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For the past several days, the new Nomad Base One Max has been charging up my iPhone 13 Pro Max and Apple Watch in style. A couple of months ago, Nomad launched the beautiful Base One charger and built upon that charger with the Base One Max, adding an integrated Apple Watch charger in addition to the floating glass panel for your iPhone. The Base One Max is available in silver and carbide colors with an MSRP of $149....

One of my favorite Nomad accessories right now is the recently launched leather AirTag Loop. At $24.95 before the discount, the leather loop adds a stylish way to carry your AirTag. Plus, it’s a worthy alternative to Apple’s official AirTag cases. You can even change the battery, when that time comes, without removing the AirTag from the loop. Other Nomad products I recommend include charging cables, which have a braided Kevlar on the outside of them to ensure they don’t easily break....

You can run a cryptocurrency exchange and make a profit from every transaction. You can even invent your own cryptocurrency and make money when your idea eventually grows big enough to make a profit. What have I left out? Ah, yes. The risks and the costs. You can buy cryptocurrency, but you’ll only make a profit if the currency’s value goes up – and goes up enough to exceed the fees involved in buying and selling....

The system was widely used to share and store files by organisations around the world, including NSW Health, the government entity said on Friday afternoon. “Following the NSW government’s advice earlier this year around a world-wide cyber attack that included NSW government agencies, NSW Health is notifying people whose data may have been accessed in the global Accellion cyber attack,” it said in a statement. The state entity said medical records in public hospitals were not affected and the software involved is no longer in use by NSW Health....

Arm has a variety of customer types. Some, like Apple, Qualcomm, and Nvidia itself, use only Arm’s instructions sets, rules, and documentation to design their own processors so that their cores will run software written for Arm. Apple has its designs fabricated by manufacturing specialists such as TSMC and Samsung and puts those processors in its own products. Qualcomm has various fabricators that make chips for system vendors to use....

The firm’s data scientists say in a new report that 34% of devices currently being used aren’t capable of running Windows 11 because of Microsoft’s mildly controversial minimum hardware requirements. “While the benefits of Windows 11 are clear, some of the device requirements will make a transition challenging. More than a third of devices currently in use today are not capable of running Windows 11,” it said. SEE: Windows 11: Latest updates bring a wave of new features However, they also found that only 12% of existing devices will need to be replaced if CIOs want them on Windows 11 while 22% of devices can be upgraded to meet the requirements....

This mountain of waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE) is only set to get bigger. According to a new report published by the international organization, the WEEE Forum, e-waste is on course to increase by up to 4% every year to reach 74 million tonnes by 2030. One of the main reasons for the explosion of global e-waste generation is the high consumption rates of electronics, which the WEEE Forum says is increasing by 3% annually....

“Australia is almost unique in not having a formal merger approval system,” Sims said in his address to the National Press Club on Wednesday. “We have no formal approval system for mergers in Australia. If it gets to court, we have to prove that future negative consequences will occur, which can only be speculated on against the so-called real-world evidence of the necessarily self-interested merger parties about what will happen in the future....

During the company’s sustainability management briefing, president and group CEO Yuki Kusumi told investors that introducing a four-day work week will mean the company can “flexibly accommodate diverse situations of our employees”. “We must support the wellbeing of each employee at Panasonic to enhance our competitiveness … Panasonic has approximately 240,000 employees globally with diverse personalities and capabilities. Our responsibility is to strike an ideal balance between the work style and lifestyle for our diverse human capital,” she said....

Denise Lopez-Gill, the mother of a 16-year-old in the Chicago area, has been sending her son on field trips with cash for years. After a recent school-sponsored field trip to the United Center, she found out her son had trouble buying lunch. “He couldn’t order food for himself and he had to ask someone to pay for it because the places only accepted debit cards,” she told ZDNet via Facebook Messenger....

