On March 1, 2022, Microsoft was slated to increase prices globally for most of its commercial Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. The increases will range from $12 per user per year more for Microsoft 365 Business Basic to $48 per user per year more for Microsoft 365 E3. Pricing for consumers, education and the highest-end Microsoft 365 E5 SKU will not increase at this time, officials said last year....

See also: The best Surface PC: Every Surface device is Windows 11-ready. Windows 11 SE (which I’d think stands for Student Edition or School Edition, but which Microsoft claims doesn’t stand for anything in particular) will only be available preloaded on new devices for the education market. It won’t be available for existing devices or made available separately for users to install on any other devices. It will be available pre-installed on PCs that are available via education purchasing channels....

Game engines like Unity allow for the game and digital experience creators to design and realize 3D environments and assets for games, training tools, and other digital experiences. The Unity engine itself has powered a slew of popular games since its launch in 2005, with some notable recent releases including Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, Fall Guys, Genshin Impact, and many others. Also: How Microsoft and Samsung may finally take cloud gaming mainstream Now, Unity is hoping to leverage this new, official partnership with Microsoft’s Azure to expand into non-gaming spaces as well....

Oh, what does anyone really want? More time, more money, more love and more avenues to happiness. Technology, for all its genius, hasn’t quite managed to deliver all these things. Especially during the pandemic. As many employees worked from home, they became used to sitting on Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls for hours every day. It was tiring. There seemed no time for a casual chat. Or, better still, a deeply-sourced corporate gossip....

Box has been at Microsoft for 19 years. He posted on Facebook last night that he’s leaving Microsoft for a new gig, which will start on May 3, after taking off the month of April. (He has not revealed publicly what he’ll be doing next.) Box’s most recent job at Microsoft was Technical Fellow and Vice President of Engineering for Mixed Reality, a post he held since late 2017. He worked with the Mixed Reality team on the recent Ignite launch of Microsoft Mesh....

AiTM sounds like bad news as the phishing sites can skip authentication on sites even when the user has enabled multi-factor authentication (MFA). The attack involves hijacking a user’s sign-in session, and using stolen credentials and session cookies to access victims’ email for business email compromise (BEC) fraud. MFA is one of the key ways organizations can protect themselves from phishing and credential theft attacks. The Biden administration made MFA mandatory for federal agencies while other organizations, such as the Python Software Foundation, are making MFA a minimum requirement for critical projects....

St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Josh Renaud wrote a story on Thursday indicating that the newspaper discovered issues with a web application that allowed anyone to search through a database of certifications and credentials belonging to more than 100,000 of the state’s teachers. Payment data and social security numbers were also vulnerable due to the issue. The newspaper contacted the department, and the pages were removed. All of this was done before the story was published to give the state time to rectify the vulnerability....

He outlined that AU$15 million of the total will be used to support supply chain monitoring. This would including AU$4.3 million to enhance the CSIRO transport network strategic investment tool to model domestic transport supply chains, AU$10 million for mapping and monitoring critical supply chains to proactively identify vulnerabilities before they arise, while AU$1.3 million would be used to commission the chief scientist to develop a national plan for semiconductors to address current and future supply....

Ever since the company declared itself and its wares to be “agents of change,” I’ve been desperate to witness the change I can believe in. The company’s first attempt to think different sadly resembled something you’ve seen (far too) many times before. Still, my eyes became oddly widened when I saw this headline: “Forget the new iPhone 13 – Motorola thinks it just made your next work phone.” This gave me a shuddery feeling for more than one reason....

Starting today, you can order Nanoleaf’s Essentials Smart Bulbs and Lightstrips. The bulbs come in A19 BR30, GUI10, and Downlight sizes and configurations, starting at $19.99 for a standard A19 bulb, or $49.99 for a three-pack of bulbs. All of the bulbs are capable of switching between millions of colors. Also: The best smart lights money can buy The Lightstrip comes in two different smart home flavors: Matter or HomeKit....

