feat, but doing it securely is the real challenge.
So, who do you turn to for practical guidance? To help you better understand and navigate the challenges enterprise scale brings, KubeSec Enterprise vSummit will focus on real-world enterprise experience in securing production environments.
This full-day virtual event offers a unique opportunity to hear from your peers as well as leading experts, analysts, and guest speakers who know the ins and outs of the cloud native industry.
Danish artist pockets museum's cash and calls it art.. and other stories
Another convocation of confusion from around the world that you may have missedContinue readingRoundup Welcome to another lash-up of lunacy, as we gather together some odd and unusual stories from the past few days and pass them to you surreptitiously while suggesting 'the swallows fly south at sunset' in a bad Hungarian accent.
That 'anti-NSO Pegasus spyware' download is actually a Trojan – so don't touch it
Cisco Talos spots early-stage campaign targeting low-info usersContinue readingA malware peddler has created a fake website posing as Amnesty International to serve gullible marks with software that claims to protect users against NSO Group's Pegasus malware. In fact it's a remote access Trojan (RAT).
Trading on fears about the Pegasus malware, this development takes the usual evolution of malware download lures (typically themed around topical news items) and picks a particularly nasty vector, preying on those looking for protection against advanced threats.
The phony Amnesty website looks very similar to the real thing, and offers users 'AntiPegasus' software for download to a Windows desktop. The malware (for that's what it is) 'scans' the user's machine, while in reality dropping a Trojan; the malicious app itself is superficially camouflaged to fool non-technically-adept users into thinking they've downloaded safe software.
Qlik bursts out of data visualization, makes play for automation
Sets sights on Salesforce and other SaaSy processesErstwhilehealth and safety'
Continue readingIKEA has removed hidden security cameras from its warehouse in Peterborough, England, after an employee spotted one in the ceiling void while using the toilet. Cracking and patching.
Workers at the Swedish flat-pack furniture giant were concerned that they may have been spied on while in the bathroom.
The discovery was made last week when the lights were switched off. A member of staff spotted what appeared to be a small red light between the panels of a suspended ceiling. When they investigated, they found the hidden camera.
Cheeky chappy rides horse around London filling station, singing: 'I don't need petrol 'cos he runs on carrots'
Continue readingFirst it was bog roll and pasta shortages. Now people are panic-buying petrol to round out the post-pandemic/Brexit apocalypse.
It's a suboptimal situation but an effective ad campaign for electric cars or, indeed, any other mode of transport that doesn't run on fossil fuels. Generic midi usb driver.
And as with any suboptimal situation, you'll find Brits making mirth – like 26-year-old Gus Dolphin who filmed himself on kiddie video app TikTok riding a horse into a petrol station forecourt mocking the panic-buying masses.
Zoom Five9 deal goes kaboom after shareholders say 'nope'
$15bn merger scrapped following scrutiny from US authoritiesContinue readingFive9 shareholders have slammed the brakes on a proposed $15bn merger with videoconferencing giant Zoom.
The all-share transaction, mooted in July, would have seen Zoom snap up Contact-Centre-as-a-Service outfit Five9, broadening its reach beyond videoconferencing. With customers moving back to offices, a broader range of services would seem a smart move for a company whose name is to video chat what Google's has become for web searching.
It all looked so promising. The Zoom and Five9 boards had given the hefty transaction their blessing. Only regulatory approval and a nod from Five9 shareholders were required to seal the deal for an anticipated closure in the first half of 2022.
- Editing Broken Hyperlinks Download Article 1. Open the workbook with the broken hyperlink (s). You can usually open the file in Excel by double-clicking its. Right-click the hyperlink and select Edit Hyperlink. Verify the link location. If, when you click a hyperlink, you see an error.
- Source: Excel Formula Not Working (wallstreetmojo.com) #1 Cells Formatted as Text. Now let’s look at the solutions for the reasons given above for the excel formula not working. Now take a look at the first possibility of formula showing the formula itself, not the result of the formula.
In the Excel desktop application, to select a cell that contains a hyperlink without jumping to the hyperlink destination, click the cell and hold the mouse button until the pointer becomes a cross, then release the mouse button. In Excel for the web, select a cell by clicking it when the pointer is an arrow; jump to the hyperlink destination by clicking when the pointer is a pointing hand.
Problem: I pasted hundreds of web site addresses into Excel. They did not turn into hyperlinks. I found that I could select a cell, press F2, then Enter to make the hyperlink. But I don't want to have to do that hundreds of times.
- Pasted hyperlinks are not hot.
Strategy: Use the =HYPERLINK() function. Insert a blank column near your data. Use =HYPERLINK(A1,A1).
- The second A1 is supposed to be a friendly name.
Enter the formula and copy it down to all rows.
- Column B contains live hyperlinks.
Hide column A, leaving column B intact.
Gotcha: This strategy works great for web addresses that have the leading http://. It will not work for cell A5. A hyperlink will appear, but when someone follows the hyperlink, it will say the address is invalid. In that case, you could use this formula: =HYPERLINK('http://'&A5,A5).