Microsoft “will take additional steps as this situation continues to evolve,” Smith said in his post.

Two years after it bought LinkedIn, Microsoft bought Glint, makers of employee-management software, in 2018 for an undisclosed amount. Glint’s tools were designed to help executives obtain an internal view of employee engagement and skills and to make suggestions based on that information. Glint has been part of the LinkedIn business at Microsoft since Microsoft bought it. Microsoft officials said existing Glint customers will continue to get service and support from LinkedIn for the time being....

Those products worked well with the Apple iPhone 11 Pro and launched as a Kickstarter campaign. Peak Design now has a full collection of mounts and accessories for Apple (iPhone 11, 12, and 13), Samsung (S21 and S22), and Google (Pixel 6 and 6 Pro) smartphones in its Mobile by Peak Design collection. We used seven items from the Mobile by Peak Design collection with the iPhone 13 Pro Max and even after testing out other mobile products, we keep coming back to the Peak Design offerings....

First reported by CNN, the partnership will see Moody’s invest $250 million in BitSight, and the cybersecurity company will acquire Moody’s cyber risk ratings venture VisibleRisk, which they created with global venture group Team8. In a statement, Moody’s CEO Rob Fauber said organizations need a way to accurately measure and quantify cyber risk and exposure as they continue to invest in cyber defense and resilience. “Creating transparency and enabling trust is at the core of Moody’s mission – to help organizations assess complex, interconnected risks and make more informed decisions,” Fauber said....

The open-sourced Log4j scanner is derived from scanners created by other members of the open source community, and it is designed to help organizations identify potentially vulnerable web services affected by the Log4j vulnerabilities. CISA said it modified a Log4J scanner created by security company FullHunt and got help from other researchers like Philipp Klaus and Moritz Bechler. The repository provides a scanning solution for CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046. CISA said it supports DNS callback for vulnerability discovery and validation while providing fuzzing for HTTP POST Data parameters, fuzzing for JSON data parameters, and support for lists of URLs....

Twitter had previously claimed that fake or spam accounts made up fewer than 5% of its monetisable daily active users during the first quarter – an estimate questioned by Musk. First reported by Bloomberg, the Tesla CEO on Monday told the All-In Summit in Miami that if the bot and spam issue proves to be worse than indicated by Twitter, a deal at a lower price point would potentially be tabled....

Update: Dying stars, clouds on exoplanets: What the James Webb Space Telescope revealsJoe Biden shares the deepest infrared image of the universe ever taken “This is farther than humanity has ever looked before,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson recently said, calling the telescope and its images “nothing short of a real scientific feat.” While NASA was slated to release the images on Tuesday, President Joe Biden was honoured to share the first image on Monday at the White House....

Singtel-subsidiary and systems integrator NCS said Friday the Eighty20 acquisition would bolster support for customers Down Under in their digital transformation efforts, offering services that spanned cloud, workplace modernisation, and business applications. A Microsoft Gold Partner, Eighty20’s portfolio included Azure cloud deployment and application modernisation. Its customer base encompassed the likes of Woolworths, TPG, and New South Wales Department of Education. The acquisition followed three others NCS announced last month that included another Australian cloud services vendor, Riley, which service offerings were specialised on Google platforms and comprised cloud-native transformation, data supply chain, and cloud operations....

The new suite responds to customer demand for more digitized and more automated processes, so teams don’t have to spend time on things like manually processing vendor payments. “Ultimately, our customers are saying, ‘I want to get paid faster,’” Jason Maynard, NetSuite’s SVP of Global Field Operations, said to ZDNet. “Small businesses live and die by cash flow. We’ve taken a view of how do we accelerate their cash collection processes, how do we help them spend more wisely....

For $330, you get a wellness tracking Smart Sock, a 2k resolution camera,, a charger and an app to track everything – and no monthly subscription fee for accessing your data. The star of the show is the S340 Smart Sock which keeps track of your baby’s sleep data including heart rate, sleep status and movements. The Smart Sock uses a Fresnel lens, providing more accurate readings that you can access on the eufy Baby app at no additional cost....