At the end of last year, Canalys, Gartner, and IDC data indicated that PC shipments fell significantly, showcasing how economic uncertainty affected the market’s stability. Last year, PC and tablet shipments were 434.5 million units, down 13% from 2021’s almost half a billion shipments. Despite a slowdown in demand for laptops and monitors, tablets continued to experience a slight but steady increase in shipments in the fourth quarter. In Q4 of 2022, tablet shipments grew by 1%, with an annual total of 42....

On top of that, private 5G allows organizations to control and customize their security settings, policies, and other aspects of wireless communications. A new study recently published by Economist Impact in partnership with NTT surveyed organizations around the world and uncovered that more than half of them plan to deploy a private 5G network within the next six to 24 months. The survey included 216 C-level and senior IT decision-makers from organizations with a revenue of $250 mil....

According to Kaspersky, a wave of “highly targeted attacks” on several organizations was traced that utilized a chain of zero-day exploits in the Google Chrome browser and Microsoft Windows systems over April 14 and 15, 2021. The attackers have been named PuzzleMaker. The first exploit in the chain, while not confirmed, appears to be CVE-2021-21224, a V8 type confusion vulnerability in the Google Chrome browser prior to 90.0.4430.85. Google issued a patch for the severe flaw on April 20, which if exploited, allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page....

By using virtual machines as part of the process, ransomware attackers are able to conduct their activity with additional subtlety, because running the payload within a virtual environment reduces the chances of the activity being discovered – until it’s too late and the ransomware has encrypted files on the host machine. During a recent investigation into an attempted ransomware attack, cybersecurity researchers at Symantec found the ransomware operations had been using VirtualBox – a legitimate form of open-source virtual machine software – to run instances of Windows 7 to aid the installation of ransomware....

So what happens when a gaming peripheral maker actually ventures into the work and office space? The Razer brand is synonymous with its edgy and flamboyant gaming hardware. Check out any best list involving gaming laptops, keyboards, and mice, and you’ll likely come across a selection or two from Razer ranking at the top. So when the Singapore-based company launched the Pro series, a new suite of peripherals tailored towards productivity and work, I was intrigued....

Why make a move at all? It’s not like RHEL 8.6 is going to fall apart on you. That’s true, but the latest RHEL does come with bigger, better security features. And, unless you’ve been hiding your head in the sand for the last few years, you know security attacks are happening more than ever. Also: Linux devices ‘increasingly’ targeted by hackers Specifically, Red Hat is implementing new built-in authentication and security features....

Also: Kindle Scribe vs ReMarkable 2 tablet: Digitize your notes The same can’t quite be said for its new keyboard functionality, launched on Tuesday with the new $199 Type Folio keyboard case for the ReMarkable 2. The hardware is as stunning and well-designed as you’d expect from ReMarkable, yet the software – which requires an upgrade to version 3.2 to support the new keyboard – is not quite as intuitive or polished yet....

Also: ADT is finally embracing DIY home security If you already love Ring, then the Ring Car Cam is a natural next step. The popularity of dash cams seems to be growing every day, possibly in part due to increasing road rage incidents around the US, and the new Ring Car Cam is a welcome sight for current and potential Ring users alike. The Car Cam is controlled by the Ring app, just like the rest of the Ring lineup of security cameras, and it’s a sleek, dual-facing camera that doesn’t interfere with the driver’s visuals....

Hiring platform Hired analysed more than 525,000 interview requests and 10,000 job offers between January 2019 and June 2021 and found the average US tech salary was $152,000 in 2021, a slight decrease of 1.1% compared to last year. It attributed this to increased pressure on hiring pipelines driven by the pandemic and the ensuing ‘Great Resignation’, which has seen employees quitting their jobs at record rates. This has led to heightened competition for software developers and other specialist tech workers, and “significantly shorter hiring cycles” as companies battle to meet demand: 30 days to hire in the U....

If we don’t have sense…I’m reminded of an interview circa 2010 with a Silicon Valley self-driving car proponent who envisioned pods small enough to drive into a building and right onto the elevator. I couldn’t imagine anything less healthy. Lots fewer cars is the future Canadian technology writer Paris Marx, author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation, imagines – Elon Musk is not going to save us!...