First, to be clear, I am no expert when it comes to coronaviruses of any kind, or epidemiology, medical practices etc. I am someone, like most of you reading this, being affected by the dramatic outbreak of this novel coronavirus. So, as a person in our industry, I’m doing a lot of research and reading and am basically of the same mind as Ray Wang and others – this is not a reason to freak out and panic....

“We have to do better. Keep pressuring us and keep telling your story,” Taylor told a room of women at a Western Sydney Women International Women’s Day STEM event on Wednesday. Taylor continued saying that while government can “do lots of things” such as provide grants, establish programs, and talk about STEM, the “most powerful thing” that can be done is addressing the gender issue at grassroots level by women, who are already in the STEM field, voicing their concerns....

Rajiv Mirani, chief technology officer at Nutanix, told ZDNet that their customers are looking for cloud solutions that can adapt to their needs, with a focus on simplicity, flexibility and freedom to choose the right technology for each situation. “The Nutanix Cloud Platform continues to break down common silos within IT teams with the goals of simplifying operations so customers can focus on business needs. With these new features, we focused on addressing the common challenges many enterprises face in hybrid multi-cloud environments, including security, DR and virtual networking,” Mirani said....

The AGD began its review into the country’s Privacy Act at the end of 2020 as part of the Commonwealth’s response to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Digital Platforms Inquiry, which found the laws needed to be updated to adequately protect consumers and their data. Among those measures [PDF] recommended by the OAIC is a central obligation to collect, use, and disclose personal information fairly and reasonably for entities under the scope of Australia’s Privacy Principles (APP)....

Also: OLED vs LED: What’s the difference? OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) TVs, on the other hand, do not use backlighting systems. Instead, self-illuminating individual pixels create a virtually blur-free picture, no matter your viewing angle. Each pixel has its own LED bulb that can dim for enhanced contrast or shut off completely to create a true black. Let’s get into the reasons why you should buy an OLED TV over a QLED TV – and vice versa....

Also: The best AI art generators: DALL-E 2 and other fun alternatives to try Now images, which had achieved substantial fakery thanks to programs such as Nvidia’s StyleGAN, introduced by Tero Karras and colleagues at Nvidia in 2019, got a boost this summer with the announcement by OpenAI of a new program for faking images, DALL•E 2, which builds upon the first DALL•E, released in January of 2021. It can take a phrase you type and convert it into an image, with lots of ways to shape the output image....

The initial launches – which began late last year and skewed into early this year, thanks to some regulatory infighting between the FAA and FCC – saw both carriers launching their first mid-band spectrum deployments of the 5G era. They joined T-Mobile, which had already been operating its 2.5GHz, nationwide 5G network for two years. Now that AT&T and Verizon Wireless have joined the mid-band spectrum party, Opensignal measured the impact of each carrier’s C-Band rollout on their nationwide performance within its new Quantifying the impact of C-band on 5G mobile experience in the U....

Dubbed Operation 404, the initiative is in its fourth iteration. On June 21, the Brazilian authorities arrested at least a dozen individuals across various states nationwide, with several false profiles and pages on social media taken down. Some 266 illegal sites also were deactivated, in addition to 53 sites from the United Kingdom and six from the United States. More than 700 streaming apps and 461 music apps, with millions of active users, were blocked....

Optus said in a statement Monday that Deloitte’s “independent external review” of the breach would encompass the telco’s security systems, controls, and processes. It added that the move was supported by the board of its parent company Singtel, which had been “closely monitoring” the situation. Elaborating on Deloitte’s forensic assessment, Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin said: “This review will help ensure we understand how it occurred and how we can prevent it from occurring again....

Specifically, MySQL Autopilot uses internalized machine learning to assist users for some tasks, and applies closed-loop automation to handle others. It assists users by making recommendations on how to provision and load the database, and implements closed-loop automation for failure handling/error recovery and query execution. And with machine learning, Autopilot can iteratively improve query plans based on results from other similar, different queries. The latest release of MySQL HeatWave also increases cluster sizing to 64, more than doubling capacity limits to 32-TByte instances, and raises scalability by 20%....

