Selling a startup can come with an emotional cost

Every founder dreams of building a substantial company. For those who make it through the myriad challenges, it typically results in an exit. If it’s through an acquisition, that can mean cashing in your equity, paying back investors and rewarding long-time employees, but it also usually results in a loss of power and a substantially […] Continue reading Selling a startup can come with an emotional cost

Hackaday Links: September 20, 2020

The announcement of Autodesk’s changes to the Fusion 360 personal use license terms this week caused quite a dustup. Our article on the announcement garnered a lot of discussion and not a few heated comments. At the end of the day, though, Autodesk is going to do what it’s going …read more

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Autodesk Announces Major Changes to Fusion 360 Personal Use License Terms

Change is inevitable, and a part of life. But we’re told that nobody likes change. So logically, it seems we’ve proved nobody likes life. QED.

That may be a reach, but judging by the reaction of the Fusion 360 community to the announced changes to the personal use license, they’re …read more

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Hackers-for-hire using malicious 3Ds Max plugin for industrial espionage

By Deeba Ahmed
This hackers-for-hire group is carrying out espionage operations against businesses across the globe.
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Microsoft Issues Out-Of-Band Security Update For Office, Paint 3D

The flaws exist in Autodesk’s FBX library, integrated in Microsoft’s Office, Office 365 ProPlus and Paint 3D applications. Continue reading Microsoft Issues Out-Of-Band Security Update For Office, Paint 3D

Update MS Office, Paint 3D to plug RCE vulnerabilities

A week after the April 2020 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates for its Office suite, to fix a handful of vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit to achieve remote code execution. At the same time, a security update … Continue reading Update MS Office, Paint 3D to plug RCE vulnerabilities

Datastax acquires The Last Pickle

Data management company Datastax, one of the largest contributors to the Apache Cassandra project, today announced that it has acquired The Last Pickle (and no, I don’t know what’s up with that name either), a New Zealand-based Cassandra consulting and services firm that’s behind a number of popular open-source tools for the distributed NoSQL database. […] Continue reading Datastax acquires The Last Pickle

Qubole launches Quantum, its serverless database engine

Qubole, the data platform founded by Apache Hive creator and former head of Facebook’s Data Infrastructure team Ashish Thusoo, today announced the launch of Quantum, its first serverless offering. Qubole may not necessarily be a household name, but its customers include the likes of Autodesk, Comcast, Lyft, Nextdoor and Zillow . For these users, Qubole […] Continue reading Qubole launches Quantum, its serverless database engine