Hybrid work is expected to be the new normal, but there are a few firms such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs that expect everyone back in the office every day. The edict from these two financial giants boils down to this: Get your asses back to the office. We’ll see how the Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs approach goes and how many employees rivals ultimately poach, but that’s one end of the spectrum....
When the pandemic began, most of the UC-as-a-Service (UCaaS) providers – RingCentral included – had basic functions. Since then, there has been a mad dash to add more features to improve the products. This set of product updates adds several innovations that address some of the key aspects of remote work. Specifically, RingCentral announced the following: Dynamic end-to-end encryption (E2EE): This is a term that has caused great confusion in the UC industry because some vendors stretched the definition....
“Try as they might, Russian cyberattacks simply have not had the intended impact,” said Lindy Cameron, CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – the cyber arm of GCHQ – speaking at Chatham House in London. “But if the Ukrainian cyber defence teaches us a wider lesson – for military theory and beyond – it is that, in cybersecurity, the defender has significant agency. In many ways you can choose how vulnerable you can be to attacks....
Michael is also a board member at Rutgers Center for Innovation Education. Maoz regularly writes about business, leadership, and innovation industry tends. Today, Maoz is actively collaborating with CEOs and senior executives of the biggest and fastest-growing companies around the globe, guiding and learning from digital business transformation trailblazers. I asked Maoz to share his thoughts on the crisis as a turning point, and the importance of core values and guiding principles of business trailblazers....
There’s a lot to unpack about the phones and the differences between Samsung’s latest phones and their predecessors, which we’ll continue to do over the coming days, but a good place to start is with the differences between last year’s flagship S22 Ultra and its successor, the S23 Ultra. Review: Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra: Best smartphone of the year (so far) Below I’ll break down the major differences and what they are, as well as highlight some of the reasons you may want to go with the S22 Ultra over the latest and greatest Samsung has to offer....
Whether you have kids, pets, or housemates running around, it never takes long for hardwood floors and carpets to become dirty – but if you’re anything like me, it’s a task I try to put off for as long as possible. That’s why earlier this year, I took the plunge and purchased a robot vacuum – and while my cats flee in terror during its morning 9.30AM scheduled clean, I think it’s been well worth the investment to take a job off my list....
If you need more space to manage your TV shows, music, photos, or work documents – and you tend to be accident-prone – you might want to consider purchasing the SanDisk 2TB Extreme portable SSD. While usually set with a store price tag of around $450, US retail giant B&H is offering $270 off, bringing the cost down to $180. The SanDisk Extreme portable SSD drive provides users with 2TB of storage space, which is more than adequate to handle large files and digital media libraries....
Scammers are aware of this Achilles’ heel and are now using AI to exploit it. Also: These experts are racing to protect AI from hackers. Time is running out A report from The Washington Post featured an elderly couple, Ruth and Greg Card, who fell victim to an impersonation phone call scam. Ruth, 73, got a phone call from a person she thought was her grandson. He told her she was in jail, with no wallet or cell phone, and needed cash fast....
Dubbed INFRA:HALT, the set of 14 security vulnerabilities have been detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Forescout Research Labs and JFrog Security Research, who warn that if left unchecked, the flaws could allow remote code execution, denial of service or even information leaks. All the vulnerabilities relate to TCP/IP stacks – communications protocols commonly used in connected devices – in NicheStack, used throughout operational technology (OT) and industrial infrastructure. SEE: The Privacy Paradox: How can businesses use personal data while also protecting user privacy?...
As such tools emerge and become more pervasive over time, schools and institutes of higher learnings (IHLs) must be able to effectively harness them to enhance learning, said Education Minister Chan Chun Sing. He said the ministry already was providing educators the “guidance and resource” to do so. “As with any tech, ChatGPT and similar generative AI tools present both opportunities and challenges to users,” Chan said in parliament Monday, in response to questions from Members of Parliament (MPs)....
