The attribution marked the first time NATO had publicly attributed an attack to China. Spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Lijian Zhao hit back and labelled the United States as the world’s top hacking empire. “The US ganged up with its allies to make groundless accusations out of thin air against China on the cybersecurity issue. This act confuses right with wrong and smears and suppresses China out of political purpose....

Issued on Monday by the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) and six other government agencies, Xinhua News Agency said the order was made as part of efforts to improve the rights given to food delivery riders. Addressing how algorithms should be used when assessing food delivery rider performance, the SAMR reportedly said the “strictest algorithms” should not be used as an assessment requirement and delivery time requirements should be appropriately relaxed....

The combined revenue of the top ten foundries, which produce the silicon wafers that constitute the basis of finished semiconductors, has reached a record high of $22.75 billion in the first quarter of 2021, according to market research firm TrendForce. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the demand for semiconductors has sky-rocketed. Companies deployed laptops and smartphones to their newly-remote employees, schools and universities brought learning programs online, and users stuck at home turned to tablets, games consoles and TVs to busy themselves during months of lockdown....

During CES this year, Chipolo unveiled a new tracker with the same Find My licensing. Aptly named, the CARD Spot was pitched as a slim, card-shaped wallet finder and sold for $35. I got a chance to test it out over the past few weeks, leaving my wallet (with the card inside) at a local park, a friend’s house, and at home, seeing just how reliable the CARD Spot was at keeping my money in check....

There aren’t any bonus categories to be aware of, nor is there an annual fee to be concerned about either. You could even use it to avoid interest charges on another card by taking advantage of its long introductory APR balance transfer offer. But be aware that there is a balance transfer fee. However, that fee would likely pale in comparison to the money you’d save from interest charges accruing on another card, depending on the size of the balance....

In a statement, the company said its planned shipments for Wednesday would be delayed about two to four days throughout the country due to the attack; reorders are expected to resume within the next 72 hours. The delays will also affect international retailers. The company said it was dealing with a ransomware attack affecting its order processing systems as well as its internal communications platforms. “Our IT department and a team of third-party experts are working around the clock to address these issues and restore full operations,” Diamond Comic Distributors said....

We currently are knee deep in the snows of a crypto winter. Panic selling is running amok, bringing freezing temperatures to a once heated crypto marketplace. Rug pulls of NFTs seemingly are a daily occurrence, and downward fever lines are colored red across the board. In this crypto winter, Bitcoin, for example, plunged from an all-time high of $69,044 a coin in November down to a dismal $17,745 this June; Terra – now Terra Classic – was riding high in May but shot down in June to zero; Voyager went bankrupt; and the mega hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (or 3AC) went MIA....

Starting June 1, the Ruby Steel and Royal Indigo/Jade Green cards will have a monthly rewards cap of $25 and $50 respectively. The limits will reset on the first of every calendar month. The card rewards will also be dramatically lowered. Initially, the company was also planning to remove CRO staking rewards completely, further limiting the card’s utility. However, following community backlash, crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek took to Twitter to address the changes....

Put an end to all the complaints of dropped Zoom calls, poor streaming, Wi-Fi dead spots around the home, and gaming sessions being interrupted because of poor connections. Throw away your rubbish router and install a MeshForce M3 Mesh system that will cover up to 4,500 sq.ft of area with solid, reliable Wi-Fi. And you can pick up the whole system in the Cyber Monday sales for just under $99!...

SanDisk 512GB Extreme microSDXC highlights Up to 130MB/s write speeds for fast shooting 4K and 5K UHD-ready with UHS Speed Class 3 (U3) and Video Speed Class 30 (V30) Rated A2 for faster loading and in-app performance (A2 performance is 4000 read IOPS, 2000 write IOPS) STARTRC Drone Landing Pad Pro 20" x 20" foldable drone landing pad can provide the best take-off and landing surface in any environment Double-sided color designCome with a waterproof storage bag for easy storage and transport outdoors....

