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Lawmakers compromised on an ambiguously worded amendment that narrows a failed but popular Senate proposal.

The initial police account of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis did not mention that an officer’s knee pinned him to the ground. “Please, I can’t breathe,” he said.

The social media company came under fire — again — for not removing Mr. Trump’s posts that contain falsehoods.

President Trump had ousted the official last month from a new role overseeing the administration’s spending of pandemic relief money.

Twitter added a link to two of President Trump’s tweets in which he had made false claims about mail-in ballots, urging people to “get the facts.”

On Twitter and at a news conference, the president said Joe Scarborough was responsible for the death of Lori Klausutis, who worked for him when he was a congressman. But Twitter refused her husband’s request to have the false tweets removed.

The Chinese city where the outbreak began is seeking to test all its 11 million residents, and the pandemic has forced the fashion industry to take a hard look in the mirror.

Joomla 3.9.18 is now available. This is a bugfix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses one bug.

Joomla 3.9.17 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses three security vulnerabilities and contains over 40 bug fixes and improvements.

Joomla, one of the world’s most popular Content Management Systems (CMS), announced today its partnership with Report URI, the Application Security and Health Monitoring leader.

Joomla 3.9.16 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses six security vulnerabilities and contains over 20 bug fixes and improvements.

Joomla 3.9.15 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses three low security vulnerabilities and contains over 20 bug fixes and improvements.

Joomla 3.9.14 is now available. This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses two security vulnerabilities and contains over 35 bug fixes and improvements.

Joomla 3.9.13 is now available. This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses two security vulnerabilities and contains over 15 bug fixes and improvements.

Mercedes-Benz is now selling its EQV 300 all-electric premium van in Europe, the second EV to come out of the automaker’s initiative to produce a line of battery-powered models under its new EQ brand. A concept version of the EQV was first shown in March 2019. But unlike so many concepts destined for nonexistence, this […]

As AI has grown from niche to mission-critical technology, the companies that enable it have multiplied and in many cases prospered. A good example of that success is DefinedCrowd, which has gone from the Disrupt stage to globe-spanning AI toolkit to the Fortune 500 in just a couple of years. The company just raised a […]

A growing number of tech companies is telling their employees they can work from anywhere, even after this pandemic has passed. A looming question, however, is how. Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees that Facebook will adjust the pay of those who choose to move out of the Bay Area and work in […]

Simple: Amazon offers up the content free of charge. The company has been on the offensive in recent weeks when it comes to how it has handled the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon’s offered all sorts of blog posts, public statements and made the subject a centerpiece of its recent shareholder letter and earnings report. It also […]

If only Facebook had been using the kind of technology that TechCrunch Startup Battlefield alumnus D-ID was pitching, it could have avoided exposing all of our faces to privacy destroying software services like Clearview AI. At least, that’s the pitch that D-ID’s founder and chief executive, Gil Perry, makes when he’s talking about the significance […]

Introduced as short-term fixes to the immediate threat of coronavirus, widespread data-sharing, monitoring and surveillance could become fixtures of modern public life.

Audi fired Daniel Abt from its Formula E racing team after learning he had a professional sim driver race for him during a virtual competition called the “Race at Home Challenge” held over the weekend. The automaker said in a statement via Formula E that Abt had been suspended from Audi Sport “with immediate effect.” […]

#422 – MAY 26, 2020 View in Browser » Waiting in asyncio There are many ways to wait on the results of a coroutine in Python’s asyncio framework. They all have different properties and use cases. In this article, they’ve all been collected in one place to help you figure out which one you need. HYNEK SCHLAWACK Latency in Asynchronous Python Where does latency in asynchronous programs come from? Explore some common mistakes in asyncio programming, the differences between bounded and unbounded queues, and a suggestion for some best practices for programming with asyncio. CHRTIS WELLONS Top 10 Python Tools to Make a Developer’s Life Easier Do you ever feel like your list of sprint tasks is infinite? ActiveState has curated the top 10 Python tools to automate the most common, repetitive tasks. From web framework to code template creation, make your life easier and focus on your next big project! Check out the top 10 list → ACTIVESTATE sponsor Creating and Modifying PDF Files in Python Explore the different ways of creating and modifying PDF files in Python. You’ll learn how to read and extract text, merge and concatenate files, crop and rotate pages, encrypt and decrypt files, and even create PDFs from scratch. REAL PYTHON Preventing SQL Injection: A Django Author’s Perspective How do you prevent a SQL injection? Learn about best practices and tools for checking for vulnerabilities in a codebase in this post from Django creator Jacob Kaplan-Moss. JACOB KAPLAN-MOSS Python Job Hunting in a Pandemic Do you know someone in the Python community who recently was let go from their job due to the pandemic? What does the job landscape currently look like? What are skills and techniques that will help you in your job search? This week Kyle Stratis discusses how he is managing his job search after just being let go from his data engineering job. 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What is pip? pip is the standard package manager for Python. It allows you to install and manage additional packages that are not part of the Python standard library. This course is an introduction to pip for new Pythonistas. In this course, you’ll learn about: Installing additional packages not included with the standard Python distribution Finding packages published to the Python Package Index (PyPI) Managing requirements for your scripts and applications Uninstalling packages and their dependencies As you’ll see, the Python community is very active and has created some neat alternatives to pip that you’ll learn about later in this course. [ Improve Your Python With ? Python Tricks ? – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple of days. >> Click here to learn more and see examples ]

