The three-year deal will give LG Electronics access to IBM’s quantum computing systems, experts, and their “Qiskit” open-source quantum information software development kit. “Based on our open innovation strategy, we plan to use IBM Quantum to develop our competency in quantum computing,” said Byoung-Hoon Kim, CTO and executive vice president of LG Electronics. “We aim to provide customers with value that they have not experienced so far by leveraging quantum computing technology in future businesses....

It can’t come soon enough. Recently, five serious Linux Wi-Fi security holes were uncovered. What did they all have in common? Go ahead, guess? Yes, each and every one was caused by a memory problem because of poorly written C code. I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Also: Even Linus Torvalds sometimes has PC problems That was the bad news. The good news is they’ve all been patched. The first hole was discovered by security researcher Soenke Huster from Germany’s Technical University of Darmstadt....

It’s high time a new long, serious look be taken at just how exclusive open source’s white boys’ club really is. The Linux Foundation is doing that with a new survey: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in Open Source. The survey takes about 15-minutes to complete. If you complete the survey, you’ll receive a 20% registration discount to attend the Open Source Summit/Embedded Linux Conference in Seattle. The Linux Foundation isn’t doing this study just for its own benefit....

Follow the steps below to watch the British Grand Prix live and for free, from anywhere in the world: This means that the outcome of Saturday’s bumper-to-bumper sprint will set the grid for Sunday’s main event. Friday’s traditional qualification will now decide the positions for Saturday’s sprint. Regardless of how you feel about F1’s attempts to stir things up, this year’s British Grand Prix is one racing fans have to see play out....

Naturally, it’s only fitting that the mouse that’s most likely to topple the MX Master 3 is an upgraded and modernized MX Master 3S. Logitech has finally lifted the curtain on the 2022 successor – along with the MX Mechanical keyboard, showing off new features like quieter mouse switches and a range of 8,000 DPI. On paper, those are minor upgrades for a four-year-long undertaking. But after testing the $99 MX Master 3S for the past weeks, I think Logitech has crafted a worthy sequel that makes its best mouse even better....

Ransomware is “totally foreseeable and preventable because it’s a known problem”, Falk told a panel discussion at the Australian Strategy Policy Institute (ASPI) on Tuesday. “It’s known that ransomware is out there. And it’s known that, invariably, the cyber criminals get into organisations through stealing credentials that they get on the dark web [or a user] clicking on a link and a vulnerability,” she said. “We’re not talking about some sort of nation-state really funky sort of zero day that’s happening....

McAfee’s Thibault Seret and Northwave’s Noël Keijzer wrote that many core backend systems in companies are running on these *nix operating systems, and Babuk wasted little time in infecting high-profile victims despite numerous problems with the binary. Researchers noted that some ransomware gangs experimented with writing their binaries in the cross-platform language Golang (Go). “It seems that Babuk has adopted live beta testing on its victims when it comes to its Golang binary and decryptor development....

Lyceum, also known as Hexane, Siamesekitten, or Spirlin, has been active since 2017. The advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been linked to campaigns striking Middle Eastern oil and gas companies in the past and now appears to have expanded its focus to include the technology sector. According to a report published on Tuesday by Accenture Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI) and Prevailion Adversarial Counterintelligence (PACT), between July and October this year, Lyceum was spotted in attacks against ISPs and telecoms organizations across Israel, Morocco, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia....

In Q4, the impact of Apple’s iOS changes were “in line with our expectations and similar to Q3 headwinds,” CFO David Wehner said on the call. “We believe the impact of iOS overall as a headwind on our business in 2022 is on the order of $10 billion. So it’s a pretty significant headwind for our business.” Apple’s iOS 14.5 update, released in April 2021, included an App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature that has had a notable impact on digital advertising....

The move sparked concern from users over tracking and centralization fears, with some considering ditching MetaMask entirely. MetaMask Infura RPC Will Collect IP, Wallet Addresses The privacy policy changes released Wednesday led to concerned and outraged customers, as ConsenSys said any user interacting with Ethereum or through MetaMask would be handing over their IP and wallet address to the firm’s Infura tool — an RPC provider. The company then released a follow-up statement clarifying that the policy updates “do not result in more intrusive data collection or data processing” and that their policy “always stated that certain information is automatically collected about how users use our Sites, and that this information may include IP addresses....

