Well, I just happened to have an old system lying about, so I decided to install Windows 10 on it just to see what would happen. First, a little bit of history about the system in question. This is a PC that I built back in January of 2008. For its time, this was a pretty high-end system, featuring a 3.0GHz quad-core Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor, an Asus Maximus Formula board, and 8GB of Crucial RAM....
Scratch that. There’s a big problem in the mobile industry. When was the last time you used your smartphone to film a movie? Never? Well, that makes two of us. But phone makers are continuing to promote their smartphone cameras with award-winning film directors, which, from a marketing standpoint, makes more sense than either of us shooting a movie with a smartphone. People see how capable these smartphones are. People pay the big bucks to reap the advertised benefits....
With these new services, Zoom is one step closer to ensuring you never have to leave the Zoom app to get your work done. “We’re taking a big step forward to help users access the tools they need every day,” Zoom’s Cari Dick told reporters ahead of the Zoomtopia conference. “Wasted time switching between apps really adds up. So we’re helping to eliminate this ’toggle tax’ by bringing critical productivity tools right into the Zoom app, front and center....
Arguing that today’s encryption isn’t unpredictable enough, New York-based startup Qrypt on Wednesday formally publicly announced its intent to offer “entropy-as-a-service,” or EaaS, to provide businesses as well as individuals with truly random number generation capabilities. “Everyone has an inherent right to privacy; we believe that right is under attack by Russia, China, any bad actor you want to pick,” said founder and CEO Kevin Chalker in an interview with ZDNet via Zoom....
The Snapdragon system on a chip (SoC) platform provides processing power and capabilities for mobile devices including smartphones, wearables, and Always On / Always Connected PCs. Various processor designs under the Snapdragon banner, ranging from premium to entry-level options for OEMs, include features for gaming, photography, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, streaming, and audio. The latest platform, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, was announced today. On Tuesday, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told attendees of the annual Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit that “when we think about designing Snapdragon, we think about the user at the very center [....
The move will give QCI more visibility for its flagship Qatalyst platform, which aims to deliver quantum computing without complex programming and code and quantum experts. The CIO’s guide to quantum computingBigger quantum computers, faster: This new idea could be the quickest route to real world appsQuantum computers take up a lot of space. Researchers decided to shrink this one down According to QCI, Qatalyst gives enterprises the ability to use quantum computing to solve supply chain, logistics, drug discovery, cybersecurity and transportation issues....
According to market data analyst Pitchbook, this year has already seen $1.02 billion worth of private money funneled into the quantum computing industry – more than the three previous years combined, even with still another few months to go in 2021. This compares to a mere $187.5 million invested in the industry only two years ago and a total of $93.5 million all the way back in 2015. See also: What is quantum computing?...
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Microsoft security researchers discovered the flaw being actively exploited on Windows systems in August and this week’s Patch Tuesday update included a patch for the previously unknown bug, tracked as CVE-2021-40444. The attacks were not widespread and the vulnerability was used as part of an early stage attack that distributed custom Cobalt Strike Beacon loaders. Cobalt Strike is a penetration testing tool. SEE: Don’t want to get hacked? Then avoid these three ’exceptionally dangerous’ cybersecurity mistakes Rather than the work of state-sponsored hackers, Microsoft found the loaders communicated with infrastructure that it links to several cyber-criminal campaigns, including human-operated ransomware, according to Microsoft’s analysis of the attacks....
The latest alert comes following a spate of high-profile ransomware attacks around the world during the past month, including incidents encrypting the networks of Colonial Pipeline, Ireland’s health service and meat supplier JBS. The NCSC has previously warned about ransomware attacks targeting the education sector, but late May and early June has seen another increase in incidents – at a critical time of year when it comes to coursework, exams and other assignments....
Vulkan is a graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs, and aims to provide graphics developers with new ways to get the best performance out of hardware. Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton described the driver as a ‘much requested feature’ when work started on the project a couple of years ago. The new driver will come to future Raspberry Pi OS updates as the Vulkan 1....
In a blogpost titled “The Ventura problem”, Raspberry Pi Trading’s head of documentation Alasdair Allan explains the glitch affecting the Pi Pico on Ventura and urges Pico users not to upgrade to Ventura, “at least not yet”. The issue affects the Pico and other boards using Raspberry Pi’s RP2040 chip. Allan says these boards’ virtual volume will mount as expected, but if users attempt to drag-and-drop a UF2 file onto that volume, they’ll be met with a MacOS “error code 100093”....
Read AI has exited stealth mode with a $10 million seed round led by Madrona Venture Group. The company also launched Read Dashboard, a real-time dashboard that measures engagement and sentiment for meeting attendees. The concept behind Read AI is notable given hybrid work and the reality that most of our meetings will be conducted via video conferencing. Read AI is akin to Waze for meetings. Read Dashboard is in beta....
A survey of more than 1,000 professionals by Paychex found that employees who update their benefits packages to new working preferences benefit from greater productivity, higher job satisfaction and better company culture as a result. Paychex, a company providing payroll and HR services to small and medium-sized businesses, found that 65% of employees whose benefits had changed since switching to remote work reported an increased level of job satisfaction, while 73% of employees noted that productivity levels had improved when employers adjusted their benefits package....
In November, the agency announced that by the summer of this year, taxpayers will need to have an ID.me account in order to access certain IRS online resources. The IRS signed an $86 million contract with ID.me, according to the Washington Post, which noted that more than 70 million Americans who filed for unemployment insurance, pandemic assistance grants, child tax credit payments, or other services that have already been scanned....
MITRE publishes the the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) for software flaws, but this year has run a survey to create its first ever equivalent list for hardware flaws. The 2021 Hardware List aims to boost awareness of common hardware flaws and to prevent hardware security issues by educating designers and programmers on how to eliminate important mistakes early in the product development lifecycle. SEE: Gartner releases its 2021 emerging tech hype cycle: Here’s what’s in and headed out “Security analysts and test engineers can use the list in preparing plans for security testing and evaluation....
As of yesterday, Ring security camera and video doorbell customers will only have access to setting Home and Away modes for their devices with a paid subscription. This feature, which let customers ‘arm’ their security cameras to record events when you’re not home or leave them activated while not recording when home, was free for non-subscribing customers before the updates. Also: The best home security cameras The biggest changes to the Ring updated subscription affect Ring Alarm users, especially those who purchase a base station after March 29....
Under a memorandum of understanding, the plan is to develop 35 new 220-tonne 793 zero-emissions haul trucks to be used at the Gudai-Darri iron ore mine, located in the Pilbara region. As part of the development, prototypes will be developed, tested, and undergo pre-production trials before the trucks are rolled out on-site. The move is part of the mining giant’s $1 billion climate change commitment where it plans to have net zero emissions by 2050....
The pledge, made as part of Samsung’s new sustainability platform called Galaxy for the Planet, is aimed at reducing the waste created during the lifecycle of Samsung smartphones products. The pledge sets various sustainability goals that Samsung hopes to reach by 2025. Following that timeline, along with dropping plastic packaging, Samsung plans to incorporate recycled material in all new smartphone products, achieve zero waste to landfill, and reduce the standby power consumption of its smartphone chargers to below 0....
Samsung’s 5G smartphone sales grew a whopping 79% between Q4 2020 and Q1 2021, far ahead of the 5G category’s overall growth of 6% and way ahead of Apple, whose 5G iPhone sales declined 23% quarter on quarter, according to Strategy Analytics, although that largely reflected how strong iPhone sales were in Q4 of last year. And Apple is still by far the biggest vendor of 5G smartphones despite the drop in shipments....