In this tutorial, you will learn about regular expressions (RegEx), and use Python's re module to work with RegEx (with the help of examples).

Tor provides a SOCKS proxy so that you can have any application using the same to connect the Onion network. The default port is 9050. The Tor Browser also provides the same service on port 9150. In this post, we will see how can we use the same SOCKS proxy to access the Internet using Rust. You can read my previous post to do the same using Python. Using reqwest and tokio-socks crates I am using reqwest and tokio-socks crates in this example. The Cargo.toml file. [package] name = "usetor" version = "0.1.0" authors = ["Kushal Das <mail@kushaldas.in>"] edition = "2018" # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html [dependencies] tokio = { version = "0.2", features = ["macros"] } reqwest = { version = "0.10.4", features = ["socks", "json"] } serde_json = "1.0.53" The source code: use reqwest; use tokio; use serde_json; #[tokio::main] async fn main() -> Result<(), reqwest::Error> { let proxy = reqwest::Proxy::all("socks5://127.0.0.1:9050").unwrap(); let client = reqwest::Client::builder() .proxy(proxy) .build().unwrap(); let res = client.get("https://httpbin.org/get").send().await?; println!("Status: {}", res.status()); let text: serde_json::Value = res.json().await?; println!("{:#?}", text); Ok(()) } Here we are converting the response data into JSON using serde_json. The output looks like this. ✦ ❯ cargo run Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.06s Running `target/debug/usetor` Status: 200 OK Object({ "args": Object({}), "headers": Object({ "Accept": String( "*/*", ), "Host": String( "httpbin.org", ), "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": String( "Root=1-5ecc9e03-09dc572e6db5357f28eecf47", ), }), "origin": String( "51.255.45.144", ), "url": String( "https://httpbin.org/get", ), }) Instead of any normal domain, you can also connect to any .onion domain via the same proxy.

This tutorial tries to solve from the objectives related to solving and stabilizing compatibility errors between PyQt4 and PyQt5 and creating a common interface between PyQt5 and PyGame.There is always the same problem in programming when the developer for some reason has to change classes, methods and functions and reusing the old code is no longer valid.In this case, common or other errors

@ced wrote: Synopsis A vulnerability in sao has been found by Benjamin Kunz Mejri at Vulnerability-Lab. But they publish it without using our responsive disclosure procedure so we had to make this fix in the hurry. With issue9351 , the web client does not escape the HTML tags from user data. This allow cross-site scripting attack which result in session hijacking, persistent phishing attacks, persistent external redirects to malicious source. Impact CVSS v3.0 Base Score: 4.6 Attack Vector: Network Attack Complexity: Low Privileges Required: Low User Interaction: Required Scope: Unchanged Confidentiality: Low Integrity: Low Availability: None Workaround There is no existing workaround. Resolution All affected users should upgrade sao to the latest version. Affected versions per series: 5.6: <= 5.6.0 5.4: <= 5.4.6 5.2: <= 5.2.14 5.0: <=5.0.22 Non affected versions per series: 5.6: >= 5.6.1 5.4: >= 5.4.7 5.2: >= 5.2.15 5.0: >= 5.0.23 Reference issue9351 Concern? Any security concerns should be reported on the bug-tracker at https://bugs.tryton.org/ with the type security . Posts: 1 Participants: 1 Read full topic

Whew.Chapter rewrites finished.Technical reviews in process.Things are going pretty well. Look for Packt to publish this in the next few months. Details will be posted.Now. For LinkedIn Learning course recordings.