Microsoft’s Scheduler enables Cortana to act as the front end for scheduling meetings with people outside of a user’s organization. Microsoft is rolling out some other Cortana-branded capabilities on the voice front for Outlook on iOS, as well, starting today. Scheduler got its start as an AI-powered bot called Calendar.help. Microsoft rebranded that technology as a “Scheduler” in 2019. Microsoft’s goal was to release the Scheduler service in 2020, but that date was pushed back due to the pandemic....

Adding to this list is another vulnerability once again troubling Microsoft’s products. The product in question is Microsoft Office, one of the most widely used computer software packages ever created, residing on billions of computers all over the world. Recently, a high-risk software vulnerability was discovered that could allow a malicious remote attacker to breach a vulnerable system that is not patched with the latest security updates. The Microsoft Office Software Vulnerability The Microsoft Office software vulnerability is a code injection type....

“We’ve confirmed that the impacted services have recovered and remain stable. We’re investigating some potential impact to the Exchange Online Service,” Microsoft said on Twitter at 2.31PM GMT. Earlier in the day Microsoft said it has “rolled back a network change” that it believed was causing the problem and said it was monitoring the service as the rollback takes effect. At 10.47GMT Microsoft said on Twitter: “We’re continuing to monitor the recovery across the service and some customers are reporting mitigation....

In other Teams-related news, Microsoft launched last week a new device trade-in program for Teams in conjunction with Network-Value, a device trade-in specialist. Via this program, companies can get cash back by selling their video-conferencing hardware, desktop phones, and other unified communications devices as part of their move to Teams.

Microsoft’s Security Intelligence team warned this week that attackers are sending the OAuth phishing emails to “hundreds” of Office 365 customers. The potentially malicious app, dubbed ‘Upgrade’, asks users to grant it OAuth permissions that would allow attackers to create inbox rules, read and write emails and calendar items, and read contacts, according to Microsoft Security Intelligence. SEE: Cloud computing is the key to business success. But unlocking its benefits is hard work Targets would see a notification asking them to grant the app various permissions, such as to read and write your files, read calendars and so forth....

Cannon-Brookes took to Twitter to announce that the Brookfield-led consortium, which includes Grok Ventures, Cannon-Brookes’ private investment company, is “putting our pens down”, after the Australian energy giant rejected a second takeover bid. “Our path was the world’s biggest decarbonisation project. From Aus [sic],” Cannon-Brookes said. Under the second takeover bid, the consortium was offering AGL AU$8.25 per share, a 10% increase on the initial offering of AU$7.50 that was also rejected....

Mirantis’s popular open-source Lens integrated development environment (IDE) program makes programming with Kubernetes easier. And in its latest Lens tech preview, Mirantis makes it even simpler with access to your own managed Kubernetes development cluster. You can do this directly from the Lens Desktop application (available for Linux, macOS, and Windows users) via the integrated Lens Spaces cloud-based service. This means you can directly access a development cluster optimized for your software development needs....

So complicated that those who create it often don’t realize the complications it engenders. The result, as has become very clear, is that security becomes a chimera. Lately, however, nations have expressed increasing hostility toward other nations. You might think the root cause of this is insecurity – of the psychological kind. But for everyday IT professionals, this is inciting increasing pressures and fears that grow like mushrooms beneath damp trees....

Kivimäki, 25, has been sought by Europol since November 2022. Authorities issued an arrest warrant after Kivimäki failed to appear for a late October 2022 court hearing to face charges of hacking the Helsinki-based Vastaamo Psychotherapy Center. Vastaamo, now defunct, was a public health contractor providing mental health services to thousands of Finns. The breach was first made public in 2020, though the hacking campaign started in 2018. Authorities allege that after failing to first extort Vastaamo for about €450,000, then moving to extort individual patients, Kivimäki — a....