Studio Lab is currently available in public preview. The service is based on open-source JupyterLab and provides free access to AWS compute resources. To begin, a user creates an account (separate from an AWS account) and selects whether they need a CPU or GPU instance for their project. The service offers 12 hours of CPU or four hours of GPU per user session, with an unlimited number of user sessions available....
The timing of the outage couldn’t have been much worse for east coast Slack users, as reports began spiking just before 7 AM EST when many were logging on for the day. Within minutes, AWS’ status page was updated to confirm that the company had detected a power outage “within a single data center within a single Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) in the US-EAST-1 Region.” Restoration efforts got underway quickly, and AWS reported progress on restoring power within 18 minutes of its initial confirmation....
An accredited master’s in real estate can take your career to the next level, qualifying you for managerial roles in property acquisition and sales, construction, development, financing, and urban planning. The range of occupations available to master’s degree-holders attracts both those just starting a real estate career and seasoned professionals. Check out the information in this guide and the program rankings to explore the possibilities. Top 2 online schools for master’s in real estate: Quick facts The best online master’s in real estate degrees ZDNet’s ranking methodology uses data compiled by industry experts and scrutinized by our editorial staff to provide readers with the best school and program options....
But as the business world has learned since the start of the pandemic, you don’t have to brave airports and public spaces for an effective face-to-face meeting. Instead, video conferencing software and collaboration services have become the tool of choice for meetings and classes, with everyone from schoolkids to mortgage brokers to grandparents to international award show hosts learning (sometimes awkwardly) how to unmute themselves. Using the webcam on a Windows laptop, a Mac, or a mobile device, you can meet one-on-one or with a group, no matter how widely scattered the members of your class/team/family are....
In a new report, the ReasonLabs research team says it found Monero miners attached to Russian torrent files of the new film, which brought in more than $750 million worldwide since it debuted last week. The miner adds exclusions to Windows Defender, creates persistence, and spawns a watchdog process to maintain its activity, according to ReasonLabs. “The malware is not signed and written in .net, and as of this date, it is not present in Virus Total....
Biden’s comments follow this month’s REvil ransomware attack on the managed service provider (MSP) customers of US software vendor Kaseya that affected 60 MSPs and around 1,500 of their customers. Cyber attacks have become central to talks between Biden and Russia’s president Vladimir Putin in recent weeks, following the Kremlin-backed supply chain attack on SolarWinds that impacted federal agencies and US cybersecurity firms, as well as criminal ransomware attacks on fuel distribution network Colonial Pipeline and meat packer JBS....
“The question is if it’s something significantly short of an…invasion or major military forces coming across,” Biden said in response to a question about how the US would respond to a Russian invasion of Ukraine. “For example, it’s one thing to determine that if they continue to use cyber efforts, well, we can respond the same way, with cyber.” The Daily Beast later asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, and she confirmed that if Russia continued to launch cyberattacks, they would be answered with a “decisive, reciprocal, and united response....
Also: Best Black Friday 2022 gaming deals This gaming desktop features an Intel Core i7-11700KF processor with Turbo Boost to deliver top performance in the heaviest games. In fact, you can keep a library of games on the massive 1TB SSD. Plus, the PCle NVMe M.2 SSD keeps you in the game with speedy performance. Also inside the gaming rig is a 16GB memory card that works with the i7 CPU to boost your gaming performance during Player-v-Player games, first-person shooting, and more....
Also, today, C2X announced that it had launched an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) for its native token. According to the company’s press release, the public listing of the C2X token will be announced in the future, the date of which hasn’t been disclosed. In addition to the three lead investors, the private token sale received participation from 18 other investors representing a who’s who of investors in the gaming, crypto, DeFi, blockchain and entertainment industries....
The company also announced its board of directors authorized a new $10 billion share repurchase program running through December of 2022, and said in 2022 will will boost its quarterly dividend payout by 14%. The report sent Broadcom shares over 5% in late trading. CEO Hock Tan remarked, “Broadcom concluded the year with record fourth quarter results driven by a rebound in enterprise, and continued strength from cloud and service provider demand....
