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So what does a skills gap look like at NASA? Meza says his team is still taking a “deep dive” into the organisation’s data science talent demands – but clear patterns are emerging, particularly in terms of identifying capability that already exists within the organisation. “One of the biggest challenges has been to identify where our data science skills are within NASA. It’s not a terminology or an occupation that’s been labelled data science within the government....

“Before InSight, the interior of Mars was a giant question mark,” Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said to reporters on Tuesday. “We just had this really fuzzy picture of what was going on inside Mars. Now we can actually draw a quantitatively precise picture.” And while InSight will slowly wind down this year as it loses power, it’s still collecting valuable data. On May 4, InSight detected a magnitude 5 marsquake – the largest quake it’s recorded by a factor of 10....

The CAPSTONE mission is a key step in advancing NASA’s Artemis program, which will culminate with NASA landing the first woman and first person of color on the Moon. The mission is also another successful milestone for NASA in its efforts to support a commercial space economy. The aim of CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) is to test different technologies in a lunar orbit called a “near rectilinear halo orbit” (NRHO)....

The acquisition also is NCS’ largest, to date, and will triple its local headcount to 1,300, said NCS in a statement Tuesday. Australia’s largest privately-owned IT services company, Dialog has presence across seven cities in the country, including Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, and Brisbane. Its portfolio spans managed application services, IT consulting, and application development. NCS CEO Ng Kuo Pin said the size of the acquisition demonstrated the company’s commitment to grow its business outside of Singapore, in particular, Australia, where parent company Singtel already had a strong presence....

Large swings in economic factors directly impact small businesses’ daily operations, making it more challenging for them to absorb the impact, plan for the future, and continue to show growth. Small business owners are worried. This sentiment, confirmed in the new State of Small Business report by Veem, found that 49% of small business owners anticipate the US will face a recession by the end of this year. “There is high anxiety at the moment about the amount of uncertainty coming in the second half of the year,” Veem CEO, Marwan Forzley, told ZDNet....

In a blog post, vice president of Content Delivery Architecture at Netflix David Fullagar shared his utopic vision of a platform where all of Netflix’s content is globally available, saying that if this were the case, there would not be a reason for members to use proxies or unblockers. “In coming weeks, those using proxies and unblockers will only be able to access the service in the country where they currently are,” Fullagar said....

In a recent “What’s new in Chrome OS” press release, Google shared a slew of upcoming features that include improvements to photo syncing, Wi-Fi sharing, and fast-pairing via Android. Here’s a summary of the new software additions that will make Chromebook and Android users a little less envious of Apple’s product line. Easy access to recent photos Remember when old sci-fi movies predicted that we’d have flying cars in 2020?...

Research by consultant McKinsey suggests 46% of senior management appointments are regarded as failures or disappointments after two years. So, how can you succeed in a new role? Five business leaders give us their top tips. 1. Set out your objectives clearly Lisa Heneghan, global chief digital officer (CDO) at consultancy firm KPMG, says anyone taking on a new position should get clarity on scope as soon as possible. “When you start in a new role, you need to create some structure and you need to understand what you’ve got, but you also need to very clearly work out what you’re going to do,” she says....

Terms of the merger were not disclosed but the two companies spent months negotiating before making the announcement. The two companies will operate as separate entities “relying on separate infrastructures and different product development plans.” In a statement, Surfshark founder and CEO Vytautas Kaziukonis defended the VPN market’s worrisome consolidation, arguing that it indicated “the industry’s maturity.” “Consolidations in the global consumer cybersecurity market indicate the industry’s maturity,” Kaziukonis said....

Previously, only hospitality businesses and hairdressers were required to integrate the state’s QR check-in system into their operations. From July 12, retail businesses, supermarkets, individual shops within shopping centres, entry points at shopping centres, gyms, offices, call centres, manufacturing and warehousing businesses, universities and TAFE, and schools including teachers and visitors – such as parents and contractors – will be required to use the state’s check-in system. Students will not be required to check in with the Service NSW app....

