So, let’s say you don’t need all the bells and whistles of the Apple Watch Ultra – and, frankly, don’t want to spend $799 on a smartwatch – but one of those stretchy watch bands sounds nice for your outdoor pursuits. I have the good news… for some. Also: How to pre-order Apple Watch Series 8, SE, and Ultra and find the best deals That said, if you’re unfamiliar with what the new Ultra watch bands are and what makes them unique, here’s a rundown:...

What’s new in the M2 MacBook Air? Apple’s best-selling laptop underwent several external and internal changes, let’s take a look at them. M2 The new MacBook Air will serve as one of the debut platforms for the new M2 chip. Apple new SoC (System on a Chip) promises its new 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU will provide 18% improved performance over its M1-powered predecessor. It supports 100GB/s of unified memory bandwidth, allowing it to handle as much as 24GB of unified memory for “more complex workloads....

The tech giant published revisions to the advisory on February 17. Adobe originally issued an out-of-band patch on February 13 to resolve CVE-2022-24086, a critical pre-auth vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code. CVE-2022-24086 has been issued a CVSS severity score of 9.8. Adobe said the security flaw was being actively exploited “in very limited attacks targeting Adobe Commerce merchants.” Now, Adobe has added a further vulnerability to the advisory, CVE-2022-24087....

Also: CES 2023 tech you can actually buy now Withings adds a toilet bowl sensor to its health lineup First, Withings announced its launch of U-Scan, a palm-sized scanner that attaches straight into your toilet’s bowl. Two cartridges will be available to check various stats: a nutrition and metabolic tracker that checks pH, ketone, vitamin C levels, and more; and a second one to help track women’s luteinizing hormone for ovulation cycles....

The Nothing Phone 1, as the name implies, is the first smartphone from the UK-based startup, Nothing. Through cheeky marketing strategies and a pledge to make technology fun again (was technology ever not fun?), the company has built a cult following since its debut nearly one year ago, securing more than $70 million in Series B funding, and has clearly turned Nothing into something. I’ve reviewed numerous smartphones at ZDNET, and I have purchased far too many to count in previous years, but there’s an excitement to the Nothing Phone 1 that I haven’t felt in a while....

SEE: A cloud company asked security researchers to look over its systems. Here’s what they found Intel said at the time “all of the largest cloud service providers” plan to offer Ice Lake-powered cloud services in 2021. Now Google Cloud, the third largest public cloud provider behind AWS and Microsoft Azure, is officially onboard with the 3rd generation Ice Lake Xeon Scalable processors. Google Cloud announced the new Ice Lake Compute Engine instances ahead of its ‘Next 21 online conference scheduled to begin on October 12....

Talking to journalists on Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said now was not the time for his company to look at doing the same. “Ray tracing games are quite large, to be honest. The data set is quite large, and there’ll be a time for it,” Huang said. “When the time is right we might consider it.” The alternate route onto mobile, according to Huang, is Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service, which launched at the start of 2020....

Now, Onyx has adopted the E Ink Kaleido Plus colour screen, which offers 4,096 colours on a low-power panel. The 7.8-inch Onyx Boox Nova Air C couples this with Android 11 and stylus-based input. It promises four weeks of battery life in standby mode and costs $419.99/£399.99. Apart from the colour on its screen when the device is switched off, the Nova Air C looks like many other e-readers. It measures 136....

OpenAI on Wednesday also introduced an API for Whisper, the speech-to-text model the AI research company open-sourced in September 2022. Also: How does ChatGPT work? A number of major companies are already using the ChatGPT API, OpenAI said, including Snapchat, Instacart, and Shopify. Instacart will use the conversational AI technology to help customers build shopping lists from their open-ended questions, such as, “What’s a healthy lunch for my kids?” Shopify, meanwhile, will integrate ChatGPT technology into Shop, the consumer app that shoppers use to find different products and brands....

