The aim of the Lapsus$ campaign appears to be soliciting ransom payments, with threats to leak stolen information if its extortion demands aren’t met. While this tactic is a familiar one, often used by ransomware gangs as extra leverage to force victims to pay a ransom for a decryption key, in the case of Lapsus$, there’s no sign that ransomware is part of the attacks because no data is encrypted....

But now that iPadOS has been released, we have the full picture… and yes, you need to update, and do it promptly. Must read: Don’t make this common, fatal iPhone or Android mistake We already knew that the Wi-Fi bug that could cause denial of service was addressed, but there are over two dozen more bugs fixed in these releases. For example, there are four WebKit bugs, three of which could cause a malicious webpage to run code....

The freshly updated Notepad app with native Arm64 support is rolling out now to Windows Insiders on Windows 11 Microsoft’s Dev, Beta and Release Preview channels. The Arm64 Notepad app should be a faster and better performing app on Windows 11, according to Microsoft. Users can try it by updating to versions 11.2204 and higher, according to Microsoft’s Windows Insiders blog which notes: “We are rolling out changes to Notepad that we think the community will enjoy....

The new feature comes via the Phone Link (formerly Your Phone) app for connecting Windows 11 PCs with smartphones. It should come in handy when you’re traveling and need to quickly access your smartphone’s internet connection. If the phone is within range, it appears in the PC’s list of available Wi-Fi networks. One click turns on the phone’s hotspot and the PC connects to it. The new Windows 11 feature takes a leaf from the MacOS notification that offers a hotspot connection to an iPhone....

That tradition crossed a threshold on Tuesday with the release of OpenAI’s GPT-4 program, the latest technology in a line of programs that form the heart of the wildly popular ChatGPT chatbot. Also: Want to experience GPT-4? Just use Bing Chat In the GPT-4 technical report published Tuesday, alongside the blog post by OpenAI, the firm states that it is refraining from offering technical details because of competitive and safety considerations....

The “DevOps Fundamentals” course alone can transform you into quite the proficient IT specialist for a really quick career switch. Cloud-based capabilities and Kubernetes will be reviewed, plus much more. There’s nothing like an official certification to make your resume stand out among the crowd of job competitors, and “Certified Blockchain Solutions Architect (CBSA)” will prep you for the Blockchain Training Alliance Certified Blockchain Solutions Architect exam. It explains what to expect before and after the exam, as well as its subject matter....

Virtual Banking for tenants enables Xspaced’s FlexRent tool, which allows tenants to split their rent into smaller payments over a month independently from landlords registering on the platform. “Since launching FlexRent last year, we’ve continuously heard from tenants that they would like to have more flexibility when it comes to paying rent and from landlords that they want to keep their current rent collection system,” says Alex Pelin, co-founder at Xspaced....

The health predispositions part of the test is crucial. It provides insight into your chances of developing certain health conditions, like type 2 diabetes, late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, and celiac disease. You can also figure things out like your genetic weight, muscle composition, and alcohol flush reaction. It all starts when you receive a DNA collection kit in the mail. Spit in the provided tube, register your kit with the barcode, and mail the saliva sample back to the lab with the prepaid package....

Also: How to use split-screen on iPad (and why you should) First, LiDAR helps the camera take sharper photos, especially in dark conditions. Second, the scanner taps into AR, or augmented reality, to combine the real world and the virtual world. With AR, your phone or tablet can act as a virtual tape measure, show you how new furniture would look in your home, scan and recreate 3D models, and place you into AR games....

Now, an app called Natural seeks to go beyond what agents such as Siri and Alexa can achieve in terms of transactions while remaining wed to the smartphone’s – or any connected device’s – touchscreen. A request using Natural’s “generative interface” begins similarly enough to those of other voice agents, with a verbal or typed command such as, “Order some Chinese food” or “Book me a flight to San Francisco....

