10 August 2020

• ITWC Morning Briefing, August 10, 2020 – Experts weigh in on Reddit hack
  To keep up with the firehose of news and press releases, we’ve decided to deliver some extra news to you on the side every Monday and Thursday morning. Some of it is an extension of our own reporting that didn’t make its way into a story, while others might be content we’ve bookmarked for later…
• Cyber Security Today – Canon hit by ransomware, more on fake website addresses and a bank fined for a hack
  Today's podcast describes the latest ransomware attack, gives more detail on how fake websites can be spotted and reports a U.S. bank fined for a data breach
• Hashtag Trending – Reddit gets hacked; Facebook doubles down on WFH; Holograms over Zoom
  A massive hack hits Reddit, Facebook doubles down on its work from home policy, and Zoom’s old news - it’s all about holograms now.
• Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 Plus hands-on: can the best Android tablet replace a laptop?
  Can the best tablet beat out a traditional laptop?
• Persistent memory – reshaping advanced analytics to improve customer experiences
  Keeping hot data closer to the CPU has become increasingly difficult in these capacity-limited situations.
• A quick primer on graph databases
  Graph databases have moved from a topic of academic study into the mainstream of information technology in the last few years. Now business analysts are confronted with the need to better understand: What business problems do graph databases address well? What advantages do graph databases offer over widely-implemented...
• Hashtag Trending – Google ends Pixel 4; cell service outage in eastern Canada; Excel dates human genes
  Google discontinues its flagship smartphones, residents in eastern Canada were hit with a cell service outage yesterday, scientists renamed 27 human genes to appease Excel.
• NGMN whitepaper offers guidance on 5G sustainability
  NGMN offers guidance on 5G's energy consumption and sustainability practices.
• Cyber Security Today – How to avoid going to fake web sites
  Today's podcast looks at ways to make sure you go where you want, not to sites created by crooks
• All those Zoom meetings and hangouts are impacting your brain, experts say – Yahoo
  Mental health experts say constant video chat and Zoom meetings are draining users more than in-person conversations, and Zoom fatigue is setting in.  “Zoom fatigue is a unique kind of exhaustion that occurs when people participate in teleconferencing calls for an extended time period,” says Savitri Dixon-Saxon, Ph.D.,...