Wes Davis / The Verge: Microsoft updates Excel to fix automatic conversions, after scientists reworked the alphanumeric symbols used to represent genes in 2020 to avoid Excel issues  —  In 2020, scientists decided just to rework the alphanumeric symbols they used to represent genes rather than try to deal … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: Cisco releases patches for two zero-day flaws that hackers exploited on 50K+ IOS XE devices; researchers note hacked hosts recently dropped from 60K to ~300  —  Cisco has addressed the two vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-20273) that hackers exploited to compromise tens of thousands of IOS XE devices over the past week. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Goldberg / Digits to Dollars: How Qualcomm is tech’s “problem child”: a tense relationship with Apple, sued by Arm, investigated by regulators, disagreements with Google over Pixel, and more  —  Almost from the moment of its birth Qualcomm had to fight the world.  It is hard for us to understand today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Amazon rolls out passkey support on iOS and the web, letting users log in via their devices’ biometrics, and says support for Android is “coming soon”  —  Amazon’s rolling out passkey support for its online site and mobile shopping apps.  Customers can log in to Amazon using … Lees verder op Tech Meme