Released today, Castle Hill in Sydney, and Salisbury, Golden Grove, and Osborne in northern Adelaide are the initial service areas for upgrades of FttN to full fibre connections. Additional areas in Castle Hill will be made available at the end of November, before Elizabeth in Adelaide, Holsworthy and Liverpool in Sydney, and Lyndhurst in Melbourne are added on January 27. In February, Berwick South in Melbourne is set to be added, as well as Gepps Cross and Croydon in Adelaide....

Hochul announced the new statewide Joint Security Operations Center alongside mayors from New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers on Tuesday afternoon. The cybersecurity hub, located in Brooklyn and called the first of its kind in the nation, will serve as a centralized location for state officials to turn in times of cybercrisis. Officials said the Joint Security Operations Center will be comprised of experts from federal and state law enforcement entities, representatives from local and county governments, and NYC3....

Tech jobs with no degree requirement exist across the workforce, primarily in entry-level positions. If you’re willing to learn on the job, self-study, or leverage relevant experience, you may find opportunities in many industries. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than one-third of computer support specialists hold no degrees. Read on to discover more high-paying tech jobs you may be able to attain without a degree....

Nova Finance, which is built on the Solana blockchain, utilizes a unique module called an nAsset. An nAsset is a module backed by a particular token, whether it be Solana or Ethereum or Nova Finance’s own native token, Nova. nAssets can then be programmed to execute specific commands or to apply specific investing rules to portfolios. For example, an nAsset backed by ETH can be programmed to execute a trade when ETH hits a specific value, automating the trading process....

Zoom joins the list of US tech companies to make significant cuts after rapid hiring during the pandemic-driven windfall for the sector. Zoom said it will cut 15% of its global headcount, amounting to 1,300 employees. Also: Cybersecurity staff are struggling. Here’s how to support them better Zoom and Microsoft Teams user numbers exploded during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of the shift to remote work....

In a statement, the department said a number of its internal systems were deactivated on Wednesday as a precaution. “The timing of this creates considerable challenges for staff as we prepare for the start of Term 3,” NSW Education Secretary Georgina Harrisson said. “Thankfully, our teams have been able to isolate the issues and we are working to reactivate services as soon as possible.” Harrisson said the department’s priority would be the safety and security of its student and staff data, which she explained was why the precautionary decision was made to take some systems offline as it investigates further....

The commission said it was concerned that Nvidia would restrict access to Arm IP, and would lead to higher prices and lessened competition, following its initial investigation. It added that Nvidia has filed commitments that met some of its preliminary concerns, but these were not enough to “clearly dismiss its serious doubts”. Specifically, the commission said it was concerned about the impact of the transaction on data centre CPUs, smart interconnects, chips in car infotainment and driver-assistance systems, high-performance IoT devices, gaming consoles, and PCs....

Jeremy Burton is a seasoned Silicon Valley veteran, used to managing vast resources inside giant companies such as Dell, Oracle and EMC. He has seen many waves of change in the Valley. What is going on with Snowflake, however, is perhaps on another level. “The main thing is how many new use cases there are, the ecosystem is starting to get going,” he reflected recently in an interview with ZDNet via Zoom....

That’s OctoML’s offering in a nutshell. We think it paints a representative picture of today’s landscape in AI application deployment, a domain also known as MLOps. We have identified MLOps as a key part of the ongoing shift to machine learning-powered applications, and introduced OctoML in March 2021, on the occasion of their Series B funding round. Launched today at TVMcon 2021, the conference around the open source Apache TVM framework for machine learning acceleration, OctoML’s new release brings a number of new features....

Belfiore tweeted about his planned retirement late today. From Belfiore’s email to the troops from today – a copy of which I saw and verified with Microsoft was real: “After a lot of personal reflection, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to draw my very-long career at Microsoft to its end after 32 years of amazing experiences building software and services with all of you.” He added: “This summer I went through the experience of sending my oldest off to college, which crystallized my realization around the limited time that remains for me to prioritize kids and family before the last of our crew moves out of the house....