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Joomla 3.9.18 is now available. This is a bugfix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses one bug.

Joomla 3.9.17 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses three security vulnerabilities and contains over 40 bug fixes and improvements.

Joomla, one of the world’s most popular Content Management Systems (CMS), announced today its partnership with Report URI, the Application Security and Health Monitoring leader.

Joomla 3.9.16 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses six security vulnerabilities and contains over 20 bug fixes and improvements.

Joomla 3.9.15 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses three low security vulnerabilities and contains over 20 bug fixes and improvements.

Joomla 3.9.14 is now available. This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses two security vulnerabilities and contains over 35 bug fixes and improvements.

Joomla 3.9.13 is now available. This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses two security vulnerabilities and contains over 15 bug fixes and improvements.

Mobbex payment plugin for VirtueMart 3 This plugin integrates Mobbex payment gateway with VirtueMart 3. This plugin, automatically integrates to your VirtueMart store in a way that the store administrator simply installs the plugin and after several simple configuration steps, gets a full fledged payment gateway. With Mobbex in your store, you can provide lots of payments methods to your customers. This plugin automatically converts currencies for stores that need different currencies for their products. Take a look at our currency plugins, click here Install Instructions: Make shure you have latest VirtueMart version, tested with VM 3.6.3 - Check latest version, click here Install it using joomla installer Publish plugin in joomla plugin manager Create and configure payment method in VirtueMart (Components->VirtueMart->Payment Methods->New) Set Payment Name as you like Set Published to Yes Set Payment Method to VMPayment - Mobbex Payment Plugin Click Apply Click Configuration tab Set configuration as you like Get API Key and Access Token from Mobbex following this guide: Log into Mobbex console: https://mobbex.com/console Create a new App by clicking here: https://mobbex.com/console/app/developer/user Click the plus button +, then in the app creation popup, give it a name and a description. It can be anything meaningful to you. In URL field, paste the home URL of your store Click the newly created app from the app list Write down the API Key by clicking the API-KEY button Click the SOLICITAR ACCESO button In the Buscar Entidad popup write the CUIT you want to use with your store, then click buscar Click the name corresponding to that CUIT Write down the Access Token by clicking the VER TOKEN DE ACCESO button Grant access to the new app by going to the Mobbex console https://mobbex.com/console/ and clicking the AUTORIZAR button of the newly created App More info here https://mobbex.dev/docs/getting-started Sandbox Instructions: Mobbex use different credit cards for testing purposes, depending of the credit card number you use for purchase, the order will be confirmed or cancelled. For a list of available test cards, please visit https://mobbex.dev/docs/testcards

Set the minimum number of items that a client can order per product of specific categories. Suitable for e-shops that do not wish to sell low number of quantities per product due to low cost - profit. Documentation After installing the plugin in the text area you add a single line per category that you wish to set the limits.. For example: 10:100 5:200 With the above configuration the products of category 10 shall have a minimum order of 100 and those of category 5, 200. We offer it for free..

Plugin switches VirtueMart currencies accordingly to selected language.

Using this simple plugin you may allow your site admins to be redirected on a specific component on backend login. Documentation: In the field Redirect Component place the name of the component, as it appears in the backend url without the το com_ part. For example, instead of com_virtuemart write virtuemart. In the field Redirect Usergroups: choose the group you wish to be redirected on backend login.

Stop Bad Bots, SPAM bots, Crawlers, and spiders. Table with more than 4.600 bad bots included. Bad bots consume bandwidth, put SPAM in your comments and contact form, slow down, and overload your server and can hack your server, steal your content, and look for vulnerability to compromise your server. Stop Bad Bots is completely self-contained and does not need to connect to any outside API or service. No DNS, API, or Cloud Traffic Redirection. No Slow Down Your Site! You can manage (include new bots or deactivate bots) it from your Joomla site panel. No .htaccess neither robots.txt required. This tool doesn't block Google Bot either Microsoft (Live) bots.

