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The company’s CEO, CC Wei, provided the chip supply update during the company’s second-quarter results presentation, where he added that output for micro-controlling units should be close to 60% higher than 2020 levels and 30% higher than the 2018 pre-pandemic levels, respectively, by the end of the year. “By taking such actions, we expect the shortage to be greatly reduced for TSMC customers starting this quarter,” Wei told investors. Two months ago, the company announced plans to spend $100 billion over three years to boost capacity....

On Tuesday, Cisco Talos said that the advanced persistent threat (APT) group, Russian in origin, has developed a new backdoor for persistence and stealth. Dubbed TinyTurla, the previously unknown backdoor is simple in design but suitable for particular purposes: dropping payloads and staying under the radar if Turla’s primary malware is wiped from a compromised machine. Active since at least 2004, Turla, also known as Snake and Uroburos, is a sophisticated operation with a long list of high-profile victims in its portfolio....

Now, Twitter has announced that the notes created by members of its Birdwatch pilot program will be visible to additional users across the US. The notes will appear “directly on some tweets,” where these new participants will be able to rate those notes and provide feedback on their efficacy to the Birdwatch program. The actual group writing these notes will not be expanded, however. For a note to appear to users within the expanded program, it must first be rated as “helpful” by “enough Birdwatch contributors from different perspectives....

Real-time processing is when a program or operating system is fast enough that it can guarantee a reaction to data within a tight, real-world deadline. Typically, real-time computing delivers results from microseconds (one millionth of a second) to milliseconds (one thousandth of a second). Real-time applications that take things down to microsecond latency are stock market’s high-frequency trading (HFT) applications. The much more common millisecond real-time processing is used in banking and telecom applications, digital ad networks, and self-driving cars....

On Tuesday, Digital and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries ordered the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to undertake the investigation in response to findings that the deal could create “real problems” to competition. Those findings were made as part of an initial investigation conducted by the CMA, which concluded there was a possibility the deal would result in a substantial lessening of competition across the data centres, IoT, automotive sector, and gaming applications markets....

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been accompanied by cyberattacks targeting the country’s services and infrastructure, including DDoS attacks and destructive wiper malware campaigns – leading to the Ukrainian government calling for volunteers to aid with cybersecurity. But it has also asked for support in conducting offensive cyber operations back at Russia. “We are creating an IT army,” Mykhailo Fedorov, vice prime minister of Ukraine said in a tweet at the weekend....

According to the DoJ, RSOCKS was operating as a proxy service, but instead of offering customers IP addresses legitimately leased from internet service providers (ISPs), the firm was offering IP addresses that had been assigned to hacked devices. The DoJ said that together with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK it has “dismantled” the infrastructure of RSOCKS, “which hacked millions of computers and other electronic devices around the world”....

UWB makes use of super-fast signal pulses (anything up to over a billion a second) broadcast across a wide swathe of the radio spectrum (from 500MHz to several gigahertz). This allows it to avoid the interference issues that plague other technologies, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Also: How to track an AirTag Up until recently, UWB has been limited to mostly military and medical applications. But that’s changing. While there was a point when it looked like UWB could replace Wi-Fi (that didn’t happen), and that Apple might be planning to use it to replace Bluetooth for communicating with AirPods, the feature of UWB that’s made it mainstream is precision finding....

The updates should help IT teams that have to manage virtual desktops and apps while remote work policies remain in flux. According to VMware, over a six-week period in early 2020, when companies quickly shifted to remote work, the total number of cloud-deployed Horizon desktops grew by 82%. First, VMware is expanding multiple Horizon Control Plane services to additional cloud providers, including the following: Universal Brokering is now available for VMware Horizon on Azure VMware Solution (AVS) environments....

In this Q&A, Meerah Rajavel, chief information officer for Citrix at the time of this interview (now CIO for Palo Alto Networks), shares her observations on what it takes to keep up with everything and flourish in this industry. To be and remain relevant, technical professionals need to focus on three areas: cloud, security and programming and scripting languages. Certification with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, and GCP are extremely relevant and in-demand today, and as hybrid work has become the new norm, certifications in digital workspace companies are also critically important, along with security-focused credentials like CISM, CCISP, and CISA....

