apptoberewardeda majorlabelmusicdeal.
Thetracksareshort‘soundscapes’,idealforuse
asbackgroundmusicinappsandvideos,and
arecreatedusinganalgorithm.Amountofmoney
FortnitepublisherEpic
Gamesis making
availableformediaand
entertainmentprojects
thatuseitsUnreal
Engine.Grantsof
between$5,000and
$500,000willbe
awardedtoartists,
students,developersand
othersaspartofEpic’s
MegaGrantprogramme.NumberofAsusPCsvulnerableto
the‘ShadowHammer’malware
attackthatlandedin March.The
malware,whichposedasa security
update,wasdiscoveredbyanti-
virusvendorKaspersky,whichsaid
57,000ofitscustomerswere
affected;whileSymantecsaid
13,000ofitsuserswere.Asushas
sinceissueda ssue.Numberof hoursthatClippy
returnedbeforebeingkilledoff
again.TheformerMSOffice
assistantreappearedin March
asa free-to-download
animatedstickerpackfor
MicrosoftTeamsonGitHub,
butonedaylaterhewasgone.Number of Facebook users who could have had
their passwords compromised, thanks to an
astonishing security flaw within the company.
The passwords, which were stored in plain text,
were readily accessible by any one of 20,
Facebook employees – a situation that persisted
foryears.Theflawhasnowbeenfixed.Sizeof thefinehandeddowntoGooglein itslatest
anti-trustspatwiththeEU.Googlewasin thedockfor
forcingcustomerstouseitsownAdSenseservice,
ratherthanallowingthemtogetadrevenuefrom
othersearchengines.Google’sbeenslappedwith
EUfinestwicebefore– onefor€4.3billionin 2018;
andanotherfor€2.4billionin 2017.Ouch.$100 MILLION
€1.5 BILLION
1 MILLION
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May 2019 | |^9
Rob Mead-Green reveals a host
of fascinating digital facts