Fight for the Future, Algorithmic Justice League, EPIC, and other civil rights organizations launched a website – called Dump ID.me – allowing people to sign a petition against the IRS plan. This campaign site comes after days of criticism from privacy, justice, and civil rights groups concerned about the potential for a company like ID.me to have access to peoples’ most sensitive data. ID.me’s CEO Blake Hall faced widespread backlash for a LinkedIn post where he admitted that the company had been lying about the way its tool works....

Fortunately, you can prepare for these questions in advance — but only if you know what to expect. Before your interview, you need to know the most common computer science interview questions. What to expect when interviewing for a computer science role Professionals in all career stages must get through the interview process to land in-demand computer science jobs. But what should you expect during a tech interview? And what kinds of computer science interview questions will the interviewer ask?...

Also: All the best Black Friday gaming deals The G Cloud entered a market with increasingly stiff competition. Not only did it have to prove its worth versus gaming on tablets and smartphones, but it also had to contend with the likes of Valve’s Steam Deck and Razer’s forthcoming Edge gaming handheld. When I tested it out, I found the G Cloud to be a gaming device with excellent hardware that was occasionally held back by the ongoing growing pains of cloud gaming services and the usual quirks of Android....

On May 11, Microsoft Security Intelligence published a Twitter thread outlining a campaign targeting the “aerospace and travel sectors with spear-phishing emails that distribute an actively developed loader, which then delivers RevengeRAT or AsyncRAT.” The operator of this campaign used email spoofing to pretend to be legitimate organizations in these industries, and an attached .PDF file included an embedded link, containing a malicious VBScript which would then drop Trojan payloads on a target machine....

According to Foundry’s 2022 Security Priorities Study, which surveyed nearly 900 surveyed security leaders around the world, 90% think their organization is not doing enough to address cybersecurity risks. Cybersecurity attacks aren’t new, but hackers are getting more sophisticated, and are increasingly targeting universities, hospitals. big businesses and critical infrastructure. Also: Russian hackers’ lack of success against Ukraine shows that strong cyber defences work, says cybersecurity chief The growing problem companies face today is that the technology threats are evolving too fast for cybersecurity staff to keep pace....

Also: Pick up this 70-inch 4K Roku TV for just $385 at Target Interested in more tech deals and reviews? Subscribe to the ZDNet Recommends newsletter and let our expert reviewers scour the internet for only the top products, services, and deals for you. I’ve personally been using the MX Master 3 since the start of the pandemic. As someone who works remotely and clicks, glides, and scrolls for 8+ hours a day, it does more than I could ask for....

Wi-Fi does not pass between the two parts of the house. That utility room behaves as a fully functioning Faraday cage. To get around this problem, we ran Ethernet cables to a bunch of rooms in the house and then added backhauling Synology MR2200ac Wi-Fi repeaters into six rooms in the house. I did a full article on this, which you can read here. But there are two rooms where we couldn’t run Ethernet: the master bedroom and the workshop....

That’s one of the key takeaways from a recent survey of 400 IT executives, conducted by IDG and underwritten by Insight Enterprises. There is wide agreement that IT modernization is sorely needed before digital transformation can begin in earnest. Eighty-nine percent of IT executives admit that existing infrastructure, operations and culture are constraining innovation and strategic business growth. At least half the survey group, 49% say their IT infrastructure inhibits business growth “to a great extent....

The InCharge Cable is just a bundle of convenience. First, it offers six different charging combinations. In addition to the ones listed above that can be used for output, it has both USB and USB-C ports for input. And, unlike a great many other cables, these aren’t restricted to only charging. They can sync and connect, as well. Even better, it has a proprietary chip that makes it possible even to charge tablets and laptops....

Challenge accepted! Because doing a proper comparison between the two cameras will take a little while, I thought that as an appetizer I’d bring you along for a first look, and note some things that I like and some things that I dislike right away about this newest action camera on the scene. This is the DJI Osmo Action 3 Adventure Combo, which is a little different from the base model in terms of accessories, but as far as the camera is concerned, they’re the same....

