As was true for many companies, Microsoft continued to update its target return-to-work dates as the pandemic demographics continued to shift. Last fall, officials decided against setting a new public return-to-the-office target date. Capossela cited high local vaccination rates, coupled with lower levels of hospitalization and higher availability of testing as all playing a role in the reopening date determination. Outside of Washington state, Microsoft’s Bay Area sites in California, including Microsoft’s new Silicon Valley Campus, also will fully open on Feb....

One of the more commendable efforts this time around has been the misinformation bubble-bursting work undertaken by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) on Twitter. Rather than just being a boring corporate account, it has got sassy and has been stomping on any misinformation or disinformation it comes across. After watching electoral messes overseas, the AEC clearly formed a view that politely and meekly engaging was not an option to head off one of the biggest scourges of being online in the 2020s, and if the pilled mob are going to claim the election is rigged regardless of counter arguments, the AEC might as well have a proper go at them and take an infinitesimal shot at piercing their reality....

On Tuesday, Moment added to its MagSafe accessory lineup with three new mounts, one of which adds a MagSafe-like magnetic disk to the back of any phone, making it possible to use MagSafe mounts (not chargers) with any phone. The new Moment Mobile Filmmaker Cage is a video cage that holds your iPhone in place, giving you a place to hold the frame of the cage instead of your iPhone, and it has two cold shoe attachment points, giving you a place to connect an external mic, lights, or anything else you’d normally use when shooting video on your phone....

There are many challenges to using data science effectively, including which problems to consider and collecting the right data at scale. For business people, these challenges are magnified because they intersect multiple domains such as organizational decision-making, innovation and business model reinvention, technology capability, and even privacy and ethics. This complexity drives most organizations to buy off-the-shelf software products that automate specific processes and include AI baked-in as part of the offering....

According to the 2022 State of Healthcare IoT Device Security Report from Cynerio, 53% of internet-connected medical devices analyzed were found to have a known vulnerability, while one-third of bedside devices were identified to have a critical risk. Cynerio analyzed over 10 million medical devices at more than 300 global hospitals and medical facilities. Maryland officials confirm ransomware attack shut down Department of Health The report warns that if these medical devices were to be accessed by hackers, it would impact service availability, data confidentiality, and even patient safety....

With the help and funding of Mozilla, the two artists have released an innovative project called “Future Wake.” The interactive website takes on police use of predictive software by doing the reverse: using AI trained on real law enforcement data to predict future police killings. The piece, done by two artists who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the piece, features stories about fictional future victims of police violence in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York and Phoenix....

Your gadget is working perfectly normally. And then it isn’t. There I was, you see, perfectly content with my still shiny blue iPhone 12 when I realized it was ailing. The power button had gone a touch limp. It had begun to recede into the body of the phone. When I pressed it in the usual manner, nothing happened. When I pressed it a little harder, it might work. Or it might wake Siri from her almost-permanent slumber....

In fact, it was seeing a good uptick in enterprise growth before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, said MyRepublic’s Singapore managing director Lawrence Chan, and was bringing in the same sale volume as its consumer broadband business. At the peak of the pandemic, though, sales from the enterprise space had dipped by 20%, he said in a video interview with ZDNet. While it saw some recovery in recent months, with a smaller 10% dip, Chan said it still was too early to say when volumes would return to pre-pandemic levels....

How much does the US spend on space? NASA’s budget increased by 3% in fiscal year 2022, up to $24 billion. It was still short of the increase that the Biden administration sought, which was 7%. For fiscal year 2023, the Biden administration wants to increase NASA’s budget by 8% to almost $26 billion. Space spending is on the up. How does that compare to other countries? Compared to other countries, the United States spends significantly more on space – a whole lot more....

Nick Gregory, a Sophos threat researcher, found this hole recently while checking netfilter for possible security problems. Gregory explains in great detail his bug hunt, and I recommend it for those who want insight into finding C errors. But, for those of you who just want to cut to the chase, here’s the story. This is a serious bug. Specifically, it’s a heap out-of-bounds write problem with the kernel’s netfilter....