(A screenshot from an American video) They’d like you to move by the vast possibilities the future holds. No, not flights on time, plenty of staff and instant customer service. Instead, they’d like you to be moved by how wonderful travel will be in the future. Some undetermined time in the future, that is. Why Delta is promising it may have free wifi that actually works. Sometime soon. Meanwhile, American Airlines tried to make a vast impact last week by announcing it’s investing in 20 wonderful new planes....

You’ve managed to avoid the sort of customer service and PR nightmare that has bedeviled one of your biggest rivals. Things are going well. You’re telling CBNC that things are going great. Also: Flighty is a must-have iOS app for air travel Then along come your employees to tell you that you may be full of wind. Then along come those employees expressing themselves in public about your alleged windfulness....

This seems the troubling conclusion as American’s pilots continue the battering of their own management. In public. Yes, even on social media. The pilots’ union, the Allied Pilots Association, has consistently been adorning Twitter and YouTube with messages that suggest you may not want to fly American Airlines this summer. Surely a misinterpretation, you might think. But what would you make of the pilots musing recently: “Traveling with American Airlines?...

This year, most of the predictions were not about particular technologies, like Hadoop, Kafka or Spark. And they weren’t even about tech genre issues like the battle between data warehouses and data lakes. Instead, this year’s predictions (for next year) focused on broader business or even societal issues, many of which stem from the world’s collective experience of the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic and the changes it has imposed. Technology’s in there, of course; for example, there was a lot of discussion of artificial intelligence (AI), low code/no code platforms and architectural approaches to analytics, like Data Fabric and Data Mesh....

Government officials told the newspaper that the 75-year old was being held in Brians 2 prison in Sant Esteve de Sesrovires when guards found him dead and were unable to resuscitate him. El Dario confirmed the announcement. “The judicial procession has traveled to the prison and is investigating the causes of death. Everything indicates that it could be a death by suicide,” the statement said, according to El Dario. While the initial notice from the regional Catalan government did not name McAfee, a source within the Catalan government confirmed it was him to the Associated Press....

The forthcoming meeting, reported by Bloomberg, concerns America’s resilience to major cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, which Biden has told Russian president Vladimir Putin should be “off limits”. In July, Biden said he believed that if US engaged in a “real shooting war” it would be in response to a major cyber attack. US government agencies and critical infrastructure providers have faced numerous ransomware and espionage attacks during the pandemic, including the SolarWinds software supply chain espionage attack, and ransomware attacks against Colonial Pipeline, Kaseya, and meat packer JBS....

And data loss is one of the worst kinds of issues to be facing. Must read: iOS 13: Security and privacy settings you need to tweak and check Here’s the deal. Apple’s new Reminders app for iOS 13, iPadOS, and macOS 10.15 Catalina isn’t compatible with earlier versions of iOS and macOS. Problem is, the current release version of macOS is the earlier version, so while you can upgrade your iPhones and iPads to use the new Reminders, your Mac will be left out of the equation....

I’m guilty of spending way too much time obsessing over the latest smartphone trends, looking for features that are going to shape and change the way many of us live in the near future. The problem with this line of thinking is that there’s an entire segment of users left out. Users who don’t care about having the best technology, but simply want a phone that’s going to give them a way to communicate with jobs, loved ones and friends for the next few years, without costing a fortune....

VPN provider Atlas estimates that Safari now has just over one billion users, accounting for about 19% of all internet users. Google Chrome remains the clear leader with an estimated 3.4 billion users, but both Safari and Chrome users far outnumber their nearest rivals. Chromium-based Microsoft Edge has just under 213 million users, while Mozilla Firefox has 178 million users, and Samsung Internet has 149 million users. “The statistics are based on the GlobalStats browser market share percentage, which was then converted into numbers using the Internet World Stats internet user metric to retrieve the exact numbers,” Atlas VPN clarified....

Come the launch of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, iPhone and iPad users will get this exact choice. Must read: Apple should fix this privacy issue, not try to keep it quiet The page listing the features for both iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 outlines the change. Here is the relevant bit from the iOS 15 page: The iPadOS 15 page contains similar language. Of course, there are questions around this....