Sj Listing Tabs for JoomShopping is a modern and functional Joomla extension for JoomShopping component. This JoomShopping extension will show JoomShopping products as tabs. You can choose whether to display products according to Category tabs or Field Product tabs. Sj Listing Tabs for JoomShopping supports 2 layouts: Load more and Slider. Besides, this Joomla extension allows to preload all products or preload any category. You are free to order products by hits, top rating, ID, title... as well as show/off the products fields: Title, Description, Price, Add to Cart, Hits, Wishlist... The tabs Joomla module comes with over 10 load more effects; Auto play, Touch drag, Mouse drag, Pause on hover... for slider. Your JoomShopping product listing will appear professionally and impressively. # Main Features Support Responsive layout Fully compatible with IE9+, Firefox 2+, Safari, Opera 9.5, Chrome. Support Multi-Language Allow to show/hide the module title Support Multi-Module in the same page Allow to set the column number for each screen resolution Support opening link in: Parent Window, New Window, Popup Allow to list product according to Categories or Field Product Allow to select preload category Allow to order by: Hits, Top rating, Title, ID, Created date, Modified date Support to get category icon from Image Params, Extend Folder Support lots of modes for resizing category icon, image: Center, Fill, Fit, Stretch Allow to change width/height, background color of category icon Allow to show/hide Title, Description, Price, Hits, Rating... Easy to change the number of title/description characters of product Support to get image from various sources Support lots of effect Allow to set Duration and Delay time Support Touch Drag & Mouse Drag Support pre- and post- text with each instance

Quick Fields is a free Joomla module that shows custom fields and lets users edit their profiles on spot! Have you ever needed to have users fill in some details, but need to do that from wherever you want in Joomla? That is exactly what Quick Fields does! It is a smart module that lets you select which custom fields you would like to show in a page, for users to save that information on the spot! Quick Fields offers a unique functionality, and is built with completely native Joomla code. It enables you to show any custom fields you may create in Users > Fields or in EasyProfile, so that your users can input their values from whatever page you want! It does not require external library, which means that it is compatible to any website, without producing Javascript errors, or incompatibilities. It is a great addition for any website that requires users to input their information! After all it's free! We all love free stuff, right?

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.6. This is a security release which also contains several bug fixes.All PHP 7.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.4.6 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.31. This is a security release.All PHP 7.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.2.31 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.3.18 This is a security release which also contains several bug fixes.All PHP 7.3 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.3.18 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.30. This is a security release.All PHP 7.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.2.30 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.3.17 This is a security release which also contains several bug fixes.All PHP 7.3 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.3.17 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.5. This is a security release which also contains several bug fixes.All PHP 7.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.4.5 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.4.4. This is a bug fix release.All PHP 7.4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.For source downloads of PHP 7.4.4 please visit our downloads page Windows binaries can be found on the PHP for Windows site. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

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In the May 2020 survey we received responses from 1,238,024,212 sites across 261,192,350 unique domains and 9,892,834 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 224,000 computers and 1.10 million domains, but a loss of 8.10 million sites. nginx lost the greatest number of sites, with 14.2 million fewer than in April, but conversely had by far the greatest increases in unique domain names (+1.50 million, +2.02%), and web-facing computers (+137,000, +4.43%) this month. OpenResty, which is based on nginx, also saw a large 237,000 domain count increase to reach 7.15 million – the second largest increase in domains for any vendor this month. Apache had losses in most metrics, dropping 244,000 domains. It did, however, come away with 6.88 million more sites and 45,000 more computers this month than last. Apache still leads in the active sites, computers, and top one million sites metrics. Microsoft lost out on all metrics this month, dropping by 5.08 million sites and 175,000 unique domains. Both Apache and Microsoft have been on slow long-term downward trends in most metrics. Although they have both increased their count of web-facing computers over time, nginx has seen much stronger growth in comparison. Despite running on a 17.9% share of domain names and 16.4% share of computers, Microsoft holds a much smaller 4.72% share of active sites. LiteSpeed currently serves 4.20 million domains, giving it a 1.61% market share. It has a slightly higher 1.88% share amongst the top one million sites. LiteSpeed has seen consistent growth, and has had a 23.3% domain count growth over the last 12 months. Vendor News Nginx released a new stable version of the nginx web server. nginx version 1.18.0 incorporates additional features which have been introduced in the mainline 1.17.x nginx versions over time. Nginx also released version 1.17.0 of the Nginx Unit application server. LiteSpeed released new 1.6.13 and 1.7.1 versions of their OpenLiteSpeed web server, introducing bug fixes, security features, updates from their LSQUIC library, CentOS 8 support, and more. DeveloperApril 2020PercentMay 2020PercentChange nginx459,886,78836.91%445,724,55036.00%-0.90 Apache308,143,70824.73%315,019,26225.45%0.72 Microsoft160,121,86512.85%155,042,31112.52%-0.33 Google42,648,7483.42%44,304,8673.58%0.16

Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS Connect Firstbyte Total 1 GoDaddy.com Inc Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.378 0.008 0.033 0.035 2 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.000 0.519 0.054 0.109 0.109 3 Webair Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.286 0.071 0.142 0.143 4 Swishmail FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.000 0.207 0.083 0.165 0.165 5 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.322 0.098 0.195 0.195 6 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.144 0.077 0.154 0.154 7 EveryCity SmartOS 0:00:00 0.005 0.208 0.079 0.157 0.157 8 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.286 0.080 0.162 0.162 9 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.234 0.084 0.167 0.168 10 krystal.uk Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.314 0.095 0.189 0.189 See full table GoDaddy had the most reliable hosting company site in April 2020. This is the second consecutive month that GoDaddy has had the most reliable hosting company site and GoDaddy has not appeared outside the top two so far in 2020. GoDaddy provides tools that help businesses create a web presence and has provided ideas for small businesses to cope through the COVID-19 pandemic. All of the monitored hosting providers are continuing to provide their services despite the challenges introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The next four hosting company sites in the top 10 also responded to all of Netcraft's requests in April: New York Internet, Webair, Swishmail, and Pair Networks. The top five hosting company sites were separated by average connection time. New York Internet has published a COVID-19 Preparedness Plan to demonstrate how it is helping provide services to its customers throughout these uncertain times. In New York, Webair has donated meals and personal protective equipment to frontline workers.

Netcraft has today received a Double Queen’s Award for Enterprise. A Queen’s Award is the highest UK Government award for a British business. It is awarded on the Queen’s Birthday each year, and, in different times, it would include an invitation to a mass gathering at Buckingham Palace. The criteria set by our Government searches for considerable progress sustained over a six year period. This year, 128 companies received a Queen’s Award for International Trade and 66 companies a Queen’s Award for Innovation. Netcraft is one of three companies to receive a Queen’s Award in both categories. The full list of winners is listed in the Queen’s Awards Press Book .

Governments and organisations globally have been making announcements that just a few weeks prior would have been unprecedented. As more of our lives are moving online in an attempt to adapt to changes brought about by the Coronavirus pandemic, many are trying out services they were previously unfamiliar with, such as video conferencing or online grocery shopping. While others are finding themselves with more time to pursue online hobbies such as gaming. The combined effect of information overload and a mass of people using unfamiliar software and services has created an environment ripe for exploitation by cybercriminals. Netcraft has tracked Coronavirus-themed cybercrime since 16th March, shortly after it was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation. While Netcraft continues to see high volumes of Coronavirus-inspired fake shops, advance fee fraud, phishing and malware lures, this post covers some of the trends Netcraft has observed since our previous posts on the topic. Recently observed Coronavirus-themed threats Fake Government information sites and mobile malware Many governments have set up dedicated websites offering advice and services to support their citizens through the pandemic. Cybercriminals are taking advantage of this by providing copy-cat sites with a malicious twist. In one recent campaign, the cybercriminals deployed a site that poses as the UK Government and offers “credit card refunds” for “COVID-19 support”. The fraudulent site uses UK Government branding and collects the victim’s personal information – including their credit card number, date of birth and telephone number.

Netcraft has added protection from Coronavirus-related cybercrime to its mobile apps for Android and iOS, and to its browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Microsoft Edge. Websites containing these attacks will be blocked for those who have the app or extension installed. The iOS app — currently available in the UK and Canada — blocks Coronavirus-themed attacks impersonating Canadian and UK businesses as well as providing global coverage of fake shops purporting to sell Coronavirus-related goods. Any Coronavirus-related cybercrime can easily be reported through the extension or app, by emailing scam@netcraft.com, or at report.netcraft.com, protecting other users from these attacks. The Netcraft Browser Extension now blocks Coronavirus-related cybercrime Since 16 March Netcraft has been monitoring and disrupting Coronavirus-themed cybercrime, which accounts for five percent of the attacks we perform countermeasures against and is becoming more prevalent on the internet. The Netcraft App can be downloaded from any of the major three major app stores: The Netcraft Extension can be downloaded for any of the four major browsers:

