Quite an important choice. iPhone users can choose to hit the update button and go down the iOS 15 route, or play it safe and stick with iOS 14. Given that Apple has seen strong, you could say passionate, adoption figures for new releases of iOS over the years, I expect that a good bulk of iDevice users will make the leap to iOS 15. People are drawn to new iOS and iPadOS releases....
However, that deal is currently sitting in arbitration in Singapore and has never been activated. Consequently, the satellite connectivity provider has yet to supply the nation after a volcano erupted on Saturday and cut the Tonga subsea cable system in two places. “Kacific is willing and able to restore connectivity since a valid and signed agreement exists to that effect between the Government of Tonga and Kacific.” Kacific CEO Christian Patouraux said in a statement issued on Monday....
“Our 2020 monitoring report includes the first COVID-19 lockdown period and it shows that changes in the way Kiwis worked, learned, and played led to significant growth in fixed broadband usage,” said Telecommunications commissioner Tristan Gilbertson. Mobile data usage also increased by 22% year-on-year to 3.3GB per month during that same period. The data usage trends were released by New Zealand’s Commerce Commission (ComCom) as part of its annual telecommunications monitoring report [PDF], which also unveiled total industry and connection metrics....
To help us better understand what leadership traits are necessary to guide us during these disruptive times of uncertainty, Ray Wang, CEO and founder of a Silicon Valley-based advisory firm Constellation Research, and I invited the former Prime Minister of Australia and former Mayor of Sydney to join our weekly show DisrupTV. The Honorable Malcolm Turnbull was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia. Prior to entering politics, he enjoyed successful careers as a lawyer, investment banker, and journalist....
A lifetime subscription to the incredibly popular, top-rated Babbel Language Learning app supplies a springboard toward confident global exploration. Thanks to early Black Friday pricing, you can now gain full access for an increasingly remarkable value, with a current discount dropping the cost from $499 to only $179. Build your abilities by using this powerful tool anytime you want, and save more than $300 on that experience. Enjoy unlimited learning for 14 languages with 10,000 hours of high-quality online education....
LogMeIn has a somewhat complicated history, but the company has benefited from the hybrid work trend that has made collaboration tools, as well as IT support tools, more important than ever. Last month, then-LogMeIn CEO Bill Wagner said the company’s strategic priority is “to strengthen and invest in our flexible work enablement portfolio” across its two lines of business. To that end, the revamped product portfolio revolves around two flagship products: a new IT management and support product, called GoTo Resolve, and an updated version of GoTo Connect, the company’s unified-communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) product....
Look to the growing emphasis on customer experience (CX) among technology staffs, which has moved their priorities from the care and feeding of back-end systems to the care and feeding of actual customers. Not every organization is quite there yet, and many tech professionals still feel cut off from the final delivery of products and services to consumers. Nevertheless, the world of tech is changing, requiring new mindsets and ways of working – including greater collaboration and greater empathy....
“How can we incentivise mobility across the industry and the university sector … because at the moment, the university sector is very unfriendly to anyone who has an industry CV and who doesn’t have a track record of a million publications,” said Fox, speaking on a panel during the virtual Collaborate Innovate 2021 event on Tuesday. “We need to change the system so that we can embrace those people back into the university sector, and CSIRO is already starting to do that....
Low and no code platforms make it possible “to deploy artificial intelligence without hiring an army of expensive developers and data scientists.,” states Jonathon Reilly, writing in Harvard Business Review. “Removing friction from adoption will help unleash the power of AI across all industries and allow non-specialists to literally predict the future. In time, no-code AI platforms will be as ubiquitous as word-processing or spreadsheet software is today,” Reilly advises looking for platforms that make such development as easy as possible – a simple interface that integrates with popular enterprise applications; that data is automatically classified; automates model selection and training; and monitors model performance....
Named OSAMiner, the malware has been distributed in the wild since at least 2015 disguised in pirated (cracked) games and software such as League of Legends and Microsoft Office for Mac, security firm SentinelOne said in a report published this week. “OSAMiner has been active for a long time and has evolved in recent months,” a SentinelOne spokesperson told ZDNet in an email interview on Monday. Also: Best VPNs • Best security keys “From what data we have it appears to be mostly targeted at Chineses/Asia-Pacific communities,” the spokesperson added....
