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Estimated revenue of the entity made up of Indosat Ooredoo and Hutchison 3 Indonesia (H3I) is slated to be around $3 billion. Annual savings from the merger are expected to amount to $300 million to $400 million as they are realised over the next three to five years. Ooredoo Group has a 65% interest in Indosat Ooredoo through its Ooredoo Asia holding company. CK Hutchison will get half of Ooredoo Asia by swapping its stake in the merged entity for 33% of shares, and ploughing $387 million into the Asia business for the remaining 16....

Filed in Illinois’ federal court on Monday, the settlement marks the most significant action against the New York-based company to date, and reigns in a technology that has reportedly been used by Ukraine to track “people of interest” during the ongoing Russian invasion. The lawsuit was brought by the non-profit American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Mujeres Latinas en Acción, among others, in 2020 over alleged violations of an Illinois digital privacy law, with the settlement pending approval by a federal judge....

That’s the conclusion drawn by Sarah Wang and Martin Casado, partners with Silicon Valley powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz Capital Management, who say the costs of cloud on a business can be staggering. “While cloud clearly delivers on its promise early on in a company’s journey, the pressure it puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits, as a company scales and growth slows,” they wrote in a recent analysis. Of course, cost savings in merely the early benefit of cloud, which is presumably subsumed by the flexibility and agility cloud resources provide....

The history of computer science provides important context for today’s innovations. Thanks to computer science, we landed a person on the moon, connected the world with the internet, and put a portable computing device in six billion hands. In 1961, George Forsythe came up with the term “computer science.” Forsythe defined the field as programming theory, data processing, numerical analysis, and computer systems design. Only a year later, the first university computer science department was established....

The threat from beyond the stars One of the biggest obstacles faced by quantum computers is dealing with error correction. Traditionally, this has been most commonly handled by grouping together multiple qubits, the quantum equivalent of traditional computing’s bits, into a sort of committee within quantum processing units. Rather than the system relying on a single qubit, which may or may not be correct, it instead relies on the consensus provided by an entire group of qubits....

A survey of 1,000 small business owners in the UK by PayPal found that one in 10 (12%) do not expect to be in business within the year, with a further 15% unsure about the future of their business. PayPal’s Business of Change: Wellness & Empowerment Report 2022 found that more than three quarters (78%) of small businesses cite the rising cost of living to be the biggest threat to their business over the next year....

First reported by Bleeping Computer, the letter says payment card information was compromised through a card skimming device at certain Costco locations. “We recently discovered a payment card skimming device at a Costco warehouse you recently visited. Our member records indicate that you swiped your payment card to make a purchase at the affected terminal during the time the device may have been operating,” Costco said in the letter. “If unauthorized parties were able to remove information from the device before it was discovered, they may have acquired the magnetic stripe of your payment card, including your name, card number, card expiration date and CVV....

The decentralized finance (DeFi) organization is the developer of a lending protocol for individuals, with yields on offer for some cryptocurrency stakes. Assets on the platform include Ethereum (ETH), the AMP token, CREAM token, USDT, and COMP. Cream said an attacker managed to exploit a vulnerability on August 31, leading to the theft of 462,079,976 in AMP ($24.2m) tokens and 2,804.96 ETH tokens ($9.9m), according to an update posted on September 1....

Developed by students and engineers at Curtin University’s Space Science and Technology Centre, the Binar-1 CubeSat has been designed to locate and produce high resolution digital mapping of resources on the Moon’s surface. The Binar-1 is scheduled to take-off from Cape Canaveral, United States on August 28, as part of the SpaceX CRS-23 commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. Following its launch, the spacecraft will then be deployed into low-earth orbit from the International Space Station....

But just because they are in orbit, that doesn’t mean satellites are out of reach of attack: security is an ongoing concern and one that is likely to grow. Jamming and spoofing One common problem is attackers targeting the service rather than the satellites themselves. This year has seen jamming, GPS spoofing, and other cyberattacks launched against ViaSat and Starlink internet services in Ukraine – attacks that have coincided with Russia’s invasion of the country....