The research team, made up by Hui Peng from Purdue University and Mathias Payer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, said all the bugs were discovered with a new tool they created, named USBFuzz. The tool is what security experts call a fuzzer. Fuzzers are applications that let security researchers send large quantities of invalid, unexpected, or random data as inputs to other programs. Security researchers then analyze how the tested software behaves to discover new bugs, some of which may be exploited in a malicious way....

He would return to the station, print his shots, then make multiple copies of the best quality image that would be distributed to police officers, among dozens of other shots, with hopes of finding out the identity of the individual talking to a known criminal. “I would zoom in, crop, print off 50 copies of that, and I would stick those in the internal dispatch system and I would send them out to every detective agency in the state and say, ‘Right, we need to know who this is’,” Chadwick told ZDNet....

Google Meet, like Microsoft Teams and Zoom, has seen a massive uptick in use throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Meet is the last of the Google Workspace apps to end support for IE 11, while Microsoft is itself also phasing out support for it on Microsoft 365/Office 365 apps like Outlook for the web and Teams for the web. Google Workspace apps, such as Docs, Sheets and Slides, stopped working on IE 11 on March 15, but Google gave Meet a slightly longer IE 11 support window....

Asus highlighted six new devices in the premium Zenbook range, headed by the flagship 16-inch Zenbook Pro 16X OLED. Two of the new Zenbooks are thin-and-light 13-inch Zenbook S-series laptops. The more mainstream Vivobook range gets multiple new models, including high-performance Pro systems and thin/light S series devices. There are also two limited-edition artist versions of the existing Vivobook 13 Slate OLED 2-in-1 detachable. 2022 Zenbooks The 2022 Zenbooks feature a new look that Asus calls ‘modern Zen’ and run on 12th-generation Intel Core H-series processors or AMD Ryzen 6000-series chips....

A few years ago, the phrase digital wallet would also be a mystery to most of us. Digital wallets, such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay, are rapidly replacing credit cards and cash for purchases both in the real world and online. Digital wallets aren’t just about contactless payment, though. They’re also replacing driver’s licenses, boarding passes, and even library cards. Everything you used to do from the wallet in your back pocket can be done now from digital wallets....

The Oppo Find X5 Pro has a distinctive design with the camera array at the back sitting in an irregularly shaped, raised area that looks like it has been moulded out of the rest of the chassis rather than, as is more usual, inserted into a cut-out. You may remember this moulded approach from the review of last year’s Oppo Find X3 Pro. The X5 Pro is that handset’s successor, as Oppo has omitted an X4 range....

The changes imposed by the crisis meant that 68% of the companies surveyed in the the IDC Latin America IT Investment Trends 2021 study want to increase productivity by 2022, following by reducing costs (50%), retaining customers (41%) and introduce new products/services (36%). “Between 2008 and 2015, increased productivity and customer loyalty were not on the priority list of companies that were led by cost reduction, but this has changed in recent years”, said IDC Brazil’s research and consulting manager Luciano Saboia....

Ergo mice are traditionally on the larger end of the scale, with very few exceptions. Iconic ergos include models like Razer’s Basilisk line, Zowie’s EC series, and various entries in Logitech’s G500 and G600/700 series. These are traditionally hand-filling affairs that require large mitts and/or a palm grip to correctly control. They also tend to be heavy, at least relative to the sub-70g weight most symmetrical mice launch at these days....

As part of an EU-funded project called AQTION, a group of scientists from the University of Innsbruck in Austria successfully set up a fully functional ion trap quantum computer into two 19-inch server racks, as typically found in data centers around the world. The device only requires a single wall-mounted power plug and is otherwise self-contained. The prototype is an exciting development in an industry that relies mostly on lab-based implementations, where quantum computers can only be controlled thanks to purpose-built infrastructure....

According to analysis by cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint, 58% of organisations infected with ransomware paid a ransom to cyber criminals for the decryption key – and in many cases, they paid up more than once. Law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity experts warn organisations against paying ransoms, because not only is there no guarantee that the supplied decryption key will work, giving in to ransom demands just encourages more ransomware attacks as it shows cyber criminals that the attacks work....