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How China’s attack on Microsoft escalated into a “reckless” hacking spree
While President Joe Biden contemplates retaliating against the Russian hackers whose attack on another software company, SolarWinds, became public in December, the Hafnium hack has become an enormous free-for-all, and its consequences could be even worse. As experts sprint to …

Magento 2 Pre Order Extension by Mageplaza
Customers may feel very disappointed when they cannot buy their favorite products because they’re out of stock. They may leave your site immediately to find another store on the market. Offering pre-order is one of the most effective ways to …

Nestlé: Good Food, Good Life, Good E-commerce
This company needs no introductions! Nestle is our partner for a quite long period of time. Its history begins in 1866, with the foundation of the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. A year after, Henri Nestlé developed a breakthrough infant food, …

Roblox: How the children’s game became a $30bn bet on the Metaverse
Writing in Wired at the beginning of the year, Mr Baszucki said: “We will see a shift in the way people play, work, learn or simply hang out in 2021. Some of these connections will move into the Metaverse, a …

This Democrat has a federal privacy bill Republicans might actually like
Is 2021 the year we’ll finally get a federal consumer privacy law? Barring another worldwide disaster, all signs point to yes — or at the very least, some significant progress toward one. Several senators and representatives who introduced privacy bills …

Songclip raises $11M to bring more licensed music to social media
The team behind Songclip thinks that social media could use more music. Yes, music is a big part of the experience on a handful of apps like TikTok and Triller, but Songclip co-founder and COO John vanSuchtelen told me, “That …

Critical 0-day that targeted security researchers gets a patch from Microsoft
Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer | Getty Images) Google and Microsoft. Hackers backed by the North Korean government, both posts said, spent weeks developing working relationships with security researchers. To win the researchers’ trust, the hackers created a research blog and …

How much longer will the Hubble Space Telescope last?
Hubble’s aging hardware was last serviced directly in 2009 by space shuttle astronauts, and engineers estimated back then that it would last until around 2016. “After a few years in flight with all the refurbishes, engineers reevaluated the survivability and …