The InCharge Cable is just a bundle of convenience. First, it offers six different charging combinations. In addition to the ones listed above that can be used for output, it has both USB and USB-C ports for input. And, unlike a great many other cables, these aren’t restricted to only charging. They can sync and connect, as well. Even better, it has a proprietary chip that makes it possible even to charge tablets and laptops....

Challenge accepted! Because doing a proper comparison between the two cameras will take a little while, I thought that as an appetizer I’d bring you along for a first look, and note some things that I like and some things that I dislike right away about this newest action camera on the scene. This is the DJI Osmo Action 3 Adventure Combo, which is a little different from the base model in terms of accessories, but as far as the camera is concerned, they’re the same....

According to Chen, a “major computer manufacturer” at some point in the 2000s discovered that Rhythm Nation, a Jackson hit released in 1989, was crashing some laptops and caused a nearby laptop to crash even though it wasn’t playing the song. The reason, explains Chen, is that Rhythm Nation contained one of the “natural resonant frequencies” on laptops with 5400rpm hard drives. Fortunately, devices with disk spinning at 5400rpm are only common in older laptops....

Surely, Apple gave the camera cutouts a name so that the press and public didn’t end up naming it something worse than the notch, as we saw happen with the iPhone X. But what’s so special about the Dynamic Island? Well, Apple took what are actually two different cutouts – you can see them if you look at the screen close up while rotating the phone – and built software to hide the camera modules, all while making it interactive....

The company also offered an outlook for revenue this quarter that was just slightly below consensus. The report sent Dynatrace shares down by 18% for the day. In an interview with ZDNet via Zoom, CEO Rick McConnell remarked, “the company is doing great, I am thrilled to be here,” adding that the company’s market for observabiilty and app security is “alive and well.” This was McConnell’s first quarter running the company....

“The bird is freed,” Musk tweeted. One of Musk’s first moves, according to reports, was to fire several top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal. Twitter General Counsel Sean Edgett and Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s head of legal policy, trust and safety, were also let go. On the eve of his Twitter takeover, Elon Musk promised advertisers that the social media platform will not become a “free-for-all hellscape....

Social media newsletter Platformer reports that one of Elon Musk’s first moves since acquiring Twitter on late Thursday is demanding that executives roll out a program to charge existing verified users. On Sunday, Musk tweeted on his platform that the entire Twitter verification system will be revamped. On Tuesday, Musk affirmed his intent to revamp how people get verified on Twitter by charging an amount that is “adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity” and brings back “Power to the people”....

Even so, every time I hear of a new distribution release geared toward new users, I get excited because it means there’s one more version of the open-source operating system that can be used to sway new users away from their proprietary OSs. So, when I read there was a new release of Emmabuntüs, you can bet I wanted to try it right away. Also: Linux desktop powers consider uniting for an app store Emmabuntüs is a lightweight Linux distribution that is based on Debian 11....

The goal of onboarding is to immerse new employees in their new company culture. Onboarding should introduce new hires to their job duties, their company’s core values and beliefs, and connect them with team members. Of course, the end goal is to fully engage a new hire and decrease employee turnover. But unfortunately, and more often than not, a company’s onboarding program doesn’t accomplish any of these goals, and the consequences can be detrimental....

On Wednesday, IBM Security released its annual “Cost of a Data Breach” report, which estimates that in 2021, a typical data breach experienced by companies now costs $4.24 million per incident, with expenses incurred now 10% higher than in 2020 when 1,000 – 100,000 records are involved. So-called “mega” breaches impacting top enterprise firms responsible for the exposure of between 50 million and 65 million records now also come with a higher price tag – reaching an average of $401 million to resolve....

A shift in employee attitude toward the overly positive or negative ends of the spectrum Unusual network activity, such as employee sign-ins outside of operating hours Sudden increases in data traffic or network activity for individual employees Access requests that don’t conform to the usual activities of an employee. In addition to utilizing the best cybersecurity software to protect your business, you need to understand the potential insider threats to your business and how to address them....

Lightway performs well, and it’s very secure. It’s not the fastest protocol (yet), but it has the potential to be. The rest of its results were nearly as good, but I found some areas where it needs to improve. Let’s take a look at what makes Lightway a promising protocol, where it excels, and where it needs work. Use Lightway With ExpressVPN! Pros and Cons of Lightway Start Using Lightway Now!...

ExpressVPN makes this bold claim multiple times on its website, but does it live up to the hype? We tested for connection speed and performance using servers across its 148 global locations to see how it compared to other premium VPNs, and the results are in. Testing ExpressVPN’s Speed - Quick Summary Yes! ExpressVPN is the fastest VPN on the market. Its speed and performance beat other top VPNs in every country we tested....

In a blog post, Facebook’s engineering team outlined a MySQL upgrade from 5.6 to 8.0. MySQL serves as the basis for Facebook’s storage engine, replication and workloads. Facebook had custom features with the open-source database, had to ensure replication was compatible and had to minimize changes while bolstering performance. The upgrade is worth a read since it highlights how enterprises can customize open-source software and end up with all the complications of a proprietary system....

Launched by Nvidia, which invested a total $100 million in designing and building the device, Cambridge-1 is expected to step up research capabilities across the UK in fields like digital biology, genomics and drug discovery. The system was built in only 20 weeks, despite the restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which stopped Nvidia engineers from crossing the Atlantic to assist their UK-based colleagues during the build. SEE: Guide to Becoming a Digital Transformation Champion (TechRepublic Premium) Instead, the company resorted to a number of technologies, ranging from sophisticated computational modelling to remote-controlled mobile robots, to make sure that Cambridge-1 could be delivered and launched on time....

The reason this vulnerability exists is due to the strong tie-ins between GMail and all of Google’s other services, such as Google Calendar, Blogger, and Google Code AND the strong desire for Google Apps to be able to share data with people. This isn’t the first time, the second time, or the last time the strong tie-ins have produced interesting results, see my post on Billy Rios’s Google Code exploit, Billy’s taking ownership (pwnership) of content attacks against Google Spreadsheets, Billy and I stealing documents from Google Docs, and see my talk at Black Hat for more....

On the desktop side of things, Mozilla’s latest release made “significant improvements” to the browser’s built-in noise suppression and auto-gain-control features. These improvements are aimed at web-based video chat users, particularly those that utilize software or hardware without its own built-in methods for suppressing background noise or automatically controlling the user’s mic input levels. Along the same lines, Mozilla also made “slight improvements” to its echo-cancellation tech, which helps speakers in poor acoustic environments avoid resonance....

Also: The best laptops for every type of person and budget Before we get into some of the finer details about the brand new Laptop 16 which features an expansion bay that can house discrete GPUs and an input module bay that allows you to hot swap the keyboard and number pad, let’s take a closer look at the improvements coming to Framework’s existing Laptop 13. The Laptop 13 gets some big updates If you’ve been holding off on taking the modular plunge because of the lack of an AMD CPU option, your wait is nearly over....

Toast, which makes a point-of-sale system for restaurants, debuted on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TOST and saw its valuation come close to $33 billion. Freshworks, an IT service management and CRM company, began trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol FRSH. Its performance Wednesday gives the valuation of more than $14 billion. The IPO, Freshworks CMO Stacey Epstein told ZDNet, serves as “a validation of our mission, which is to help customers and companies all over the world delight their employees and their customers with really easy to use software designed for the user....