On Tuesday, Deloitte published the results of a new survey, taking place between June 6 and August 24, 2021, which includes the responses of 577 C-suite executives worldwide (159 in the US) on today’s cybersecurity threats. The research – including insight from those in CEO, CISO, and other leadership roles – suggests that nearly all US executives have come across at least one cybersecurity event over the past year, 98%, in comparison to 84% internationally....

Trying to keep all of your devices both powered up and connected without sacrificing your workspace can be challenging. There are power strips and USB ports, but using both together won’t always accomplish all you need. They will also take up too much room in your bags when transitioning from work to home. If you want to keep your devices connected to use them whenever you need to, you don’t necessarily need a massive docking station....

The new Apple TV 4K is available in two configurations: the Apple TV 4K with Wi-Fi, which offers 64 GB of storage and retails at $129, plus the Apple TV 4K with Wi-Fi + Ethernet, which offers 128 GB of storage and retails at $149. You can order both now on the Apple site with availability beginning Friday, November 4. At the heart of the new Apple TV 4K is the A15 Bionic chip, which features in Apple’s latest iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus smartphones and brings superior performance and energy efficiency to Apple’s TV offering....

LibreOffice 7.2 arrives six months after TDF released LibreOffice 7.1 with a message urging enterprise users to stop using the free Community version and move to a paid-for LibreOffice Enterprise version with more support options from partners. TDF, which bills LibreOffice as “free and open source software” (FOSS), is maintaining its position that enterprise organizations should stop free-riding off the volunteer-made community version and that LibreOffice may stagnate like OpenOffice – the open source office productivity suite that Oracle offloaded to The Apache Foundation in 2011....

The new Surveillance Camera Code of Practice is an improved version of the code that was published in 2013, and is the first time the document has been amended in eight years. The code provides guidance on the use of camera systems that record or view images for surveillance purposes. CCTV cameras, for example, are included, along with automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technologies, and any system that’s used to store or process the information obtained by those devices....

Officials noted in the blog post on February 16 about the new build that Microsoft is no longer planning to publicly note when it changes the branches (which have been codenamed using periodic element names for the past few years) that are used for particular builds. As officials said previously, the Dev Channel branch will be for testing all kinds of experimental features which may or may never be included as part of a future Windows release....

The Wall Street Journal, which is owned by News Corp, followed up on the filing with reporting that the attack was discovered on January 20. News Corp sent a letter about the attack to employees at the newspaper and the Dow Jones, the New York Post, the company’s UK news outlet and the News Corp headquarters. Mandiant vice president David Wong attributed the attack to actors allegedly based within China but did not provide any evidence for that assessment....

This partnership is a major step in Nexo’s plan to create a comprehensive, institutional-grade platform to help bring in traditional finance companies into the digital assets space. “Our client base will now have full use of our industry-leading credit and trading products with reliance on Fidelity Digital Assets’ bespoke custody and security solutions,” said Nexo co-founder and managing partner Kalin Metodiev. Through its partnership with Fidelity Digital Assets – which will act as custodian and collateral agent – Nexo said it will broaden its ability to service and enhance its expanding portfolio of assets under management, providing additional custody to its military-grade security infrastructure....

The new facility will be known as A1 Adelaide and call 211 Pirie Street home. NextDC said when complete, the facility would deliver up to 10MW of power, be certified as an Uptime Institute Tier IV data centre, and offer direct cloud interconnection capability. It will also feature an innovation centre that NextDC said would serve as “an entrepreneurial incubation hub which will cultivate local technology expertise and further enhance South Australia’s global reputation for hi-tech, including capabilities around artificial intelligence, data analytics, and cybersecurity”....

The Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) will be a voluntary document that can be used by developers, evaluators and others as a way to “improve the trustworthiness of AI systems.” NIST noted that the request for input comes after Congress and the White House asked the organization to create a framework for AI. Deputy Commerce Secretary Don Graves said in a statement that the document “could make a critical difference in whether or not new AI technologies are competitive in the marketplace....