The first is SatOffice Direct To Home Voice Over IP, which Optus described as being dial tone over satellite and allows for calls like a regular copper line. The second uses a femtocell with 4G satellite backhaul that can provide mobile coverage up to 1km from an antenna typically placed on a homestead roof. Optus said it has already deployed this approach at 49 sites as part of the mobile blackspot program....

In an advisory published June 24, the hardware vendor said that My Book Live and My Book Live Duo network-attached storage (NAS) devices are being remotely wiped through factory resets, leaving users at risk of losing all of their stored data. “Western Digital has determined that some My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices are being compromised through exploitation of a remote command execution vulnerability,” the company said....

According to court documents obtained by Brian Krebs, Andrew Schober lost 16.4552 in Bitcoin (BTC) in 2018 after his computer was infected with malware, allegedly the creation of two teenagers in the United Kingdom. The complaint (.PDF), filed in Colorado, accuses Benedict Thompson and Oliver Read, who were minors at the time, of creating clipboard malware. The malicious software, designed to monitor cryptocurrency wallet addresses, was downloaded and unwittingly executed by Schober after he clicked on a link, posted to Reddit, to install the Electrum Atom cryptocurrency application....

Wrapped in Indigenous artwork to reflect the stars in the skies, the supercomputer is named after the scientific name for the quokka, Setonix. The first stage is expected to increase the centre’s compute power by 45% at one-fifth of the size compared with its predecessor systems, Magnus and Galaxy, which are also housed at the Pawsey Centre. When fully operational, Setonix is expected to deliver up to 30 times more compute power – 50 petaflops – and eventually deliver at least 200Gb/sec of bandwidth into every compute node, and 800Gb/sec into the GPU nodes....

Golf is a world-renowned pastime that can be difficult to schedule. But this Father’s Day, you can give a dad in your life the gift of an immersive golf experience without leaving home. The SLX MicroSim is a lifelike home golf simulator that clips a sensor directly to your clubs for a familiar feel and a true-to-life simulated game. During our Father’s Day Sale, the SLX MicroSim is on sale for $189....

This morning, Plex began notifying users via email of a data breach. According to the company: In its statement, Plex said, “All account passwords that could have been accessed were hashed and secured in accordance with best practices.” The company also said that no credit card or other payment data were at risk, because that data isn’t stored on the company’s servers. The company is requiring a password reset for all its customers....

The Poco F4 GT runs on Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, and has a 120Hz refresh rate alongside 120W fast charging which, it is claimed, will charge the handset’s 4700mAh battery in 17 minutes. There are several features designed specifically for gamers, including pop-up triggers. But is this a handset with appeal beyond gamers? The 6.67-inch Poco F4 GT has a footprint 76.7mm wide by 162.5mm deep, is 8....

In practical terms, this could set off huge changes in the expanding AMR market and the upstart enterprise drone market. Currently, the space is dominated by a handful of robotics firms that build AMRs or drone-in-a-box solutions and lease them on an as-a-service model. A robust developer’s kit and underlying robotics architecture from Qualcomm could open up the playing field, leading to more customer-specific customization and enterprise in-house robotics development....

Qualys Cloud Agent is a lightweight software agent. Typically it uses about 2% of CPU resources with bursts of up to 5%. Once in place, it takes a full configuration assessment of its host while running in the background and uploading that snapshot to the Qualys Cloud Platform. The agent itself is self-updating and self-healing, so you need never reinstall or reboot it to keep the latest version up and running....

That last one is perhaps the more interesting for ZDNet’s readers, as it’s how you can start to feed aircraft location data into a growing network of tracking stations that uses the GPS locations most aircraft transmit to build a global map of air traffic. This approach, ADS-B, is intended to make it easier for aircraft to locate each other and for air traffic control to keep track of them....

Ultimately, as difficult as it was to relinquish the gravy train that was application development and infrastructure maintenance-IT bread-and-butter for decades, IT majors have seemingly come around to realising that the cloud and digital is going to be their future. Companies from Infosys to TCS, Cognizant and Wipro, and even mid-tier firms like Tech Mahindra or HCL, all seemed to have finally begun putting more and more of their focus and resources into architecting digital solutions along with design consulting chops....