Also: Live blog: The best early Cyber Monday deals 2022 in real time With the advanced technology within iRobot devices, this robot vacuum can connect to various iRobot vacuums to work together and both vacuum and mop your floors at the same time. Depending on which pad you have on the robot mop, the machine can provide a different mode of cleaning. In the box, 2 single-use wet mopping pads and dry mopping pads are included as well as a washable wet mopping pad....

The Sony A80J is arguably one of the best-priced OLED models on the market as of right now. With XR OLED Contrast and XR TRILUMINOS PRO color, it features a bright, clear, and simply gorgeous life-like picture. All pictures will be in 4K HD – and for older content, it automatically upscales. Also: The best Cyber Monday TV deals For gamers, it’s also going to have what you need to take your gaming to the next level....

During the SPHERE cybersecurity conference on June 1, WithSecure Chief Research Officer (CRO) Mikko Hyppönen told attendees that several themes are likely to heavily impact future generations’ security alongside how consumer and enterprise devices are managed and protected. Dependence on connectivity “We are living in a technological revolution, although it can be kind of hard to see just how big,” Hyppönen told reporters. “The internet is the best – and worst – thing to happen during our time....

Both companies would collaborate on relevant blockchain initiatives and work with existing as well as potential businesses within the BAS community, the partners said in a joint statement Wednesday. Called Acentrik, the data marketplace was first conceptualised in 2020 as a decentralised platform for organisations to harness and monetise their data with “trust and efficiency”, said Daimler. Underpinned with blockchain technology, the automotive maker said the data platform would facilitate the exchange of data with privacy and security....

Asked if we’re at a point where every business will employ or need someone in data science — if they don’t already — Michelle McSweeney, Codecademy’s data science domain manager, answered simply and emphatically. “Yes. Full stop. I don’t think I can emphasize that enough — that almost every job is a data job.” And there are a lot of those jobs available right now. In fact, Glassdoor had more than 10,000 data scientist job postings as of publication....

The Redshifts, Synapses, Snowflakes, and BigQueries of the world have been positioned as modern cloud, hyperscale alternatives with pay as you go pricing that should provide more economic alternatives to legacy Teradata platforms. For many, functionality gaps or requirements to change source code and/or schema have been the show-stoppers for migration. Naturally, there’s a startup that thinks it has the answer to that. Datometry says that the answer isn’t data virtualization, but database virtualization....

Deloitte Consulting will be delivering the first phase of the modernisation of the national digital health infrastructure project underway by the ADHA. The contract is for the “health information gateway”, which the agency described as a “pivotal piece of national digital health enabling technology that provides a secure and scalable platform for exchanging and accessing health information, including priority areas such as vaccinations and aged care data”. “The new gateway unlocks the agency’s ability to deploy and manage additional health information repositories and health data exchanges in support of national priorities for healthcare delivery and digitising government services, now and into the future,” it said....

Or these days, perhaps you just hope for them. Currently, airline travel is a gamble that involves hoping your flight won’t be canceled, the security lines won’t stretch back to the taxi line, no flight attendant will consider your clothing inappropriate, and no halfwit will try to make a “political” statement mid-flight. Many are exercising tolerance. But for some, it’s in short supply. Especially for the well-traveled businesspeople trying either to relax or even just work at the airport....

According to a report by hiring platform Hiretual, organizations are doing little to boost diversity within their software teams. Analysis of candidate searches made via its platform between January 1st and July 31st this year found that just 15% of searches applied a diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) filter to find developers from Black, Hispanic, Asian or Native American backgrounds. In the US tech hub of San Francisco, just 9% of searches were for Black software engineers, 7% for Hispanic or Latinx candidates, 6% for Native American, and 3% for candidates from Asian backgrounds, the company’s data found....

IDC is expecting spending in this category to grow 5.7% in 2022 and 5.2% in 2023 and is projecting a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.2% from today, compared to its previous forecast of 4.9% in April 2022. The analyst said it remains “cautiously optimistic” for this market segment due to better-than-expected results from vendors in the first two quarters of 2022 – as seen in revenue, bookings and pipelines – as well as growth in the hybrid workplace and cloud adoption spawned by the pandemic....