The report, “State of PKI Automation 2021,” explores how organizations are handling the challenge of PKI certificate management. Expired certificates are a problem because they disable encryption and create an attack surface for hackers. DigiCert commissioned ReRez Research to survey IT leaders from 400 global organizations of 1,000 employees or more. The survey focused on specialists managing digital certificates for users, servers, and mobile devices. The report revealed that today’s organizations manage more than 50,000 certificates, a steep upsurge from previous years....
“The weaponisation of people’s private information in an effort to extort payment is malicious and an attack on the most vulnerable members of our community,” Medibank CEO David Koczkar said in a statement Thursday. “The release of this stolen data on the dark web is disgraceful.” The company urged the public against downloading the data, which hackers last week had threatened to begin releasing on the forum. Reports have pegged ransom demands upwards of $10 million, or $1 for each compromised customer account....
Merlin is also announcing $25 million in funding from GV (formerly Google Ventures). This places Merlin into a small but active pack of companies scrambling to bring autonomy to aviation. “We’re proud to partner with Dynamic to begin the process of moving autonomy from the lab and to the market,” said Matthew George, Merlin co-founder and CEO. “This deal represents a major commercial milestone as well as Merlin’s commitment to supporting larger and more complex aircraft....
Microsoft threat researchers have observed a change in tactics used by card-skimming malware. Over the past decade, card skimming has been dominated by so-called Magecart malware that relies on JavaScript code to inject scripts into checkout pages and deliver malware that captures and steals payment card details. Injecting JavaScript into front-end processes was “very conspicuous”, Microsoft notes, because it might have triggered browser protections like Content Security Policy (CSP) that stop external scripts from loading....
Internet Explorer (E) 11 is on its way out with Microsoft ending support for it in key apps like Teams and Office last year. However, IE 11 still remains a component of Windows 10 until June 15, 2022, after which support will be dropped in some versions of Windows 10. IE mode within Edge can be used to ensure backwards compatibility with legacy business apps and internal sites. IE mode in Microsoft Edge is supported through at least 2029 to give web developers eight years to modernize legacy apps and eventually remove the need for IE mode, Microsoft said last year....
AT&T and Microsoft are working together on Azure Operator Distributed Services, with initial testing stages planned for later this year, Microsoft officials said. As part of today’s announcements, Microsoft said a private preview of the Azure Operator 5G Core, which deploys on the Azure Operator Distributed Services platform, is now available. Microsoft is also making a public preview of the Azure Private 5G Core, a 5G packet-core-as-a-service for the aforementioned Azure private MEC solution....
Many, though, simply aren’t equipped to deal with the mistakes that technology induces them to make. A fear surely shared by almost everyone is the absent-minded, wrong-headed response to an email. How are you supposed to say you didn’t mean it? How are you supposed to fix what you’ve done? I’m indebted – as I hope you will be – to Microsoft for airing these questions and inciting the world’s ingenuity in reply....
Also: How to create the perfect Windows 11 virtual machine Build 22000.282 fixes an L3 caching issue that could affect the performance of devices with AMD Ryzen processors running the RTM release of Windows 11, the Microsoft release notes say. The new build doesn’t address the preferred core part of the problem, however. The Microsoft release notes also say this build fixes an issue resulting in some people not seeing the new centered taskbar design in the RTM release of Windows 11....
Also: Microsoft just added this ’top requested feature’ to Windows 11 January 31 will be the last day Microsoft sells the Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Home downloads, filling in one more piece of the puzzle in the plan to wind down what still remains the most widely used version of Windows. The move was announced on the Windows 10 home page where Windows 10 Home is available for $139 and Windows 10 Pro for $199....
NCC Group researchers have so far seen five instances in their client base of active exploitation of Log4Shell in MobileIron, noting that the “global scale of the exposure appears significant.” In a blog post updated on Wednesday, the company shared a screenshot of a Shodan search showing 4,642 instances around the world. NCC Group Global CTO Ollie Whitehouse told ZDNet that Shodan isn’t real-time but that there has been a small drop in total systems since yesterday....