Nvidia CFO Colette Kress said at the company’s Q3 results call on Wednesday evening that the FTC was reviewing the deal, and that the company has been in talks with the US regulator about how it can alleviate concerns around the deal. She added that some Arm licensees have expressed concerns or objected to the deal. Nvidia’s update about the FTC review comes a day after the UK government launched an in-depth antitrust investigation into the deal....

Richard Kerris, who runs a team of a hundred people at chip giant Nvidia who work on building technology for the metaverse, known as Omniverse (more here), is not at all skeptical about that future world. He is skeptical about one thing, though. “The only thing I’m skeptical about is how people tend to talk about it,” Kerris told ZDNet, on a recent trip through New York City to meet with developers....

On Thursday, Check Point Research (CPR) said that the bugs were found in the software solutions provider’s online domains, used by thousands of enterprise clients worldwide. The Australian vendor is the provider of tools including Jira, a project management system, and Confluence, a document collaboration platform for remote teams. The vulnerabilities in question were found in a number of Atlassian-maintained websites, rather than on-prem or cloud-based Atlassian products. Subdomains under atlassian....

Optus said Thursday it was looking into “possible unauthorised access” of customer data following a cyber attack, but did not reveal details of what systems were affected, when the breach was discovered, or how many customers mights be impacted. Its CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, though, said: “We have been subject to a cyberattack that has resulted in the disclosure of our customers’ personal information to someone who shouldn’t see it....

The breach involves the information of 750,000 patients and 522 current and former OAG employees. In a statement, the company said it was contacted by the FBI on October 21. The FBI explained that it seized an account that contained OAG patient and employee files from HelloKitty, a Ukrainian ransomware group. The FBI said it believes the group exploited a vulnerability in OAG’s third-party firewall, enabling the hackers to gain entry to the network....

OWC has you covered with the new Accelsior 8M2. This system leverages the total bandwidth of the latest PCIe technology, providing ultra-reliable speeds up to 26,000MB/s. Each OWC Accelsior 8M2’s eight NVMe M.2 SSD slots can run at their full x4 lanes of data throughput through an entire PCIe 4.0 x16 lane architecture with up to 64TB of storage. All that performance generates a lot of heat, which is why the Accelsior 8M2 has been designed to offer superior heat generation....

The iPhone SE revamp both updates 2020’s model and becomes a de facto replacement for the iPhone mini. Like the latter, the SE enters the market with the same A15 Bionic processor used in Apple’s more expensive models. Apple noted this means that the SE will receive OS upgrades for years to come; indeed, Apple has an excellent track record of supporting older iPhones with new system software. It also means that developers have a broader baseline when it comes to developing leading-edge apps....

The new monitor is meant to be worn on your forearm and includes metrics, interactive features, and easy-to-read heart rate zones to track your workouts, whether it’s on a Peloton bike or treadmill. It comes in small or large sizes and includes a black band. The monitor is available to order online in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, and Australia. The heart rate monitor band has LED lights built in to indicate heart rate information, Bluetooth connectivity status, and the strap’s battery level....

Phishing attacks are one of the most common cybersecurity threats businesses face today because cyber criminals know that employees at every level are reliant on email for communication. Also: What is phishing? Everything you need to know to protect against scam emails - and worse According to analysis by Barracuda Networks, the average cost of the most expensive email attacks during the past 12 months amounts to a total of $1,033,066 – and for large organizations, the average cost of the most costly attack is even higher, at $1,264,315....

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) in an advisory report this week said it supports the passing of new intelligence oversight laws that would extend the IGIS’s oversight role to the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC). The IGIS already has existing oversight arrangements with six agencies within Australia’s national intelligence community (NIC), including the Office of National Intelligence, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Australian Signals Directorate, Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation, and Defence Intelligence Organisation....