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Sony has jumped in on the action, making it easier for you to add a new model to your home for less. Right now, you can save thousands on its panels. Can’t decide on a model? We’re breaking the best deals – and the models available – right here. Read on for the best picks during the tech giant’s TV sale. Honorable Mentions If you’re looking for other options, here are some other great deals that I found that are worth your hard-earned dollar....

Detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Intezer, the previously undetected malware has been called Orbit after filenames it used to temporarily store the output of executed commands. Linux is a popular operating system for servers and cloud infrastructure, which makes it a tempting target for cyber criminals. SEE: A winning strategy for cybersecurity (ZDNet special report) Orbit malware provides cyber criminals with remote access to Linux systems, allowing them to steal usernames and passwords and log TTY commands – the inputs made in the Linux terminal....

A couple of weeks ago, NASA’s beloved Hubble Space Telescope, which over the course of its 31-year career has provided us with many enchanting pictures of distant stars and galaxies, started showing some worrying symptoms. The telescope’s payload computer, one of the central systems that controls and coordinates the science instruments onboard the spacecraft, and transmits science and engineering data to the ground, unexpectedly came to a halt. SEE: Building the bionic brain (free PDF) (TechRepublic) This was immediately picked up by NASA’s team because the payload computer and the main computer on the telescope are normally constantly sending each other a “keep-alive” signal – known by NASA engineers as a “handshake” – to indicate that all is well....

With a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark score of 1.102 Exaflops per second, Frontier is the only exa-scale supercomputer and is three times faster than its nearest competitor, Fugaku, at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan, according to Top 500. One exaflop is a quintillion calculations or floating point operations (flops) per second. Frontier, a HPE Cray EX system, is quipped with 8,730,112 cores and combines 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs optimized for HPC and AI, with AMD Instinct 250X accelerators, and Slingshot-10 interconnect....

Most TV speaker systems come with a separate subwoofer. This JBL soundbar produces high-quality bass with four built-in passive radiators. Using Bluetooth, AirPlay, Alex Multi-Room Music and Chromecast built-in, you can wirelessly play your favorite sounds and videos through the soundbar. Included in the box are two L-shaped wall mounts that allow you to mount the product on the wall so it doesn’t take up your much-needed counter space.

Bellevue, WA-based collaboration and communications management company Unify Square, a Unisys company, has today released its workplace collaboration report. Its second annual workplace collaboration survey has uncovered that three in five enterprise employees miss in-person interaction. The survey asked 563 enterprise employees about their perspectives on collaboration and communication since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they imagine that the hybrid workplace will continue to evolve post-pandemic. The survey showed that over half (54....

Under the revised plans, Toshiba and Infrastructure Service Co will remain as one entity, while Device Co will be spun out, as initially planned. In this latest restructure, Toshiba and Infrastructure Co will consist of Toshiba’s energy systems, infrastructure systems, building solutions, and digital solutions businesses, in addition to Toshiba’s ownership stake in Kioxia Holdings Corporation (KHC). This will leave Device Co with Toshiba’s electronic devices and storage solutions business....

Using a set of pro forma simulated numbers, TPG was slightly down on its headline numbers. Revenue dropped 3% to AU$2.6 billion, earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) dropped by the same percentage to AU$886 million, and net profit fell 6% to AU$132 million. Looking at its consumer and corporate segments, consumer service revenue fell AU$119 million to AU$1.76 billion, while handset revenue increased AU$39 million to AU$387 million, giving consumer EBITDA of AU$638 million, a drop of AU$28 million....

If you have any more back-to-back-to-back Microsoft Teams meetings, you’ll ululate for three days straight. And what about all those clients, customers and co-workers whom you haven’t seen for years? Surely you’d like to get together with them and do the normal businessy human things you used to. Airlines realize that business travel will return only slightly more quickly than economy seats wide enough for the average human. Hotels, however, have taken it upon themselves to prepare in the sort of way airlines have loved for so very long....

Researchers with Trellix named the malware involved “Graphite” because it uses Microsoft’s Graph API to leverage OneDrive as a command and control server. The attack takes advantage of an MSHTML remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) to execute a malicious executable in memory, according to Trellix. “As seen in the analysis of the Graphite malware, one quite innovative functionality is the use of the OneDrive service as a Command and Control through querying the Microsoft Graph API with a hardcoded token in the malware....

