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There’s growing momentum behind an effort to make programming language Rust a second language to C for the Linux kernel. Google is backing a project led by developer Miguel Ojeda that would see Rust being used to write elements of the Linux kernel, which now underpins some of the most critical pieces of the internet’s infrastructure today. Google argues that Rust should help reduce memory errors that lead to security vulnerabilities, which make up the bulk of flaws that tech firms and open-source projects fix in each update....

PM9C1a is a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD integrated with a 5nm controller and the tech giant’s seventh-generation V-NAND. Samsung said the high-performance SSD is aimed at PCs and laptops for demanding computing and gaming applications. It has top sequential read and write speeds of 6,000MB/s and 5,600MB/s, respectively, which is 1.6 times and 1.8 times faster than its predecessor PM9B1, the South Korean tech giant said. According to Samsung, PM9C1a also has random read and write speeds of up to 900K IOPS and 1,000K IOPS, respectively....

Now that Samsung has finally taken the wraps off this juggernaut of a monitor, we can see that its specs have the muscle to back up all of the varied use cases Samsung expects it to excel at: While all of the above stats place this among the best gaming monitors on the market from a mathematical perspective, Samsung hopes that the display’s unique size and curvature will make it a unique entry in the space....

Last week, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data and privacy regulator, intervened after nine schools in North Ayrshire, Scotland, began scanning student faces to take payment for school lunches. At the time, more schools were expected to follow suit. The scheme was defended as a cashless, quick, and contactless means of payment in light of COVID-19. However, the ICO and privacy outfits were quick to note that in a time where law enforcement is roundly criticized for using the same technology on the streets, introducing it in schools may be unnecessary....

After leaving the Senate in 2017, Xenophon set up a law firm with former investigative journalist Mark Davis that was appointed as strategic counsel in 2019. The firm also represented Jordan Shanks in a recent high-profile defamation case. Xenophon last week said he was running for the Senate again in the upcoming federal election. On the basis of his return to public life, Patrick said in the Senate on Tuesday night that Xenophon should disclose the terms of his Huawei agreement....

Market dynamics, has clearly benefited from the accelerated pace of digital transformation that has corresponded with the pandemic. “There are structural challenges facing every industry in every geographic region,” CEO Bill McDermott said during a conference call Wednesday. He cited a handful of challenges in part brought on by the pandemic: “the great resignation, supply chain disruption, inflation, to name a few.” In the face of those challenges, he continued, “Digital technologies are a growth stimulating, deflationary force… The technology strategy has become the business strategy....

Cellebrite, an Israeli digital intelligence company, is best known for its controversial phone-cracking technology, which it previously claimed could download most data from almost any device on behalf of government agencies. During Senate Estimates in October, Greens Senator Janet Rice had asked Services Australia various questions about the agency’s decision to procure vendor services from Cellebrite, with a request to see a copy of the Cellebrite contract being among them....

Dubbed NCIS Chemotherapy Cost Calculator, the AI platform will help frontline healthcare professionals estimate out-of-pocket expenses patients have to set aside each month based on key factors, such as their prescribed cancer treatment, residency status, and eligibility for national subsidy schemes. Government subsidy programmes that have been integrated with the calculator include Ministry of Health’s cancer drug list, drug subsidy schemes on the Medication Assistance Fund and standard drugs list, as well as outpatient specialist subsidies....

The SG$19.5 million ($13.99 million) National Integrated Centre for Evaluation (NICE) will facilitate vulnerability assessment of software and hardware products, physical hardware attacks, and security measures, said Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), which jointly launched the facility on Wednesday. They noted that access to security evaluation facilities were difficult, due largely to high equipment cost and deep expertise typically required to carry out cybersecurity evaluation, at the highest assurance levels....

Starting January 31, all businesses not on the Singapore SMS Sender ID Registry (SSIR) will have their messages labelled as “Likely-SCAM”, according to industry regulator Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). Registering with the SSIR will enable organisations to use alphanumeric Sender IDs when they push out SMS messages to customers. The mandate would better safeguard consumers against potential scams as well as facilitate tracking when scam messages were sent to local mobile users, the Singapore regulator said....

Worldwide smartphone sales – as opposed to shipments – fell from 366.27 million in Q3 2020 to 342.29 million in the current quarter, according to tech analyst Gartner. Samsung led Q3 2021 with 69 million units, down from 81 million units a year ago. However, Apple’s iPhone sales rose from 40.5 million a year ago to 48.5 million units in Q3 2021. SEE: Best phone 2021: The top 10 smartphones available Not surprisingly, the main reason for the fall in sales was due to industry-wide component shortages....

