At the same time, NBN announced the next 200,000 that will be able to upgrade from fibre to the node (FttN) to fibre to the premises (FttP). This latest announcement now leaves only 400,000 premises remaining to be announced to complete the company’s two million premises able to upgrade target. NBN added it was also expecting the first invitations for customers to upgrade fibre to the curb (FttC) connections to be sent in 2022....
According to NEC, the test involves utilising its vector annealing service and applying it to selected on-site maintenance services to help formulate delivery plans for maintenance parts so that it’s in line with customer engineer (CE) dispatch plans. “There are several hundred maintenance operations each day in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and parts are delivered from parts centres in accordance with the dispatch plans prepared based on CE’s skills and arrival times, taking into account traffic conditions,” NEC said....
How is that increasing size to be dealt with? With more powerful chips, on the one hand, but also by putting some of the software on a diet. On Thursday, the latest benchmark test of how fast a neural network can be run to make predictions was presented by MLCommons, the consortium that runs the MLPerf tests. The reported results featured some important milestones, including the first-ever benchmark results for Nvidia’s “Hopper” GPU, unveiled in March....
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Trend Micro first detected the ransomware in an attack against a local US bank in December last year. It added that White Rabbit has similar traits to Egregor, an established ransomware family. Read on to learn more about White Rabbit and how you can protect yourself. White Rabbit Requires Specific Command-line Password At first glance, White Rabbit is not likely to raise suspicion. It is a small file of around 100 KB....
Cadillac’s new XTS luxury sedan features an industry first: vibrating seats that alert drivers to any possible dangers while driving or parking. The seat generates a vibrating pulse when a driver finds himself in a potentially precarious situation, such as drifting into a different traffic lane or coming too close to nearby objects when parking. The seat can vibrate on either the left or right side, depending on where the threat originates....
NordVPN‘s blog (Nord Security) and Surfshark‘s blog both confirm that they are joining forces. The two companies, recognized as leaders in the VPN space, just finalized the merger agreement that has been ongoing since mid-2021. Details About the Merger Agreement “You read it right – Surfshark is joining forces with Nord Security,” stated Surfshark. This “will reveal technical knowledge-sharing opportunities and enable more focused market diversification” added NordVPN. Although Surfshark remarked that their intentions in the VPN realm do overlap with NordVPN, they stated that their products “are still different and will remain distinct....
“(Right now) there’s no alternative to Apple. This means that consumers don’t have a choice, innovation slows down, and that’s not right,” said Pei. To challenge the iPhone makers’ bounded, walled-garden ecosystem of products, Nothing is set to launch the phone (1) later this year, while curating a seamless, integrative ecosystem with third-party products. What those third-party products entail remains unknown. What we do know is a series of key features and specs of the phone (1) and when consumers can expect the Nothing smartphone to arrive in store shelves....
The ARM-based RP2040, its first microcontroller, was available for $1 a piece when it launched in June, but can now be bought in volume at sizable discounts. It features two Cortex M0+ cores, 264KB of on-chip RAM, and support for up to 16MB of off-chip flash memory via a QSPI bus. It was built from TSCM’s 40nm process and is available as a component for the low-powered Pi Pico board or other projects....
The advisory emphasizes that China-backed hackers actively target not just the networks of the US government and its allies but also software and hardware companies in the supply chain to steal intellectual property and gain access to sensitive networks. These hackers are an active threat to the IT and telecoms sector, the defense industrial base, and critical infrastructure owners and operators. “NSA, CISA, and FBI continue to assess [People’s Republic of China] PRC state-sponsored cyber activities as being one of the largest and most dynamic threats to U....
NBN said the main areas where lightning and floods resulted in NCD replacement were Penrith, Miranda, Frenchs Forest, Rockdale, Grafton, Mosman, Peakhurst, Glebe, and Campbelltown. The company further said, during 2020, it swapped 57,000 NCDs and so far this year it has replaced 44,300 NCDs. In March, the company said it was looking for a long-term solution to lightning frying FttC equipment, which was highlighted in the Blue Mountains area of NSW....
Off the back of that period, the NSW RFS realised it needed greater operational transparency of its 75,000 volunteers and 2,000 brigades, beyond understanding where fires and incidents were occurring. “Given that our volunteers come from every walk of life … they also have really different qualifications, and it was essential for us to have a real-time view of their skills and qualifications to help the frontline make the right decision about who to deploy in an emergency,” NSW RFS ICT project manager Emma Casime said, speaking during the virtual Gartner Data and Analytics APAC Summit on Tuesday....
What does it mean to make the cloud invisible? First, it’s important to understand the long shadow that the cloud has cast over the enterprise. Ten years after Nutanix got its start breaking down data center silos, “the new silos are the clouds,” Ramaswami told ZDNet, and “every cloud is somewhat different.” Nutanix on Tuesday released its fourth annual global Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, revealing how committed enterprises are to a multi-cloud approach in spite of ongoing challenges....
Goggles from Facebook’s Oculus unit have improved over the years, but the latest, the Meta Quest 2 model, is still not something most people want to wear around town. Glasses from Vuzix may come closer to being fashion statements, but their display capability is primitive and not anything a person wants to gaze at for extending lengths of time. Fear not, though, help may be on the way. Nvidia, with help from Stanford University, last month proposed what it calls Holographic Glasses, a prototype of which is just a tenth of an inch thick and weighs sixty grams, and can fit in normal glasses-like frames....
Our resident Windows expert, Ed Bott, has been diligent in his coverage of watching Microsoft walk itself back from compatibility commitments in its pre-release documentation to get down to the bottom of exactly which systems would be orphaned by and which ones would move forward to Windows 11. That we did not have a definitive answer from Microsoft from the get-go has added a great deal of frustration from Microsoft’s traditional loyalists....
Federal data shows that 43% of fourth and eighth graders were in remote learning in early 2021. Twenty-one percent of those students were in hybrid learning at that time. And about 52% of all higher education students took at least one online course in the 2019-2020 academic year. Is your internet acting up on a day you have an important video call or assignment due? Frustrated? Panicking? Continue reading for suggestions on what to do if you have a bad internet connection....
Unified Patents brings the fight to the trolls. It deters patent trolls from attacking its members by making it too expensive for the troll to win. The group does this by examining troll patents and their activities in various technology sectors (Zones). The Unified Patents Open Source Software Zone (OSS Zone) is the newest of these Zones. Most patent threats, 80% according to Unified Patents, come from trolls. The attacks keep mounting up....
The report sent Opendoor shares down 9% in late trading. Following the report, CFO Carrie Ann Wheeler spoke to ZDNet by phone, stating “2021 was an important breakout year for us, a record performance, and proof positive that customers are craving a certain solution, and that two, we can deliver, at scale, managing a complicated system.” Added Wheeler, “we met all the expectations, and we’re set up for more of the same in 2022; given what we guided to in Q1, we’re off to a very good start....
Oracle Cloud is trying to turn that challenge into an opportunity with a new service called Oracle Alloy. The new platform gives customers a way to use Oracle Cloud services without having to cede control over operational decisions. Customers will be able to staff the operations of the platform themselves with local citizens, for example. They’ll also be able to control the cycles of operations, such as the scheduling of software changes and updates....
Very has undergone numerous and significant transformations since its inception more than 100 years ago. Serving as a catalogue business for most of its existence under the Littlewoods brand, the company pivoted to online in 2009 and rebranded itself Very in an attempt to reinvent the business, following years of financial losses. Since then, Very has put data at the heart of everything it does. In doing so, the company has been able to leverage decades-worth of customer, financial services and inventory data, delivery records and payments information....
