Pointing to the recent collapse of FTX, Independent Reserve said “urgent and practical regulatory action” was needed to protect cryptocurrency investors in Singapore. Specifically, it asked that licensed market players to be able to advertise their services and communicate with the public. Founded in Australia in 2013, the fintech firm later expanded to Singapore where it secured a Major Payment Institution licence to provide digital payment token services in October last year....

Want this to cost less than $400? Take a look at the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G. Launched in January 2022, this is still a very capable smartphone, but a Cyber Monday deal sees the usual $699 price tag slashed by $300, making this great smartphone a totally unmissable deal. Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G highlights The 120Hz display delivers a super smooth scroll, with an optimized refresh rate, and a fast touch response High-quality display with Dynamic AMOLED 2X delivers vibrant color and brightnessPro-grade camera for high-quality photos and videosRear camera that boasts 12MP ultrawide and wide-angle cameras, and an 8MP telephoto camera32MP front-facing selfie camera30x SpaceZoom combines a 3x Hybrid Optic Zoom and 30x digital zoom for high resolution close-ups4500mAh all-day battery (up to 16 hours of video playback) with Super Fast Charging that can charge 0-50% in 30 minutes....

Also: Live blog: The best Cyber Monday deals 2022 in real time The Nintendo Switch has a 6.2-inch LCD screen, and 32GB of internal storage with support for up to 2TB of additional storage via a microSD card slot. The gaming handheld is completely portable, with a range of battery life between 4.5 hours and 9 hours, depending on the game you’re playing. However, you’re not locked into using it in handheld mode – it comes with a dock that connects to your TV, increasing the picture quality to 1080p in the process....

Ahead of the holidays, US retailers are boosting sales for a few weeks – as well as clearing out older stock to make room for new products. This gives consumers the chance to take advantage of some great deals, including Best Buy’s offer for this Sony TV. The television set comes with a 75-inch LED display, coming in at 4K Ultra HD (2160p) for showing crisp and vibrant content. The TV’s refresh rate is 60GHz....

On Tuesday, Intel 471 published an analysis of current black market trends online, revealing instances of initial access brokers (IABs) offering access to international shipping and logistics companies across the ground, air, and sea. Global supply chains have faced serious upheaval since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The problems go beyond chip shortages – lockdowns and closures have caused backlogs worldwide, and as we slowly emerge from the pandemic, demand for everything from food to electronics remains high....

The 51-page report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee calls on the government to swiftly implement new mandates for federal agencies and critical infrastructure organizations to report ransomware attacks and payments to attackers. The 10-month investigation, which focussed on the role of cryptocurrency in ransomware payments, found that reporting on attacks is “fragmented and incomplete”, in part because the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) both claim to have the “one stop” website for reporting attacks – respectively, IC3....

It’s the same technology that Google uses to provide Project Shield, a free service from Google parent Alphabet that protects human rights, government and media organizations against DDoS attacks. Google in the past has blocked mind-blowingly large DDoS attacks, including one in 2017 that clocked in at 2.56Tbps that is pinned on a Beijing-backed attacker. SEE: Security Awareness and Training Policy (TechRepublic Premium) In November, Google unveiled Cloud Armor Adaptive Protection as part of its DDoS defense and web application firewall (WAF) service that provides customers with the same technology Google uses to protect itself....

According to a report by cybersecurity researchers at Netscout, there were 5.4 million recorded DDoS attacks during the first half of 2021 – a figure that represents an 11% rise compared with the same period last year. A DDoS attack is a crude but effective form of cyberattack that sees attackers flood the network or servers of the victim with a wave of internet traffic that’s so large that the infrastructure is overwhemed by the number of requests for access, slowing down services or taking them fully offline and preventing legitimate users from accessing the service at all....

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Such bigger and bigger programs are resource hogs, and that is an important issue in the ethics of deep learning for society, a dilemma that has caught the attention of mainstream science journals such as Nature. That’s why it’s interesting any time that the term efficiency is brought up, as in, Can we make this AI program more efficient? Scientists at DeepMind, and at Google’s Brain division, recently adapted a neural network they introduced last year, Perceiver, to make it more efficient in terms of its computer power requirement....

This may suggest tougher times ahead for technology professionals, but that’s not necessarily the case. Rather, the hiring market for technology talent remains robust, and demand keeps growing for technology professionals who can fuse business requirements with tech savvy. That’s the word from Jeff Williams, vice president of enterprise and HR solutions for Paychex, providing his perspective on what’s ahead for the technology talent market in the year ahead. Q: Despite the headlines, does the balance still favor tech professionals overall?...

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The DOJ also said it arrested 34-year-old Ilya Lichtenstein and his 31-year-old wife Heather Morgan for their role in attempting to launder 119,754 bitcoin that were stolen during the attack on the Hong Kong exchange. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco called the seizure the “department’s largest financial seizure ever.” In total, about $4.5 billion was stolen from the exchange, and two brothers, Eli and Assaf Gigi, were arrested by Israeli authorities in 2019 for their involvement in the attack....

Dominoes, from end to end A few vendors see MLOps as encompassing all of the above. One such vendor is Domino Data Lab, which is today announcing a new release – Domino 4.6 – of its end-to-end MLOps platform. And because Domino focuses on all facets of machine learning operations, it hasn’t added new ones, but has instead significantly improved a few of them: model monitoring, cloud deployment and supported distributed computing environments for model development and training....

Domino’s, which operates in 10 markets globally, has signed a deal with Macquarie Telecom to roll out NBN, VoIP, and SD-WAN with 4G back-up services to more than 720 Domino’s stores across Australia to accommodate for the expected continued growth online. “We want a telco infrastructure solution that’s going to be capable not just for now, with a large percentage of online sales … [but] will grow to the future, that will be reliable for up and downstream for data, and also smarter stores be it technology in-store or out of store that needs to return to base,” Domino’s group chief digital and experience officer Michael Gillespie told ZDNet....

This is that time of year where sales of consumer electronics takes a bit of a dip following the holiday period, but with coronavirus still dominating the news and working (and learning) from home looks like it’s going to be a thing for the foreseeable future, there’s going to be people looking to buy things. And a sizable chunk of those products will be Apple products. Apple is an interesting company....

According to Musk, the cybertruck will be “waterproof,” allowing it to take journeys across rivers, lakes and “even seas that aren’t too choppy.” Musk added in another tweet: “Needs be able to get from Starbase to South Padre Island, which requires crossing the channel.” The electric pick-up truck has a unique, geometric design that is unlike any trucks you currently see on the road. The Tesla website claims that the truck offers “better utility than a truck with more performance than a sports car....

While the UK’s cybersecurity body says the UK hasn’t experienced severe cyberattacks in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it also warns “now is not the time for complacency”. The NCSC has previously issued cybersecurity advice around dealing with the risk of cyberattacks related to the war, but now it’s warning that the conflict is set to go on for some time and that this reality needs to be considered both when it comes to protecting against cyber threats and protecting against staff burnout because of the ongoing pressure....

Firms pay top dollar for professionals who’ve mastered the hard and people skills the role demands. At $149,530, the median annual salary for engineering managers is more than 3.5 times the national average. Read on to learn about life as an engineering manager, what skills they need, and whether the job is right for you. A day in the life of an engineering manager Engineering managers may work in industrial production plants, research laboratories, and office settings resolving regulatory issues....