The Morello board is the product of a collaboration between Arm, Cambridge University, Microsoft and others based on the Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) architecture. Microsoft says the board and system on chip (SoC) is the first high-performance implementation of CHERI, which provides “fine-grained spatial memory safety at a hardware level”. If it proves successful after testing with legacy software, it could pave the way for future CPU designs....

The 2024 E-Class is coming equipped with Webex Meetings and Calling, about a year after Cisco first extended Webex Meetings to vehicles, starting with a partnership with Ford. The new Mercedes-Benz vehicles will be equipped with Wi-Fi and cellular data connections, allowing drivers to download the Webex app from the Mercedes-Benz Car App Store. It will appear directly on the touchscreen of the vehicle’s infotainment system, meaning you won’t need your phone to connect to your meeting....

The robot dogs are known as Vision 60 Q-UGVs, for quadruped unmanned ground vehicles. Bearing more than a passing similarity to Boston Dynamics’ YouTube sensation quadrupeds, they are designed as task agnostic roving sensor platforms capable of detecting a variety of threats. Ghost Robotics describes its Vision 60 model as a “mid-sized high-endurance, agile and durable all-weather ground drone for use in a broad range of unstructured urban and natural environments for defense, homeland and enterprise applications....

The launch is part of the USSF-44 classified mission for the United States Space Force that will take its payload to a geosynchronous orbit (GEO) at about 22,000 miles (35,000 km) from Earth – much farther away from Earth than SpaceX’s Starink satellites, which orbit in low-Earth orbit (LEO) at 340 miles (550 km) from Earth. Falcon Heavy was first launched in 2018 and since then SpaceX’s focus has shifted to Starship, the yet-to-be-tested rocket that SpaceX, Tesla, and now Twitter boss Elon Musk hopes will carry humans to Mars one day....

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed work/life patterns for many of us. While there are some folks out there on the front lines doing dangerous, essential work and moving around in the world, many of us are locked down at home, doing our part to reduce transmission of the virus. The home dynamic has changed drastically as well. While some of us have worked from home for years, we’ve historically been a small fringe of the overall workforce....

It also roped in Alexandra Hospital as a partner on the platform, connecting the hospital’s health coaches to provide personalised healthcare plans encompassing lifestyle and dietary recommendations. In addition, the healthcare institution would onboard its own metabolic clinic patients to help prevent diseases from escalating into complex chronic illnesses, StarHub said Friday. Called LifeHub+, the telco’s new cloud-based service would be offered free to doctors, while patients would have to subscribe to a plan through their healthcare providers at SG$9....

MyRepublic carved out a new entity, called MyRepublic Broadband, for the transaction, which would encompass its consumer and enterprise customers in the city-state. StarHub Online, which comprises the telco’s broadband business, would acquire the MyRepublic shares. The acquisition would push StarHub’s share of the local broadband market to 40%, the two companies said in a joint statement Wednesday. MyRepublic currently has a 6% share of the market. In an email reply to ZDNet, MyRepublic’s chief investor relations officer Jeannie Ong confirmed the deal would only cover its broadband business in Singapore, and would not impact its mobile business here, as well as its platform business and other overseas entities....

With the three major brands, among others, contending for a spot in your ears, the heated competition brings a wealth of new technology and enhancements for all consumers to enjoy. With Bose’s QuietComfort Earbuds II, the company is banking on active noise cancellation (ANC) supremacy for success. I’ve been testing the QuietComfort Earbuds II for the past week, going about my fair share of subway rides in ever-so-lively New York City, working in an energetic newsroom environment, and exercising at a gym that insists on putting Ed Sheeran on loop....

Net profit for the period ending 31 December was NT$166 billion, up 16% year-on-year. Shipments of 5nm accounted for 23% of total revenue, an increase from the 18% in the previous quarter, while 7nm accounted for 27%, which is seven percentage points lower than 3Q21. Meanwhile, advanced technologies, defined as 7nm and below, accounted for 50% of total revenue. The company also broke the Q4 revenue results down by platform, which showed smartphone and high-performance computing represented 44% and 37% of net revenue respectively, while IoT, automotive each represented 9% and 4%, and it was 3% each for digital consumer electronics and others....