According to Chen, a “major computer manufacturer” at some point in the 2000s discovered that Rhythm Nation, a Jackson hit released in 1989, was crashing some laptops and caused a nearby laptop to crash even though it wasn’t playing the song. The reason, explains Chen, is that Rhythm Nation contained one of the “natural resonant frequencies” on laptops with 5400rpm hard drives. Fortunately, devices with disk spinning at 5400rpm are only common in older laptops....

Surely, Apple gave the camera cutouts a name so that the press and public didn’t end up naming it something worse than the notch, as we saw happen with the iPhone X. But what’s so special about the Dynamic Island? Well, Apple took what are actually two different cutouts – you can see them if you look at the screen close up while rotating the phone – and built software to hide the camera modules, all while making it interactive....

The company also offered an outlook for revenue this quarter that was just slightly below consensus. The report sent Dynatrace shares down by 18% for the day. In an interview with ZDNet via Zoom, CEO Rick McConnell remarked, “the company is doing great, I am thrilled to be here,” adding that the company’s market for observabiilty and app security is “alive and well.” This was McConnell’s first quarter running the company....

“The bird is freed,” Musk tweeted. One of Musk’s first moves, according to reports, was to fire several top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal. Twitter General Counsel Sean Edgett and Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s head of legal policy, trust and safety, were also let go. On the eve of his Twitter takeover, Elon Musk promised advertisers that the social media platform will not become a “free-for-all hellscape....

Social media newsletter Platformer reports that one of Elon Musk’s first moves since acquiring Twitter on late Thursday is demanding that executives roll out a program to charge existing verified users. On Sunday, Musk tweeted on his platform that the entire Twitter verification system will be revamped. On Tuesday, Musk affirmed his intent to revamp how people get verified on Twitter by charging an amount that is “adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity” and brings back “Power to the people”....

Even so, every time I hear of a new distribution release geared toward new users, I get excited because it means there’s one more version of the open-source operating system that can be used to sway new users away from their proprietary OSs. So, when I read there was a new release of Emmabuntüs, you can bet I wanted to try it right away. Also: Linux desktop powers consider uniting for an app store Emmabuntüs is a lightweight Linux distribution that is based on Debian 11....

The goal of onboarding is to immerse new employees in their new company culture. Onboarding should introduce new hires to their job duties, their company’s core values and beliefs, and connect them with team members. Of course, the end goal is to fully engage a new hire and decrease employee turnover. But unfortunately, and more often than not, a company’s onboarding program doesn’t accomplish any of these goals, and the consequences can be detrimental....

On Wednesday, IBM Security released its annual “Cost of a Data Breach” report, which estimates that in 2021, a typical data breach experienced by companies now costs $4.24 million per incident, with expenses incurred now 10% higher than in 2020 when 1,000 – 100,000 records are involved. So-called “mega” breaches impacting top enterprise firms responsible for the exposure of between 50 million and 65 million records now also come with a higher price tag – reaching an average of $401 million to resolve....

In a blog post, Facebook’s engineering team outlined a MySQL upgrade from 5.6 to 8.0. MySQL serves as the basis for Facebook’s storage engine, replication and workloads. Facebook had custom features with the open-source database, had to ensure replication was compatible and had to minimize changes while bolstering performance. The upgrade is worth a read since it highlights how enterprises can customize open-source software and end up with all the complications of a proprietary system....

Launched by Nvidia, which invested a total $100 million in designing and building the device, Cambridge-1 is expected to step up research capabilities across the UK in fields like digital biology, genomics and drug discovery. The system was built in only 20 weeks, despite the restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which stopped Nvidia engineers from crossing the Atlantic to assist their UK-based colleagues during the build. SEE: Guide to Becoming a Digital Transformation Champion (TechRepublic Premium) Instead, the company resorted to a number of technologies, ranging from sophisticated computational modelling to remote-controlled mobile robots, to make sure that Cambridge-1 could be delivered and launched on time....