While the intention to build and improve cybersecurity teams is there, recent research demonstrates how businesses often make mistakes when hiring, leading to difficulties recruiting and retaining IT security staff. The number of unfilled vacancies doesn’t just make it harder for businesses to keep networks secure – it also has an impact on the people already working on cybersecurity teams, who are expected to do everything necessary to maintain network security, but with just a fraction of the required personnel....

Since then, I’ve evolved and refined the techniques each year and published it here on ZDNET. In America, Thanksgiving means parades, football, families, and food. The last two, of course, are the challenge, and here’s where my life-changing survival guide comes in. Also: Why I chose YouTube TV over the other live TV streaming services It took me well into my 30s to develop techniques that, when used together, never fail to make Thanksgiving enjoyable to me and those around me....

A protocol that allows the full potential of decentralized derivatives and borderless DeFi, Injective Protocol enables derivatives trading across blockchains using such financial products as perpetual swaps, smart contracts, and spot trading. The purpose of Injective Protocol is to provide users with decentralized and free commercial transactions. Injective incorporates both Ethereum and Cosmos blockchain ecosystems to provide a “cross-chain transaction infrastructure” without the addition of transaction costs known as “gas fees,” creating a trusted, publicly verifiable network....

The Round Rock, the Texas-based company, said on June 9 that it is building an open standards-based, cloud-native telecom ecosystem using new infrastructure, a slew of new reference architectures, key industry partners (including Red Hat, Intel, and VMware), and a dedicated 5G innovation lab – all to expand Dell’s business in the telecommunications service providers (CSPs) market. Telecommunications hardware and software was not a sector that was a mainstay for Dell previously....

Great use cases, but an architectural nightmare that calls for a new role to plan and piece it all together into a coherent and viable system. This may be someone in a relatively new role, an IoT architect, or expanding the current roles of enterprise architects. The need for architects of either stripe was recently explored in a Gartner eBook, which looked at the ingredients needed to ensure success with enterprise IoT....

Fortunately, new approaches to managing risk are also evolving to meet the challenges and bring forward-thinking technological and operational innovation to cybersecurity. DevSecOps is a mindset advocating just such an approach. Executive summary What is it? Like DevOps, DevSecOps seeks to achieve greater efficiency and productivity through team collaboration, but the DevSecOps approach incorporates security principles. Why does it matter? DevSecOps practitioners seek to work alongside developers at every step of the way, unlike traditional security approaches, which can be slow and come along too late in the deployment process....

First reported by CNN, the notice said Russia “maintains a range of offensive cyber tools that it could employ against US networks –from low-level denials-of-service to destructive attacks targeting critical infrastructure.” “We assess that Russia would consider initiating a cyber attack against the Homeland if it perceived a US or NATO response to a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine threatened its long-term national security,” the bulletin said, according to ABC News....

“It has been our experience since 2010 – as reported by our members in their daily work – that the vast majority of technology-enabled new products available today are repair-monopolised. We know this because our members are part of the worldwide network of technology repair businesses that support OEMs and independents alike,” Repair.org executive director Gay Gordon-Byrne stated in a submission [PDF] to the Australian Productivity Commission. “Repair monopolised products now include nearly all cell phones and internet communications equipment, all consumer electronics including all TVs, IOT devices, and home appliances … repair monopolies are so pervasive that for many categories of equipment, it is no longer possible to avoid monopolies through better product selection....

“Repair monopolies held by major tech companies, heavy handed Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies, and onerous restrictions on documentation, parts, and third-party repair options significantly harm Australian consumers, innovation, and the planet,” they said in a joint submission [PDF] for the Productivity Commission’s right to repair inquiry. The pair believes introducing the right to repair would be one way to address that market imbalance. “A right to repair would enable consumers to make use of an inbuilt market mechanism to counter attempts at abuse of market power,” the submission said....

Also: Tech in 2023: 6 new priorities for your shortlist The customer experience is also shifting rapidly to a digital-first engagement model that is highly personalized and real-time. Digital channels continue to dominate customer engagement, but as public health restrictions ease, it will be important for organizations to bridge new ways of engagement with tried-and-true ones. 73% percent of customers expect companies to understand their unique needs and expectations. And 68% of customers have purchased products in new ways over the past two years....