The partnership between MetaVerse Green Exchange (MVGX) and Red Dot Analytics (RDA) would aim to “verifiably measure and offset” the carbon footprint of data centres in tropical environments, the two companies said in a joint statement Wednesday. A deep-tech startup spun off from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, RDA offers AI-enabled applications to help operators of mission-critical infrastructures such as buildings, utility grids, and manufacturing plants improve their energy efficiencies and productivity....
Singtel said in a statement Thursday that it would sell a 3.3% direct stake in Airtel to Bharti Telecom, the joint venture it had established with Bharti Enterprises. The sale would reduce Singtel’s total Airtel shares to 29.7%, worth an estimated SG$22 billion. It added that the sale would be exercised any time before November 22 this year. Singtel CFO Arthur Lang said it would mark the first sale involving Airtel shares and help meet Singtel’s needs for 5G and growth initiatives over the next few years....
In an advisory sent out on Friday and updated on Saturday, SolarWinds said Microsoft “reported to SolarWinds that they had discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in the SolarWinds Serv-U product.” SolarWinds added that the Serv-U Gateway is a component of the Serv-U Managed File Transfer and Serv-U Secure FTP tools and is not a separate product. The vulnerability can be found in the latest Serv-U version 15.2.3 HF1 released May 5, 2021, and all prior versions....
The company attributed the total revenue growth to the 57% year-on-year uplift to $435 million in total subscription revenue. This compromised of $318 million in cloud revenue, which was up 53% year-on-year, data centre revenue contributed $111 million, server pitched in $139.5 million, and the remaining $45 million was marketplace and services revenue. During the quarter ending 30 September, Atlassian said its net loss was $400 million, or $1.59 a share....
“This Budget is our blueprint for a stronger South Australia, creating jobs, building what matters and delivering better services to further secure our growing global reputation as one of the safest and most attractive places in the world to live, work, and raise a family,” Treasurer Rob Lucas said on Tuesday. Some of the specific funding announcements include AU$20.8 million to upgrade the existing buildings at Lot Fourteen to make way for the expansion of space, digital, hi-tech, and cyber companies, with a particular focus on companies involved in small satellite development....
Not much has been revealed about Starshield beyond a page on SpaceX’s website explaining that “Starshield leverages SpaceX’s Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts.” It promotes Starshield as “supporting national security” and points out that Starlink features end-to-end data encryption, which is already available on its service for consumers and business. “Starlink already offers unparalleled end-to-end user data encryption. Starshield uses additional high-assurance cryptographic capability to host classified payloads and process data securely, meeting the most demanding government requirements,” it notes....
Also: What is Stack Overflow? A forum for all who code SJVN: So, for my readers who don’t know Stack Overflow, can you tell me about the site? PC: Stack Overflow is so popular because it has about 50 million questions and answers on every possible technology topic. Everything from programming languages like Python to scripting languages like JavaScript to cloud technologies like AWS and so on. PC: It’s all thanks to the brilliance of our founders, Joel Spolsky, and Jeff Atwood, who created fast, automatic social management tools in 2008....
ChatGPT is based on OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model. People have quickly discovered that, while it answers prompts in a “human-adjacent” way, there can be flaws in the answers it gives. Since launching, it’s been prompted in numerous ways, including to write new code and fix coding errors, while the chatbot can ask for more context when a human asks it to resolve coding problems, as OpenAI sets out in examples....
It’s just a bug fix, right? No, this is no ordinary bug fix. Must read: Why you need to update all your iPhones, iPads, and Macs urgently - NOW! I find Apple a bit strange in that it downplays security vulnerabilities. Apple will tell you that an update is important, but in Apple-land, all updates are important. Take the release notes for iOS 14.7.1 as an example: The update is “important” and “recommended....
With the streams of files and data emanating from sensors, cameras, connected machines, and people — and with the world’s population continuing to increase at an average of 81 million individuals per year — the storage business will never lack for customers. But storage pricing isn’t getting cheaper for volume discounts, as it did during the cloud era a decade or so ago. So people are seeking alternatives for the increasing cost of cloud storage – along with affiliated fees for egress and data protection....