What does this mean for you? It means you should never underestimate the value of professional development and generalist skills. One way to build up this knowledge base is by simply exploring the lectures available in Big Think Edge’s library. Taught by experts like Tim Ferriss, Edward Norton, Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Hadfield, Sarah Blakely, and Elon Musk, the library is available by subscription for personal and professional development. Over 150 experts, from Ivy-league professors to entrepreneurs, make up Big Think Edge’s collection intended to diversify your perspective for innovation....

However, that picture had already begun to alter before the COVID-19 pandemic– which acted as a further catalyst for change. As a result, last year, the consultancy firm Kearney revised its predictions for the e-commerce market in the Gulf region (GCC) from $21bn in 2020 to $24 billion. By 2025, they estimate the market in this part of the Middle East will have doubled to $50 billion per year....

Similarly, combining visual observation with audio could help a computer conceivably parse human speech better. In a sense, computer programs can read lips, though it is a laborious task to engineer. Recent AI work by Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, suggests a more efficient path to a day when computers can read lips just as well as HAL 9000 did when Dr. David Bowman and Dr. Frank Poole tried to evade its audio sensors inside the pod in the movie “2001....

That’s not to say it isn’t bad. Both CVE-2022-3786 (“X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow”) and CVE-2022-3602 (“X.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer Overflow”) have a CVE rating of 8.8, which is considered “high.” That means they could still cause you real trouble. If that is, you’re using OpenSSL 3.0.0 to 3.0.6. OpenSSL 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 users don’t have to worry. However, just because your main operating system uses OpenSSL 1....

The telco picked up a single lower lot of 2x5Mhz in metro and regional allocations in the 900Mhz band, along with two pairs of 1MHz in downshift spectrum. In the upper bands, Optus gained three lots for a total of 2x20Mhz in metro and regional areas, but already had two lots of 5Mhz in the upper bands set aside for it for a pre-determined price of almost AU$357 million. “With this additional spectrum, and our existing mid and high band spectrum, we can continue to deliver great coverage and bring the benefits of our technology leadership to more Australians,” Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin said....

There’s nothing quite like a couple of years of chaos to make you want to take control of your life. While spending more time at home to social distance may have pointed your thoughts to tidying it with dazzling decor, it’s now time to move towards the interior design of your mind. If you think you can benefit from ruthlessly organizing your daily routine while simultaneously initiating a significant life change, the 2022 Productive Power Player Bundle is for you....

The Qualys Research Team, which uncovered the file system bug, also discovered a size_t-to-int type conversion vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s filesystem. This Linux security hole has been named Sequoia and it’s been designated CVE-2021-33909. Doesn’t sound like much, does it? Au contraire! It can be used against most Linux distributions in their default configurations. And, worse still, any – I repeat, any – unprivileged user can abuse it to gain root privileges....

The Telecommunications Interception and Access Act (TIA Act) previously banned the practice, but the government and its security agencies have argued that Australia has been falling behind foreign agencies. “The challenge with the existing foreign communications warrant is that the interception of domestic communications (communications that both start and end within Australia) is prohibited, even where that interception is inadvertent or unavoidable,” the PJCIS report said. The report said this approach made sense when interception warrants were introduced in 2000, and the main ways to communicate where telephone and fax lines, which had “reliable geographic identifiers such as country code, city code and exchange code”, but the use of the internet has changed that environment....

However, quitting your job can be arduous and anxiety-inducing, if not downright unpleasant – and with multiple moving parts, it can be easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. If you’re thinking of making your next career move, here are three key things to keep in mind before submitting your notice. 1. Make sure you’re financially stable Perhaps the most important thing to consider before resigning from your job is your financial state....

Invited to speak before UK lawmakers as part of an inquiry into the use of algorithms in policing, a panel of experts from around the world agreed that while the deployment of new technologies in law enforcement agencies is booming, there also seems to be growing pushback from those who will be most affected by the tools. “With respect to certain technologies, we’ve begun to see some criticism and pushback,” said Elizabeth Jo, professor of law at the University of California, Davis....