In the April 2020 survey we received responses from 1,246,121,153 sites across 260,089,947 unique domains and 9,669,267 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 10,000 computers and 2.90 million domains, but a loss of 16.9 million sites. nginx and Microsoft lost the most sites this month — 13.4 million and 10.4 million each — but like all other major vendors, they both gained domains. Since attaining the largest share of domains last month, nginx has extended its lead with net growth of 1.84 million domains and now has a 28.5% share of this market, compared with Apache's 27.8%. Although Apache gained the largest number of sites this month — more than 2 million — it lost 598,000 active sites and its presence amongst the top million websites decreased by 4,230 sites, which took its top-sites count down by 1.43%. Nonetheless, Apache still has the largest share of the top million sites for now (29.1% compared with nginx's 25.5%), and also continues to lead in terms of active sites and web-facing computers. Vendors respond to COVID-19 As the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect many people's lives in an unprecedented fashion, some web server vendors have offered to help in a variety of direct and indirect ways. Microsoft has made an initial $1 billion donation to Puget Sound's COVID-19 Response Fund; published a map that tracks active, recovered and fatal cases; and has offered its Healthcare Bot service powered by Microsoft Azure to help frontline organisations screen patients for potential infection and care. NGINX and F5 are offering free resources for websites impacted by the crisis. This includes free access to its core training for NGINX Open Source; providing additional help and one free year of NGINX Plus to the education, public government and non-profit sectors; and encouraging its employees to respond to NGINX related matters on Stack Overflow and Twitter. Google has made its COVID-19 datasets free to access and query. Researchers can also use Google's BigQuery ML language to create and execute machine learning models for free. Google's COVID-19 public dataset program is to remain in effect until 15 September. Google has already had a number of measures in place to ensure that its systems stay up and running during the coronavirus crisis. For more than ten years it has carried out regular disaster recovery testing to identify and address potential problems before they happen, and its engineers operate from multiple locations. With some businesses experiencing increased online sales while consumers stay at home, Google has also activated its enhanced support structure which was developed for peak demand situations like Black Friday. Last month, Google announced availability of Game Servers beta, which is a managed service offering the Kubernetes-based, open source Agones game server hosting project cofounded by Google and Ubisoft. Agones automatically scales Kubernetes to meet unpredictable player demand, and so its launch is conveniently timed to help cope with the increased amount of online multiplayer gaming taking place while many people are either self-isolating or on lockdown during the global coronavirus crisis. Online gaming is helping some companies to weather the pandemic, such as Chinese technology group Tencent, which expects revenues from its games business to hold up better than that of its main rival, Alibaba, whose Taobao Tengine web server currently powers 13.7 million websites. Alibaba's co-founder, Jack Ma, has donated coronavirus test kits and masks to Europe and the US despite the effect the pandemic has had on its Tmall and Taobao retail businesses. Cloudflare has made its Cloudflare for Teams service free for small businesses during the outbreak, helping employees to work from home securely and effectively. Finally, Netcraft has been protecting consumers and businesses from the despicable — yet inevitable — influx of coronavirus-themed cybercrime, which has recently scaled up a notch. The types of fraudulent activity that are purposely exploiting the pandemic include tax refund scams and other phishing attacks that have been modified to make use of coronavirus-themed emails, as well as smishing, password-stealing malware, advance fee scams, and masses of fake online stores purportedly selling COVID-19 vaccines, cures and related protective equipment. DeveloperMarch 2020PercentApril 2020PercentChange nginx473,308,95537.47%459,886,78836.91%-0.57 Apache306,114,67324.24%308,143,70824.73%0.49 Microsoft170,567,38613.50%160,121,86512.85%-0.66 Google41,227,9593.26%42,648,7483.42%0.16

Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS Connect Firstbyte Total 1 GoDaddy.com Inc Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.412 0.009 0.034 0.035 2 EveryCity SmartOS 0:00:00 0.000 0.233 0.076 0.152 0.152 3 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.338 0.079 0.160 0.161 4 krystal.uk Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.341 0.091 0.181 0.181 5 www.dinahosting.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.307 0.098 0.196 0.196 6 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.353 0.098 0.197 0.197 7 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.477 0.009 0.020 0.020 8 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.254 0.076 0.153 0.153 9 Swishmail FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.005 0.239 0.082 0.164 0.164 10 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.273 0.084 0.169 0.169 See full table In March 2020 GoDaddy had the most reliable hosting company site, with no failed requests and an average connection time of 9ms. GoDaddy has now topped the table for two out of the three months of 2020 so far. GoDaddy provides services that allow customers to build their own web presence, which include hosting solutions, domain registration, and a popular website builder focused on ease of use.

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