Announced last month, the new safety features were intended for inclusion in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey. The first was a feature for monitoring the Messages application, with client-side machine learning implemented to scan and alert when sexually explicit images are sent, requiring input from the user of whether or not they want to view the material. “As an additional precaution, the child can also be told that, to make sure they are safe, their parents will get a message if they do view it,” the company explained....

A new report from Canalys shows that Apple’s phones accounted for 22% of smartphone shipments globally at the end of 2021. Canalys noted that the last time Apple ranked number one in the smartphone market was in Q4 of 2020. “Apple saw unprecedented iPhone performance in Mainland China, with aggressive pricing for its flagship devices keeping the value proposition strong,” Canalys analyst Sanyam Chaurasia said in a statement. “Apple’s supply chain is starting to recover, but it was still forced to cut production in Q4 amid shortages of key components and could not make enough iPhones to meet demand....

If you’re in Google Chrome right now, take a look at the tab bar, and let your eyes slide to the right. Notice something? Yes, that arrow that points downwards. Click on it and see what it does. What you have there is a scrolling tabs list – perfect for the times when you have so many tabs open, you can’t read the titles. Not only do you get an easy-to-read list, but you also get a handy search box....

The advanced persistent threat (APT) group, believed to be located in Gaza – an area of conflict and hotbed of tension between Israel and Palestine – attacks organizations worldwide but now currently appears to be focused on entities related to Palestine’s politics. Arid Viper, also known as Desert Falcon, Two-tailed Scorpion, or APT C-23, has been around since at least 2015. In the past, the group has been responsible for spear phishing attacks against Palestinian law enforcement, the military, educational establishments, and the Israel Security Agency (ISA)....

NASA has as 69-minute launch window from 12:07am EST on November 14 to launch the the 322.4 feet-tall (98.3 metres) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and propel the un-crewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back to Earth. The US space agency plans to wheel the rocket back to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday November 4. It said inspections over the past week confirmed “minimal work” is needed to prepare the rocket and spacecraft for its return to the launch pad....

1. Agriculture AI has the potential to optimize the agricultural sector by enabling precision agriculture and automating some functions. Precision agriculture refers to the tailoring of crop inputs to the precise needs of the farm. AI and ML make this possible by collecting data and identifying patterns that help farmers best understand what needs to be implemented and how much. “Think about using data to find patterns that enable precision. For example, providing just the right amount of fertilizer to the right place in the field at the right time, which then optimizes both the cost for the farmer, but also the yield on the other side,” Roger Roberts, McKinsey expert partner, tells ZDNet....

According to the ATO, it wants the new platform to be cloud-based, so it can be used for near real-time data storage, processing, consumption, insights, and analytics. “The ATO is striving to become a more data-driven client-centric organisation, using data and analytics to improve the administration of tax and superannuation systems,” it said in tender documents. “The ATO is collecting increasingly greater volumes of data from a wide variety of sources....

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....