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Software maker Brightly has confirmed that hackers stole close to three million SchoolDude user accounts in an April data breach. SchoolDude is a cloud-based work order management system, used primarily by schools and universities, to submit and track maintenance orders. Its users are school employees, like principals, executives and maintenance workers, as well as students and other staff submitting repair requests. In a data breach notice filed with the Maine attorney general’s office, Brightly said it was…

A few years ago, the director Stewart Laing invented a character called Paul Bright. He was a Glasgow performance artist who had staged an epic adaptation of Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg in the 1980s, and Laing assembled the press cuttings, posters and first-hand memories to prove it.In another parallel universe, 12 miles east in Airdrie, a band called Memorial Device were acquiring a similar cult status. As imagined by David Keenan in his 2017 novel, they grew out of the ashes of North Lanarkshire…

Pros Vivid detailed picture Smart calibration feature Bright screen for bright spaces Cons Expensive Confusing homepage No Dolby VisionMy experience with the Samsung QN90B over the last few weeks has been a simply magical.   When my old 55-inch Samsung LED TV died, I couldn't live without seeing my favorite shows in my living room. I wanted an even larger 4K TV to capture the fine detailing on Bridgerton costuming. That's where Samsung's latest model, the 65-inch QN90B QLED TV, comes in. It gave me the bright,…

Capcom's biggest arcade hit of the 90s was undoubtedly Street Fighter 2, a game that produced numerous imitators and set the benchmark for what gamers around the world expected from fighting and arcade games for years to come. But as the Capcom Fighting Collection underlines, there's far more to the Osaka-based devs arcade output that decade than Ken, Ryu et al. This new compendium is easily the most diverse and varied release of its kind so far from Capcom, and is packed to the brim full of arcade classics that each…

Wilfried Eckl-Dorna / Bloomberg: Siemens plans to buy Brightly, a North Carolina-based provider of buildings and infrastructure management software, from Clearlake Capital for $1.58B — Siemens AG will buy US firm Brightly Software for $1.58 billion to add digital services for buildings and infrastructure as the German company continues … Wilfried Eckl-Dorna / Bloomberg: Siemens plans to buy Brightly, a North Carolina-based provider of buildings and infrastructure management software, from…

When it comes to going out with style, nothing comes close to the end of a white dwarf. Their thermonuclear self-destruction ranks among the most powerful explosions in the cosmos, forcing the star to wink out of existence in a blaze of glory.  At least, that's the idea. A discovery confirms some white dwarfs fake their deaths with a lackluster performance, only to go on shining even brighter than before.Ten years ago, supernova SN 2012Z was spotted in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 1309, glowing briefly in a swan song…

Born in Edinburgh, Shirley Manson, 55, was in the bands Goodbye Mr Mackenzie and Angelfish before she relocated to the United States to become lead singer of Garbage. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1995 and went multi-platinum, and in 1999 they recorded the theme tune for the Bond film The World Is Not Enough. Last year, they released their seventh album, No Gods No Masters. Manson is also an actor and hosts The Jump podcast. She lives in Los Angeles with her second husband, the sound engineer Billy…