Specifically, .NET 6 developers can install the .NET 6 packages on Ubuntu with a single, simple command: #sudo apt install dotnet6 That’s all there is to it. Canonical has also released tiny new Open Container Initiative (OCI) .NET 6 LTS and ASP.NET compliant appliance images. These “Chiseled Ubuntu Containers” images come without a shell, package manager, or anything that’s not needed, making them more secure out of the box. These chiseled images are about 100MB smaller than their predecessors....
Now, the Australian-based graphic design platform Canva is rolling out a product to create more documents with more visual elements, called Canva Docs. Rather than having to cut and paste visual content into their document, a user can quickly tap into Canva’s library of more than 100 million videos, GIFs, photos, illustrations and other visual elements. They can also embed other content created in Canva, such as banners or whiteboards....
Also: The best laptops: Does Apple take the Crown? This is great news. When it comes to seriously beating on your machine, nothing beats having more RAM. For storage, it starts with a 256GB SSD, and it appears to go all the way up to a 2TB drive. Of course, having a powerhouse processor is also a real win. It appears, based on its XPS 13 Windows twin brother, it will come in six different base configurations These start with the 10th-generation Ice Lake Core i3-1005G1 and goes all the way up to the Core i7-1065G7....
In force since 7 January 2021, DEPA establishes common digital trade rules and seeks to drive interoperability between different regimes and digital systems of participating nations. Under the agreement, businesses in Singapore, New Zealand, and Chile can achieve greater efficiencies, trust, and reduced costs when trading and conducting digital transactions with one another, said Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry. For example, digital identities could be mutually recognised, mechanisms would be developed to secure personal data transferred across borders, and common e-invoicing standards could be adopted to reduce processing time....
CIS has been working for years to democratize cybersecurity protection through a variety of programs that provide free or low-cost tools to hospitals, schools and more. The new CIS Endpoint Security Services (ESS) platform, which is backed by Crowdstrike’s tools, is built to identify, detect and respond to security alerts from local governments. Through CrowdStrike’s Falcon system, the company will offer ESS users deployments onto endpoint devices. The platform provides antivirus solutions, endpoint detection and response, asset and software inventory, USB device monitoring, user account monitoring and host-based firewall management....
On Tuesday, BlackBerry released an advisory explaining that its QNX Real Time Operating System – which is used in medical devices, cars, factories and even the International Space Station – can be affected by BadAlloc, which is a collection of vulnerabilities affecting multiple RTOSs and supporting libraries. BlackBerry recently boasted that the QNX Real Time Operating System is used in 200 million cars. CISA added that IoT devices, operational technology and some industrial control systems had incorporated QNX Real Time Operating System, making it urgent for measures to be taken to protect systems....
This product doesn’t go on sale often, so now is definitely the time to snag it at $68 instead of its usual price tag of $150 before Prime Day ends tomorrow. The Click & Grow indoor smart garden lets you grow three plants of your choosing. You can choose from more than 50 plant refill capsules, including peppers, chives, catnip, yellow tomatoes, and more. Click & Grow’s plants contain a patented nano-material called Smart Soil that automatically releases oxygen and water to your plants and is inspired by NASA technology....
The one thing that people want more of from their iPhone is: Not bigger screens. Not faster processors. Not better cameras. But, battery life. Most people would give all this up for an extra hour of battery runtime. New iPhones already give pretty good battery life (assuming there’s not some kind of battery drain issue going on). Sometimes the problem isn’t the iPhone, but things that the user is doing....
Is tech hard for women to break into? Is the field boring and tied down to an office? Media images and public discussion based on stereotypes have led to damaging misconceptions about tech. These misconceptions form a barrier between tech and people who could transform it. The tech industry thrives on new, exciting voices who challenge preconceived ideas. An influx of students and professionals who rightly recognize tech as vibrant and inclusive are helping to dispel and rewrite common tech myths....
This is according to the latest communications industry report from Salesforce. To help providers understand how customer expectations have evolved and what’s required to succeed amidst the changing industry landscape, Salesforce surveyed 500 industry leaders and 6,000 customers for its 2022 Trends in the Communications Industry Report. Here are the key takeaways from the report: Build trust and reduce customer churn by focusing on the customer experience With more choices, the incumbent communications service providers are no longer the default....