Most noticeable, you wouldn’t get access to the 5G Ultra-Wideband. As a result of which, you will only be able to stream videos in SD quality. However, a few users were able to enjoy full HD even in this base plan. Verizon soon realized this mistake, made some backend changes, and then rectified it. After that, it sent a message to all those users who were on a base plan....

In a statement, ProtonMail CEO and founder Andy Yen said the addition of Berners-Lee to the company’s advisory board was aligned with its goal to “create an internet where people are in control of their information at all times”. “Our vision is to build an internet where privacy is the default by creating an ecosystem of services accessible to everyone, everywhere, every day,” Yen said. Yen said the company already had a past relationship with Berners-Lee, explaining that the idea of ProtonMail was initially conceived at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, where the World Wide Web was created....

The benchmark has 15 areas of focus, and includes five carried over from the Compat 2021 efforts. For mobile developers, most exciting among the areas will be the addition of new viewport height and width units to determine the largest, smallest, and dynamic size of a dimension while scrolling – this is needed as mobile browsers hide the address bar when scrolling. Other areas of focus will be cascade layers, getting container queries to know a container’s dimensions to apply styles to work properly, dialog element, fixes to forms, subgrid, a group described as web compat issues....

Developers and IT teams are under a lot of pressure to build AI capabilities into their company’s touchpoints and decision-making systems. At the same time, there is a growing outcry that the AI being delivered is loaded with bias and built-in violations of privacy rights. In other words, it’s fertile lawsuit territory. There may be some very compelling tools and platforms that promise fair and balanced AI, but tools and platforms alone won’t deliver ethical AI solutions, says Reid Blackman, who provides avenues to overcome thorny AI ethics issues in his upcoming book, Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent and Respectful AI (Harvard Business Review Press)....

Here, you’ll find the information you need when considering an accounting MBA. We cover what the degree is, who should apply, costs and learning formats, skills learned, and what to look for in an accounting MBA program. We also discuss return on investment and potential flexibility of different on-campus and online options. Electives in an accounting MBA program Accounting MBA curricula include core MBA courses like business ethics, finance, managerial communication, organizational leadership, and marketing....

When it comes to shopping for a credit card, you’ll want to investigate several different features based on your needs. But one factor you must absolutely consider is the card’s annual percentage rate (APR). This figure – expressed as a percentage – varies greatly between issuers, and it can determine whether your use of a credit card makes financial sense. If you make a big purchase with a card that has a higher APR, you could end up paying a significant amount of interest on the purchase....

Web browser developers know this, so lately there’s been a lot of effort behind making them ever faster. So, who’s the fastest now? I put the most popular Windows 10 browsers to the test. Here are our contenders in order of popularity. First comes Google Chrome 93. It’s easily the most popular web browser. Next up is Microsoft Edge 93, which recently switched to using Google’s open-source Chromium web browser....

Numerous users have voiced their concern that the WhatsApp incoming call vibration is not working according to the rules that they have set up. In this regard, some users have completely disabled vibration across their devices but even then WhatsApp isn’t respecting this setting and is still vibrating for every call. if you are also facing a similar issue, then this guide will help you out. Follow along for the fix....

The Whoop 4.0 is focused on sleep tracking and heart rate tracking with measures for sleep, strain, and recovery that inform you of your readiness for the next day. It does not have a display, but lasts about a week between charges and can be worn seamlessly in several areas on your body. There are significant differences between the two devices, but with a recent update to enable Apple Health integration the two can work together for an optimal experience for iPhone owners....

This is quite a common problem, and one that’s been plaguing drone operators for a long time. The screen on the iPhone will dim quite dramatically, to the point of making it almost impossible to read. And to make matters worse, you can’t turn the brightness up. On top of that, there will be a lag and the iPhone will appear to struggle to work as normal. So, what’s going on here?...