The podcasts will live within Twitter’s redesigned audio experience in the Spaces tab. Adding podcasts is a natural enhancement of the Spaces tab. Launched in 2020, it has functioned as an audio chatroom. SEE: Elon Musk says he’s backing out of his plan to buy Twitter Since then, it has gone through many different updates. On the Twitter Spaces page, Twitter says: “We’ve been testing and building this in the open with @TwitterSpaces and your feedback so we get it right....

The gaming giant, headquartered in Montreuil, France, said on March 10 that the incident took place earlier this month, causing “temporary disruption to some of our games, systems, and services.” Ubisoft’s IT team is currently working with cybersecurity experts to investigate the situation and, as of now, has decided to initiate a company-wide password reset. However, no further security measures or changes have been made public. Furthermore, the company says that games and services are now working properly, and there is no evidence, at present, of “any player personal information [being] accessed or exposed as a by-product of this incident....

On March 2, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, tweeted a copy of letters addressed to Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO Safra Catz, and SAP’s chief executive officer Christian Klein. The letters are similar in their appeals, and both request an end to business relationships in Russia in response to the current invasion of Ukraine by the country. In the letter sent to Oracle’s leadership, Fedorov said, “Ukraine is now on the frontline of the defense of the principles of democracy and freedom in the face of the war waged by [the] Russian Federation....

I look around the world, I listen to what people say, and, too often, murmur to myself: “Oh, why?” I’m especially troubled by boastiness. You know, when football coaches or CEOs insist on claiming big things while your own ears and mind whisper: “Wait a minute. Are you sure about that?” My ears and mind whispered quite loudly when I heard United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby claim his airline’s goal was “to really establish ourselves as the biggest and the best airline in the history of aviation....

Alena Yarmosky, spokesperson for Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, said the governor has been briefed on the attack, which currently affects Virginia’s Division of Legislative Automated Systems, the General Assembly’s IT agency. Yarmosky did not respond to requests for comment about the specifics of the attack. Legislative leaders in the state were emailed about the incident and told that hackers attacked the state systems on Friday. The attack took down the website for the Division of Capitol Police, and all of the internal systems for bill drafting or bill referrals were hit hard during the ransomware incident, according to The Associated Press....

Speaking with ZDNet, Vogels elaborated on what it takes to build a “truly smart” robot. “I think it starts with being able to collect data that you have, that understands what’s happening,” he said. “Just having the data about, let’s say, the whole production line that you’re trying to introduce robots into.” With the right data, Vogels said, manufacturers can forgo common but potentially costly practices, such as “stopping the line” when a defect is spotted....

Also known as computational biology, bioinformatics is involved in developing medications, genetic research, agricultural productivity, and public health policies. Potential employment areas span agriculture and wildlife, computer and data science, pharma and biotech, and the public sector and academia. Job titles in the field include: Bioinformatics software engineerClinical bioinformatics data analystComputational biologistGenomics specialist Research scientist Read on to discover available degree levels, knowledge and skills that help students succeed, and where you might fit in the field of biometrics....

Like other standardized tests in higher education — the SAT and the GRE, for example — the MCAT is part of a larger package of information that schools use to screen applicants. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) develops and manages the test. Keep reading to learn more about the MCAT, when you should take the exam, and if you need to take it. Key highlights about the MCAT What knowledge does the MCAT test for?...

Users will have a choice for how the encryption key used is stored. The simplest is for users to keep a record of the random 64-digit key themselves, akin to how Signal handles backups, which they would need to re-enter to restore a backup. The alternative would be for the random key to be stored in WhatsApp’s infrastructure, dubbed as a hardware security module-based (HSM) Backup Key Vault that would be accessible via a user-created password....

We termed the new era, not as “The Cloud Default,” but “The Hybrid Default,” because, as enterprises got beyond those obvious born-in-the-cloud use cases to the foundational systems that keep the lights on, that their cloud decisions would have to grow more nuanced. They want the operational simplicity that cloud-native deployment can convey. In some cases, the public cloud would be the right path, but they would need to find a way to make it work on-premises for many cases....