The text message scam delivers FluBot, a form of Android malware that steals passwords, bank details and other sensitive information from infected smartphones. FluBot also exploits permissions on the device to spread itself to other victims, allowing the infection chain to continue. While the links can be delivered to iPhones, FluBot can’t infect Apple devices. FluBot attacks have commonly come in the form of text messages that claim the recipient has missed a delivery, asking them to click a link to install an app to organise a redelivery....

It might sound like hyperbole, but this time around it’s on the mark. Exynos chipset vulnerability The first vulnerability (and decidedly the worst) affects Exynos modems. There are four vulnerabilities that can cause serious problems with the Exynos hardware such that, even without user interaction, a hacker would only need to know your phone number to create an exploit and compromise your phone remotely. Also: The best Android phones The known devices that are affected by these vulnerabilities are:...

Pearson already owned a 20% stake in the digital workforce credentialing platform worth about $40 million, but it is now buying the entire company through existing cash and available liquidity. Credly has more than 2,000 customers that use the platform to “award employees and workers trusted digital credentials that verify their skills and help connect them with the right opportunities.” The company offers a tool designed to “help businesses recruit, engage, and develop their workforce, with a skills-based approach to talent management that operates at enterprise scale....

Thiel will continue to serve on the board until the company’s annual shareholder meeting, Meta announced in a press release. “It has been a privilege to work with one of the great entrepreneurs of our time. Mark Zuckerberg’s intelligence, energy, and conscientiousness are tremendous. His talents will serve Meta well as he leads the company into a new era,” Thiel said. The New York Times first reported the role departure on Monday, with Meta confirming the news hours later....

Prezi CEO Jim Szafranski explained that the next phase of the hybrid office will require more flexibility in how people communicate, meaning video conferencing, messaging and collaboration tools must “coexist seamlessly.” “We’re constantly developing new features to give our platform better ways to share engaging content on video, and adding Google Slides to Prezi Video was the next step in improving hybrid meetings,” Szafranski said. “Now on Prezi Video, you can share any type of content on the screen of any type of video meeting without disconnecting from your colleagues....

On Tuesday, the cybersecurity firm said that a US federal jury had unanimously found that Vade Secure, a French email security firm also known as Vade, had “willfully and maliciously misappropriated over a dozen trade secrets and infringed copyrights belonging to Proofpoint,” alongside its Cloudmark subsidiary. The court case, filed in California in 2019 and culminating in a three-week trial, was the result of a Proofpoint complaint alleging that the former VP of Gateway Technology at Cloudmark, Olivier Lemarié, shared trade secrets with Vade when he joined the firm in 2017....

Luckily, gifts aren’t the only thing on deep discount as Black Friday approaches. For a limited time, ZDNet readers can get a lifetime subscription to this effective VPN. KeepSolid’s VPN Unlimited service Deal price: $19.99 | Original price: $199 If you’ve never used a VPN before, KeepSolid is remarkably easy to install and fire up. That doesn’t mean it’s a bare bones service, however. This VPN gets consistently high marks from tech sites for both its wide infrastructure of servers and a no-log policy that keeps your data safe from everyone on the web — even the VPN itself....

My only major complaint was that I didn’t like the dark blue and dark gray on black interface. There’s no reason the tabs and settings had to be that difficult to read. But that one complaint aside, I strongly recommend taking a look at this very solid VPN offering. Proton VPN specifications Proton VPN has a free plan. This is relatively unusual for the fee-to-play VPN providers. Usually, the free providers have their own monetization approaches and those providers who sell subscription plans use a different monetization plan....

D-Wave is beating its own path to qubit processors with its quantum annealing approach. According to D-Wave, the Advantage2 prototype available today features over 500 qubits. It’s a preview of a much larger Advantage2 it hopes to be available by 2024 with 7,000 qubits. Access to the Advantage2 prototype is restricted to customers who have a D-Wave’s Leap cloud service subscription, but developers interested in trying D-Wave’s quantum cloud can sign up to get “one minute of free use of the actual quantum processing units (QPUs) and quantum hybrid solvers” that run on its earlier Advantage QPU....

Red Hat chief people officer Jennifer Dudeck said in a blogpost the maker of the enterprise Linux platform Red Hat Enterprise Linux is going for an “office-flex” model where it allows staff to “come to the office as much as they need to, or not at all if they choose.” Dudeck notes that some of its “tech peers are pulling employees back to the office”, which Red Hat believes isn’t essential for success because it sees value in flexibility....