NASA and the DOE are exploring nuclear power since electricity, obviously, isn’t exactly readily available on the moon or farther out in space. When astronauts return to the moon and eventually travel to Mars, they’ll need a power system that’s reliable and lightweight. It should also be capable of running in different locales, as well as different environmental and weather conditions. Fission systems meet the criteria. By the end of the decade, NASA and the DOE want to test a 40-kilowatt class fission power system on the moon....

As human space ambitions grow beyond the moon, that creates real challenges for potential manned missions. So NASA, like all good sailors and efficiency-minded denizens of small quarters, is getting crafty. Instead of packing more stuff, what if there were useful ways to reuse the waste generated from old stuff? That’s the premise behind a new crowdsourcing challenge called Waste to Base Materials Challenge: Sustainable Reprocessing in Space, which seeks to find novel ways to deal with waste for future human missions to space sustainably....

In a sample of 980 930 files acquired by D3Lab analysts on Monday, the batch contained names, addresses, credit card numbers, expirations and CVVs. About 30 000 entries in the data set came from people living in Italy, based on identifications tied to the stolen cards. D3Lab analysts found the information on a carding database called All World Cards. All World Cards is a haven for online credit card thieves involved in things like magecart attacks, information-stealing malware and point-of-sale attacks....

Called the Asia Link Cable (ALC) system, the cable network is expected to be competed by the third quarter of 2025, according to Singtel, which jointly leads the consortium with China Telecom Global. The group also comprises the Philippines’ Globe Telecom and DITO Telecommunity, Brunei’s Unified National Networks, and China Telecommunications. Singtel said in a statement Tuesday the new subsea system would cater to demand for low latency and high bandwidth as Southeast Asia’s digital economies and online population continued to expand....

AUCloud said in a statement that it will raise the total by issuing new shares at AU$0.50 per share, which will also include a placement to NextDC of approximately AU$12.4 million. According to AUCloud, the funding will largely be used to scale the company to “critical mass”. “We continue to see a trend towards greater emphasis on sovereign cloud services to ensure all data remains within Australian legal jurisdictions,” AUCloud CEO and managing director Phil Dawson said....

The expansion follows the launch of the state government’s Spatial Digital Twin in February last year. At launch, there were virtual representations of eight “high growth” councils in the state on the platform. These included the Blue Mountains, Camden, Campbelltown, Fairfield, Hawkesbury, Liverpool, Penrith, and Wollondilly. Minister for Digital and Customer Service Victor Dominello believes expanding the tool to cover the rest of the state will help further transform urban planning and infrastructure....

Rendering 3D worlds is a complicated technical challenge. One technique known as inverse rendering involves reconstructing 3D scenes from a handful of 2D images. It uses AI to approximate how light behaves in the real world. Nvidia recently showcased its work with neural radiance fields (NeRF), which uses AI to speed up the process of inverse rendering. The downside of NeRF models is that they leave you with images you can’t easily edit – that’s not great for a designer creating something new....

The microchip company said it first became aware of the incident on February 23 and added that it impacted its IT resources. “Shortly after discovering the incident, we further hardened our network, engaged cybersecurity incident response experts, and notified law enforcement. We have no evidence of ransomware being deployed on the NVIDIA environment or that this is related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. However, we are aware that the threat actor took employee credentials and some NVIDIA proprietary information from our systems and has begun leaking it online,” an NVIDIA spokesperson told ZDNet....

The REvil – also known as Sodinokibi – ransomware gang went dark in July, shortly after finding themselves drawing the attention of the White House following the massive ransomware attack, which affected 1,500 organisations around the world. It’s still uncertain if REvil has quit for good or if they will return under different branding – but affiliates of the ransomware scheme aren’t waiting to find out; they’re switching to using other brands of ransomware and, according to analysis by cybersecurity researchers at Symantec, LockBit ransomware has become the weapon of choice....